Tomorrow, Thursday, President Obama is presenting his speech to the Muslim Nation. This is how his handlers and he, himself, have characterized it. In addition, during his interview in London, Obama described the United States of American as an Islamic Nation. What are the connections between these two representations?
As far as the second observation is concerned, it is an empirical fact that the United States is not a Muslim nation. Muslims make up only about 2% of the American population and historically their contribution has been negligible. By numbers and consequence America has nothing to do with Islam. Can Obama be so ignorant as to make this kind of factual mistake, possible; but let's consider alternative explanations.
On the other hand, America is spiritually Muslim to the Islamic religion that views all of the world as the ownership of the one true religion, Islam. Within this context Obama is correctly describing American as would any believing Muslim. To a Muslim there is no State as such. The political state that is recognized within the context of American political ideas. These are ideas that came out of the Christian Anglo-Saxon social contract theory of the state. In Islam there is not political state or nation, only the Nation of Islam, with the Arabs as the top dogs (no pun intended).
For Muslims, Islam's 1.2 billion adherents are one nation, united. That is the only organization that is recognized as existing physically on earth as a nationality. The State in traditional liberalism is meaningless. To Obama the American nation does not exist and holds no loyalty. For him there is an American political state; but not a nation. (This by the way is true for his perception of the European states and other political liberal state organizations around the world, including Israel.) As a Muslim, it makes sense then for Obama to emphasize the notion of America as an Islamic nation. For him American as a unique nation is a meaningless construction; only as a political state, which is obviously changeable and therefore has no permanence.
This is consistant with his speech to the Islamic Nation. The President will ramble in his usual way for 45 minutes surrounded by the most anti-Jewish and anti-Christians symbolism and individuals alive in the today's world. All people of the Judeo-Christian tradition should be disgusted by this spectacle. The only new fact will be the West's recognition that Islamic Nationhood trumps Western Statehood. This is already occurring all over Europe and in Detroit, Michigan with the demand that Muslims have self-governance under Sharia law. This places Muslims in a situation similar to the status of Native-Americans, as a separate nation within the American State.
The most important fact to emerge from his speech will be a recognition of Islam as a total nation. It is America's recognition that Islam transcends the State and all of its adherents are united as one nation. Their sole loyalty and existence determined and directed by Islam. This is why neither Obama, nor anyone else, would think of making a speech to the "Christian Nation." It would incomprehensible and meaningless. Christianity is not a nation; it is a religion.
Islam to Obama is a nation and it is his nation. Throughout his life this has been the one consistent truth. It is now being made public. Sadly very little of the main stream media recognize it for what it is; because they do not understand the distinction between a nation and a state; but, Obama does. The first hint for the American Nation's citizens should have been when he anounced during the campaign the he will give an address to the Muslims as a total nation.