Thursday, May 19, 2011

Obama's Tricky Muslim Courtship

Obama's Tricky Muslim Courtship: "Obama's Tricky Muslim Courtship
YahooNews (The Daily Beast) ^ | 5/17/2011 | David A. Graham

Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2011 5:29:48 AM by South40

NEW YORK – President Obama delivers a second speech to the Muslim world this week, but less than three years after they overwhelmingly voted for him, American Muslims are disappointed with his administration—and some are even nostalgic for George W. Bush.

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It’s not just foreign policy. Across the board, Muslims are expressing disappointment with Obama’s progress on issues relevant to them in the domestic policy realm. What they express is not so much anger as disillusionment, a recognition that the president hasn’t remade the political landscape for Muslims. (American Muslim opinions mirror international opinions. A Pew survey released Tuesday finds that citizens in majority Muslim countries remain skeptical of Obama.)"

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