His statements make sense because if you ask a devout muslim, anywhere in the world who the are, he or she will not say that they are an American, Mexican, Indonesian or an Arab, they will say that they are muslims. The religion is the identification and not their country of origin because their religion believes that the whole world is THEIRS and we who do not believe in mo-mo will either convert, be subjugated or killed.
Exactly. Muslims don't see national borders as important at all. There is only the "muslim ummah" or world under islam, and the infidel world outside of the "ummah."
They divide the world not into nations, but into the "dar al islam" or house of islam, and the "dar al harb" or house of war, meaning, the target of muslims, to convert to islam.