Muslim does not equal Arab

The BBC seem a little confused this morning. Last week they were happy to refer to Barack Obama's speech to the "Muslim world", despite there being no such entity. Today the Radio 4 news in reporting Benjamin Netanyahu' speech, decided that Barack Obama's speech was to the "Arab world". I would have thought that someone at the BBC would have known that whilst most Arabs are Muslims, not all Muslims are Arabs. Most Iranians would not be happy to referred to as Arabs, I believe the Arab population of Iran is around 3% of the total. Likewise the Muslim countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan are not Arab countries and I doubt that the citizens of Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, consider themselves Arabs. I won't even start to differentiate between Muslims and Arabs in Africa.

Whilst the BBC seem ready to pontificate on matters of international relations, I might take them slightly more seriously if they seemed to understand the basics.