The President was on French television the other night, and said that the United States could be considered as one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.

Of course, the US ranks about 54th in the world, with a marginal 0.8% of our population being Muslim.

The Czar loves Democratic math. Maybe he meant if we include all other religions and non-believers, and included Russia and Germany and Indonesia. Or maybe he meant in the World of the Western Hemisphere.

No doubt we’ll have a spokesperson tell us what he meant to say any day now, or perhaps the President is really as ignorant as he looked in the nomination process when he did not remember how many states there are, or during the Sotomayor introduction when he forgot how old our country is.

Or maybe he meant what many Dems believe, that a minority makes up a majority any time it is convenient, like in California when the gay community cannot seem to comprehend why they lack enough votes to legalize same-sex marriage.

Or perhaps it is all just racism by people who can actually add, or maybe the lack of a major Muslim American population is a problem inherited from his predecessor.

Whatever. While the POTUS travels extensively on his grand tour of the Muslim world, after bowing to Saudi royalty, and assuring the world that American values and Islamic values are synonymous, he can talk about the textbooks.

Ah yes, the Saudi textbooks, which three Democrats secretly (but rightly) have condemned and asked the Saudi government to address. These state-issued textbooks instruct children to kill infidels in open war, and that Jews are pigs, Christians apes, and Shiites and Sunni are non-Wahhabi unworthy of respect. Maybe, you know, we could take that hate-filled crap out of your public schools? See, that’s real racism, since many of your supporters evidently cannot see the difference.

Whew. Fortunately, Saudi Ambassador Prince Turki al-Faisal assured American audiences that they have at long last removed every shred of hatred and intolerance from these textbooks. Unfortunately, he said this in 2006. As the government did in 2005. Or perhaps they merely left in the parts the government very much agrees with?

So, Mr. President, we have a bit of a conundrum. Is America a country that views Jews and Christians as pigs and apes? And regards Shiite and Sunni as infidels, worthy of disrespect or even killing?

No, not all Muslims do. Just the ones you bowed to.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.