Thursday December 19th, 2013             A project managed by
the Program on International Policy Attitudes  Muslims and
America: Internalizing the Clash of Civilizations  June 7, 2010
By Steven Kull  This paper was first presented at the Center for
the Study of Islam and Democracy's 11th Annual Conference on
April 28, 2010  Over the last six years I have been conducting a
major study of public opinion in the Muslim world. This study
included conducting focus groups in six majority Muslim
countries and numerous surveys in ten of them, including all of
the major ones. It also included a comprehensive analysis of
surveys conducted by other organizations.  It will not surprise
you to hear that there is quite a lot of anger toward America in
the Muslim world. This predated the Bush administration but
intensified after the Iraq war.  With the election of Barack
Obama there has been substantial hope that views of the US would
improve, just as they have in other parts of the world,
especially in the wake of the Cai