Trump trolling Obama's speech

Gotta say ... that right there is a strike against that whole "religion of peace" thing, don't you think?

 

I saw that one coming.

 

On the contrary. He embraces all faiths and the attendant holidays!

 

I know whenever someone mentions "sports heroes," the first name that always comes to my mind is "Rasheed Wallace."

 

OK. So who are the current Muslim sports heroes?

Are kids today dreaming of growing up to be Ali?

He made it sound like they are commonly found in all walks of American life. It's the same message he tried to send when he previously said, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.”

Muslims make up a small percentage of Americans. Their influence on American culture has been minimal. They weren't a part of our nation's founding.

Even in the military, which Obama also mentioned, they are under represented, based on the percentage of Muslims in America.

Muslims make up just under 1% of our population. We have approximately 1.3M active duty military.

So, how many Muslims are serving?

Despite recruitment efforts, we "might" have 15,000 or so Muslims on active duty:

The military has worked hard to recruit more Muslims since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the number of Muslim troops, while still small, has been increasing. There were 3,409 Muslims in the active-duty military as of April 2008, according to Pentagon statistics.

Military personnel don't have to disclose their religions, and many officials believe the actual number of Muslim soldiers may be at least 10,000 higher than the Pentagon statistics. For instance, the military "Officer Record Brief" of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, said he had "no religious preference" and didn't identify him as a Muslim.

Even now, Muslim soldiers remain fairly rare in some parts of the military. At West Point, Army officials said there were just 24 Muslim cadets out of a total student body of 4,400. The Muslim cadets worship in an interfaith center on the bucolic New York campus, but don't have a dedicated mosque.

Muslim Population in the Military Raises Difficult Issues

 

That's not relevant to what he stated.

He didn't say that.

 

He doesn't count. We have established that.

 

If Presidential platitudes are going to be run through the fact-checking protocol, I have to believe that the enemy has won.