Muslim World Largely Anti-American

Yahoo! News reported Anti-American feelings are widespread in the Muslim world

I am shocked to hear that

and extend to U.S. consumer brands, according to a report released Wednesday. It suggested the U.S. burnish its image with a change in tone and by publicizing aid programs.

Should the taxpayers provide even more aid so that maybe they will be drinking a CocaCola the next time they fly airplanes into buildings?

The United States should emphasize its development aid to Muslim countries

Egypt gets as much foreign aid as Israel does. Do they give us as much support as we get from Israel?

rather than try to persuade Muslims to support U.S. policies in Iraq or in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to the Council on Foreign Relations report. The report, by Charney Research, is based on 14 focus groups conducted last December and January among college-educated men and women in Egypt, Morocco and Indonesia. Anger at U.S. foreign policy and at the U.S. government dominated spontaneous reactions in all three countries.

Charles Johnson: blogged And here’s a lovely footnote from a “focus group” apparently composed of logic-challenged Jew-hating lunatics:

Anti-Semitic stereotypes also were noted. Focus group members saw the United States and Israel as synonymous and estimated the proportion of Jews in the U.S. population at up to 85 percent; it is 2 percent.