Muslims Wary of U.S. Intentions, Study Finds
From Times Wire Reports
The United States is losing the war of ideas in the Islamic world, failing to elucidate its policies to Muslims wary of American intentions, a Pentagon advisory panel said.
Muslims object to “what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel” and support for what they “see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the [Persian] Gulf states,” the panel’s report says. Thus, talk about “bringing democracy to Islamic societies ... is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy,” it says.
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