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...appealing to the Muslim world, Obama starts with an advantage over Rice: his biography, which ranges from his international family, which included Muslim members, to his opposition to the Iraq War. As early as April 2007, candidate Obama had ventured that his unique story "allows me to say things to them that other Presidents might not be able...
Even before he speaks, Obama has registered considerably higher approval ratings in Muslim countries than his predecessors. A recent Gallup poll found 1 in 4 Egyptians now approves of the U.S. leadership. Governments in the Arab world have welcomed the new tone adopted by Obama in his early outreach efforts. "They are discussing issues, showing their concerns, but they also listen," Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit said of Obama's team during a recent visit to Washington. "I think they are very much different from the Bush Administration." Last month, Jordan's King Abdullah II enthused...
...distinguish his Administration from its predecessor on issues ranging from treatment of detainees to an exit date in Iraq and a renewed push for Israeli-Palestinian peace, including a tougher line against Israel's expansion of West Bank settlements. But many of the policies that most aggrieve the Muslim world remain intact, and any changes will be slow in coming. Obama arrives in Cairo as the commander of a military whose deployment in Iraq continues, while its engagement in Afghanistan is steadily growing. Civilian death from U.S. air strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan continue to be a problem, while...
...party ahead of the ruling Labour Party, owing largely to voter disgust over the parliamentary-expenses scandal in London. In the Netherlands, the anti-Islamic Geert Wilders could see his Freedom Party overtake the Christian Democrats of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. (Read "Dutch Shrug for Anti-Muslim Film...
...official display of fraternity goes only so far in backing Obama's effort to "remake relations between the United States and countries in the Muslim world." Deep cultural and political divisions remain with a country that is, at once, one of America's closest economic and political allies in the region but also the principle exporter of an austere brand of Islam that has been exploited by jihadists around the world - and also the home country of most of the 9/11 hijackers. The Kingdom supported Operation Desert Storm in 1991, in which a U.S. multinational force drove Iraqi invaders...