his faith is muslim. and i personally believe whenever he says something, he means it in an ironic or sarcastic sense. iow, hes being his usual nasty prick(ly) hateful self.
Let's approach it from any angle, there is no evidence that he is actually trying to improve anything in a positive sense. No one with a modicum of experience in inter-group relations will find in their ken any example of his tactics improving inter-group relations. No one!
He skates because the journalistic profession in America has been dumbed down by politically correct bullies, who have intimidated press corps along with academics to the point where they ignore what everyone of us learned in school--not from the teachers--but just through interaction with others in the classroom.
We are all different--not a bad thing--but an obvious thing. That some do better than others in this or that subject or line of interest, is not a grievance. That people who seek to make it a grievance have either forgotten what they like everyone else really knows--at least sub-consciously--or they are simply up "to no good."
The true grievance is against the sociopathic "Pied Pipers" who lead the impressionable among us down the Primrose path to self-destructive behavior. That is Obama's art form--it has historic parallels, to be sure.