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Anti-American Terrorism
Anti-American terrorism is primarily fueled by foreign policy and a legacy of interventionalism, rather than a distrust in democracy or “western values.”
- Pew Research: Kohut 05
- An analysis of Middle Eastern perceptions and their relations to terrorism
- Found that the U.S. is less popular in the Middle East than in any other part of the world and that “anti-Americanism around the world is driven first and foremost by opposition to U.S. foreign policy.”
- High pluralities in all Middle Eastern countries surveyed cited opposition to the U.S. based on:
- The war in Iraq
- The war on terror
- the perception that America acts unilaterally on the world stage
- U.S. policy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Also found that Middle Easterners do not hate so-called “Western values” nor cite that as a point of opposition against the U.S.
- “overwhelming majorities of Jordanians, Lebanese, and Moroccans say democracy is not just a Western way of governance, and that it can work in their countries”
- Pew Research 05
- Support for democracy is high in Middle Eastern countries; the public generally does not have a hatred for perceived “Western values”
- The following proportions of the public say that democracy can work well and is not just for the West:
- Morocco (83%)
- Lebanon (83%)
- Jordan (80%)
- Indonesia (77%)
- Turkey (48%)
- Pakistan (43%)