The image of the United States remains overwhelmingly negative in most of the predominantly Muslim countries surveyed, a latest global poll revealed on its website. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project, in Jordan, one of the key regional allies of the United States, 79 per cent respondents have a negative light of the world power. Only 19 per cent hold positive views. The survey was conducted among more than 24,000 people in 24 countries between March 17 and April 21. In Egypt, another key ally of the United States in the Middle East, 22 per cent of respondents expressed a favourable view of America, while 39 per cent saw the United States as an “enemy” and 19 percent as a “partner.” Turkey, also a main ally of the United States in this region, had 12 per cent of respondents expressing a favourable view of the United States, with 70 per cent seeing America as “an enemy.” However, another major trend highlighted by the poll was that most countries held the American people in a more favourable light than the nation itself.
AMERICA’S NEGATIVE IMAGE IN MUSLIM WORLD
The image of the United States remains overwhelmingly negative in most of the predominantly Muslim countries surveyed, a latest global poll revealed on its website.
