Egyptians Hate America and Want Islamic Rule (Zogby, Pew Polling Data)

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[HollyB]

Thanks for the thread. Incredible numbers.

I’ve been looking ove an article by memri which discusses anti-us views during these events:

The columnists also criticized the U.S.’s confused reaction to Egyptian protests, saying that although America’s goal had been to win favor with the protesters and to keep Egypt in the U.S. camp, its reaction had achieved the opposite effect: it had enraged the Egyptians and caused America to lose its allies.

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4995.htm

[HollyB]

“The American administration should not have been confounded by the intifada of the Egyptian youth. One would expect a [country] that has been the sole power in the world since the fall of the Soviet Union... to be capable of gauging the sentiment of the Egyptian public and of following the political trends in the most important country in the region... where it has numerous strategic and [other] essential interests... A country of this caliber should not have [demonstrated] such bewilderment. The American president should not have lost his head and cheered Dr. ElBaradei, who, after being absent from Egypt for many years, returned from Vienna in haste with the dream of being the Khomeini of the Egyptian revolution...

“Some assess that... the American president, who is striving to improve his standing ahead of the next elections... wanted to prove himself to the American voters by presenting himself as a hero [capable of] bringing reforms and democracy to the Arab Middle East without tanks and wars, and without shedding [even] a single drop of American blood, as opposed to George Bush...

“Perhaps the American president… did not anticipate that his populist, inciting statements and declarations would yield the opposite result [of what he intended]... His hasty statements did not win the favor of Egypt or its people, [but, on the contrary,] enraged them and led them to reject [his words] and all outside intervention in their domestic affairs... In light of all this, there is nothing left to say to the Americans but what ‘Abd Al-Rahman Al-Dakhil [founder of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba in Andalusia in eighth century CE], said when asked why the Umayyad [empire] had collapsed: ‘You abandoned your friends and lost them; you tried to curry favor with your enemies but failed to win them over.’ Naturally, at the top of the [U.S.’s] list of enemies are the Muslim Brotherhood and all those who have good, strong relations with Iran.”[4]