Hardly – and I don’t say that to denigrate Islam. After all, even by the most generous estimate of the Muslim population in the US shows it to be under 1/40 of the population – and perhaps under 1/50.

But that does not keep Obama from making the following absurd claim.

The president said the United States and other parts of the Western world “have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam.”

“And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world,” Mr. Obama said.

Actually, the US barely scrapes its way into the top 40 in terms of its Muslim population.

But Obama does seem intent upon making much of his Muslim roots on this trip – after downplaying them during the campaign and accusing those who wanted to discuss them of engaging in religious bigotry.