Christian Skaug En Pew Global Attitudes måling viser synkende popularitet for Barack Obama i muslimske land. Befolkningen hadde forventninger til Obama etter Kairo-talen, forventninger som de synes ikke er blitt innfridd.
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.
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«The lack of support [for the United States] in the Muslim world is coincident with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,» said Andrew Kohut, president of Washington’s Pew Research Center, which conducts the annual survey. He spoke Thursday morning at a Monitor breakfast, where the survey was previewed.
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.
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But what appears to complicate the view of terrorism and efforts to stop it is when US policy and US leadership is brought into the mix.«Where we see the lack of support is for the US-led actions» like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said John Danforth, co-chair of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, at the Monitor breakfast. «The more concrete the actions, the less they like the US,» said the former US senator and former US ambassador to the United Nations.
Others cite a perceived lack of follow-through after the Cairo speech as the key factor in the dip America’s numbers took in Muslim countries.
«Cairo was a very large departure, a speech by an American president in a Muslim country … and there was a lot of hope that there would be a lot more intervention» by the US on issues of interest to Muslim populations, such as the Middle East peace process, said former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the breakfast. She cochairs the Global Attitudes Project.
Ser vi bort fra de muslimske land er fremdeles presidenten mer populær ute enn hjemme.
