The '''fifty-seven states''' flap involved a remark [[Barack Obama]] made about how many states he had visited on the campaign trail. Although he may have meant 47, critics noted that there are 57 [[Islamic]] [[nation state|states]] and used the remark or slip as evidence of Obama being secretly Muslim. | The '''fifty-seven states''' flap involved a remark [[Barack Obama]] made about how many states he had visited on the campaign trail. Although he may have meant 47, critics noted that there are 57 [[Islamic]] [[nation state|states]] and used the remark or slip as evidence of Obama being secretly Muslim. |