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WHAT DO MUSLIMS THINK OF
OSAMA BIN LADEN?
[Courtesy Al-Ahram, Cairo,
Egypt.]
[Excerpt]
[Sent by Ms. Dallenbach, California.]
In early June, the respected Pew Research Centre
in the
United States
released the latest of its global opinion
surveys, which polled more than
15,000 people in 21 countries in the wake of the
invasion and conquest of
Iraq.
The results attracted considerable
attention in the American press. A
primary focus of press reports was the surge of
anti-American sentiment in
the Muslim world. In traditionally pro-American
Jordan, 97 per cent of
those polled opposed America's
"war on terror",
while, in NATO-member
Turkey,
83 per cent expressed an unfavourable
opinion of the United States.
The selection of Osama Bin Laden by the publics
of five of the eight Muslim
countries surveyed
(Indonesia,
Jordan, Morocco,
Pakistan
and
Palestine)
as
one of the three political leaders they would
most trust to "do the right
thing" in world affairs did not go unnoticed.
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