The following is from a story Media Matters for America put together. The story, from the Fox News Web site “The Fox Nation” maliciously mischaracterizes comments from President Obama and plays upon the post-9/11 paranoid fear some people in this country have of Muslims.
A Fox Nation headline stated, “Obama Says U.S. Is a ‘Muslim Country.’ ” However, the blog post to which the headline linked noted that President Obama said, “[I]f you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
President Obama does not say the United States of America is a Muslim country. He is merely explaining that if you look at the number of Muslims in the U.S. that the United States would be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. It’s an intentional smear designed to play up fears of Muslims and anti-Muslim sentiment coming off the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
This is another good catch by Media Matters.
Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/research/200906030002
