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I’ve got this degree now, I’d probably better get my facts straight.  Naaaahhhh!

Huh?  In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

Let’s do some math here.  According to the 2007 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, just 0.6% of American’s consider themselves Muslim.  Our population is 306 million, making the Muslim population about 1.8 million.

According to data on Wikipedia (crunched from several sources) that would put America at 59th in terms of pure population.  We fall to about 120th on the list of the world’s countries if you look at Muslims as a percentage of the larger population.

So, how exactly did he come to this conclusion about the US being such a world powerhouse of Islam?  Who knows.  (Unless it has something to do with him finally admitting that his father and grandmother — at a minimum — were, in fact, Muslim.)