Washington Times ... While in Japan last month at a Group of Seven conference to discuss the global economy, President Obama took time to criticize Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He claimed world leaders “are rattled by [Mr. Trump] — and for good reason. 

A lot of the proposals he has made display either ignorance of world affairs, or a cavalier attitude, or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what is required to keep America safe.”

Well, isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black.

Before use of this idiom triggers senseless rage from overly sensitive and politically correct readers for being racist — a knee-jerk reaction all too common in society today — please note authority exists that it is not.

As if his term in office has not been riddled with numerous examples suggestive of his own cavalier attitude (the nonchalant dismissal of ISIS as the “JV” team) or his exhaustive use of tweets and headlines (earning him the title of “the first social media president”), Mr. Obama also showed his ignorance of world affairs only a few days earlier.

On May 13, Mr. Obama welcomed leaders from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland to the White House. He suggested if we allowed these Nordic countries to control the world, “they could clean things up.”

He added, “I really do believe that the world would be more secure and more prosperous if we just had more partners like our Nordic countries. There have been times where I’ve said, ‘Why don’t we just put all these small countries in charge for a while?’ “

Mr. Obama’s comment clearly shows he is oblivious to problems the Nordic countries are experiencing as a result of having opened their doors to Muslim immigration.

For all five Nordic countries, Muslim immigration has been a total disaster.

Immigration in Sweden has made it the rape capital of the world. According to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, more than 1,000 rapes were reported during the first seven months of 2013 alone — and of these, over 300 involved girls under 15.

Shockingly, Sweden’s leftist government, blinded by political correctness, refuses to report what senior police officials anonymously will: The vast majority of rapists are Muslim asylum seekers.

It is frightening that despite these high numbers, the actual figures may even be 400-900 percent higher. This is because, the council reports, “as few as 10-20 percent of all sexual offenses are reported to the police.”

At a Conservative Political Action Conference on May 3, British politician Paul Weston — who fears within five years Muslim immigration will change his country forever as democratic values are surrendered for Shariah-compliant ones — noted Sweden has already surrendered and is a lost cause.

Muslim immigrants learned in the late 20th century the Nordic states were offering the best benefits in Europe. However, by the dawn of the new millennium, Denmark had made some startling discoveries:

• While only composing 5 percent of the population, Muslims consumed 40 percent of the welfare benefits.

• While representing a relatively small portion of the population, Muslims made up a majority of Denmark’s convicted rapists — the targets of whom were almost always non-Muslim females.

• Muslim populations opposed assimilation.

• As the Muslim population grew, so too did anti-Semitism.

• Muslim leaders openly declared it was their intention, once Muslim population numbers supported it, to impose Islamic law in the country.

Norway determined the cost of processing Muslims into the workforce or educational system is more than $700,000 per immigrant. It also determined it was not getting much bang for its buck since, two years after entry, few immigrants were performing useful work.

Problems associated with Muslim immigration have been less noticeable in Iceland than in any other Nordic country. But this is only due to its late entry into the Muslim immigration game. Yet, despite Iceland being the Nordic rookie, its Muslim population has grown in leaps and bounds, causing Icelanders to now “feel the pain” their neighbors do.

Discussions last year in Finland on opening its doors to increased numbers of Syrian refugees put the focus on Muslims there who also were opposed to assimilation. One member of Parliament noted this has created a risk where “society begins to play by the rules of the Muslim minority rather than expecting the minority to play by the rules of the society.” 

Another parliamentarian added, “This nightmare called multiculturalism we will fight until the end for our homeland and one true Finnish nation.”

Muslim immigration is causing Finland, like the other Nordic states, to undergo a transformation that will change Europe forever — and not for the better.

It is incredible that Mr. Obama would even suggest the Nordic countries — with all their ongoing social turmoil — should “control the world” to “clean things up.” While ignoring the demons Muslim immigration has introduced there, he continues to call for an increase in Muslim immigration quotas here.

The Nordic nations are allowing their democracies to go the way of the wooly mammoth — with Mr. Obama singing their praises.