Muslim
World More Anti-American Than Ever
Candidate Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan
boasted, “Yes we can.” Then the new
President promised a 2009 Egyptian audience “a new
beginning between the United States and Muslims,”
and in November 2009 he claimed, “We’ve restored
America’s standing in the world.” But
Obama’s boast, his promise and his claim have
crumbled across the Muslim world, and so has
America’s influence. Thirty-one months into
Obama’s presidency, relations with the Muslim world
are the worst ever. Both Muslim public opinion
and the deteriorating situation in most Islamic
countries evidence anti-Americanism that screams,
“No he can’t.”