Learned something today

Originally posted by Pinhook:

The address [by Obama] is to the Arabic-speaking world, half of which is Egyptian. And a tenth of Egyptians are Christian, the Coptic variety that's been around a long time.

To conflate the Arabic-speaking world with the "Muslim world" is a common error, that even this journalist makes.

Indonesians -- the largest Muslim country in the world -- pay about as much attention to Egypt as we Americans pay to that other large "Christian" country, Brazil.