How Muslim world feels about Obama: disappointed

[T-Rock]

Looks like the strategy of appeasement isn’t working out so well…the more we give, the more they demand. Bombing Israel must be the only answer

How Muslim world feels about Obama: disappointed

By Howard LaFranchi - June 17, 2010

Barack Obama continues to be popular and to lift America’s image in much of the world, with the notable exception of Muslim countries – where the president is less favorably viewed than he was a year ago.

That is a key finding of the Pew Global Attitudes survey, an annual snapshot of world opinion that has chronicled the fall and rise of America’s image abroad in the years since 9/11 and, more recently, the advent of Mr. Obama’s presidency.

A year after Obama’s groundbreaking Cairo speech, in which he spoke to the world’s Muslim communities, the new survey finds a falloff in the numbers for America in Muslim countries. Major factors in the soured opinions, analysts say, are disappointment in the perceived lack of follow-through on Obama’s call at Cairo for better Western-Muslim relations and lingering disagreement with the US military’s intervention in Muslim countries…

…There’s also “disappointment” among Muslims about the US under Obama, Mr. Kohut says. Many have a perception, for example, that the US still “does not deal fairly” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Still, the survey of 22 countries finds that Obama is more popular abroad than at home – and that the president’s popularity continues to boost America’s global image. Views of the US have jumped in both China and Russia, while Obama remains highly popular in Western Europe. (Who’da thunk it)

But US favorability and confidence in Obama have slipped in a number of key Muslim-majority countries, the survey finds. In Egypt, those with a positive view of America dropped from 27 percent in 2009 to 17 percent in 2010 – the lowest level in five years (and thus lower than in a number of the years of George W. Bush’s presidency). Support for Obama in Turkey fell by a third, from 33 to 23 percent, and on the whole, Turkey – a NATO ally – sees the US as a potential military threat.

Source > http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politic...a-disappointed

[Utah Bob]

How Muslim world feels about Obama: disappointed

Finally. Something we agree on.

[Richard]

Some ffolkes will never be satisified no matter what anyone tries to do for/with them - all one can seek to do is 'the right thing' and try to adhere to the 11th Commandment** as much as possible.

However, YMMV...and so it goes...

Richard's $.02

** Thou shalt leave everyone else the hell alone.

[mark46th]

If Islam is complaining about something, we are doing it right. Of course, they would gripe if they were hung with a new rope...

[Peregrino]

I doubt they're anywhere near as disappointed as some of us are.

[mark46th]

Peregrino- Agree. Like why doesn't Iran's nuclear program more closely resemble Chernobyl?