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Survey Exposes Rift Between U.S. & Muslim World

HeadlineOct 02, 2003

A survey by the Bush administration has found the image of the U.S. in Muslim countries has rapidly deteriorated over the past years. One researcher John Zogby, said the standing of the U.S. in the Muslim and Arab world could not be any worse than it is. A panel appointed by Bush found that two thirds of Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan felt than in March 2003, the U.S. posed a greater threat than Iraq. The percentage of Indonesians who felt favorably about the U.S. dropped from about 60 percent to 15 percent over the past year.

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