jeudi 1 juillet 2010

Obama déçoit les musulmans ...

Si le Président Barack Obama lui-même finit par décevoir les musulmans, on est en droit de se demander qui donc ne les déçoit pas ?  On parle de nouveau de ressentiment et de défiance.  A l'inverse, ailleurs dans le monde le Président reste très populaire.  La cote de popularité des Etats-Unis s'est aussi nettement améliorée, mais pas dans les pays musulmans ... 

"Les pays étudiés exprimant la plus grande défiance au locataire de la Maison Blanche sont la Turquie (65% d'opinions défavorables), la Jordanie (64%), le Pakistan (60%) et l'Egypte (59%), tous des alliés des Etats-Unis dont les populations sont très majoritairement musulmanes." (AFP)

Source: Politico (Survey: Obama disappoints Muslims) Extraits:

President Barack Obama’s efforts to improve diplomatic relations with Muslim nations have not translated into favorable images of the United States in key Muslim countries, according to a survey released Thursday by the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

The Pew Global Attitudes survey found that the popularity of the United States remained low, and in some cases decreased, because of continued disagreements over U.S. policies. The results show the limits of Obama’s approach if it is not tied to concrete changes in policy.

In Turkey and Pakistan, only 17 percent of the public hold favorable views of the United States, the Pew survey found. Obama’s popularity ratings fell from 41 percent to 31 percent in Turkey, while the ratings plunged to single digits among Pakistani Muslims, from 13 percent in 2009 to a mere 8 percent this year.


Obama’s June 2009 speech to the Muslim world in Cairo generated cautious optimism about his presidency. The latest Pew survey found that has mostly evaporated.

In Egypt, U.S. favorability ratings dropped 10 percentage points from 27 percent to 17 percent — the lowest since Pew began surveys in that country in 2006. [...]

The survey’s findings reflect a general resentment in Muslim nations of unilateral actions by the United States, said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. “We don’t like Osama bin Laden, terrorism and the United States acting unilaterally on these efforts,” he said, summarizing how Muslims viewed U.S. policy in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks."

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