{"id":1889,"date":"2012-05-01T08:48:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2012-05-01T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:48:25","slug":"majority-of-muslims-do-not-like-bin-laden-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/05\/majority-of-muslims-do-not-like-bin-laden-al-qaeda\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Muslims Do Not Like bin Laden, al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewglobal.org\/2012\/04\/30\/on-anniversary-of-bin-ladens-death-little-backing-of-al-qaeda\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Al-Qaeda0001.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year after the death of its leader, al Qaeda is widely unpopular among Muslim publics. A new poll by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Global Attitudes Project, conducted March 19 to April 13, 2012, finds majorities \u2013 and mostly large majorities \u2013 expressing negative views of the terrorist group in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>In Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals, 13% of Muslims hold a favorable view of al Qaeda, 55% an unfavorable view, and roughly three-in-ten (31%) offer no opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Support for the organization is in the single digits among Turkish and Lebanese Muslims. In Jordan, just 15% express a positive opinion, essentially unchanged from last year, but down significantly from 34% in 2010. \u00a0Al Qaeda receives its highest ratings in Egypt, where 21% hold a favorable and 71% an unfavorable opinion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewglobal.org\/2012\/04\/30\/on-anniversary-of-bin-ladens-death-little-backing-of-al-qaeda\/\">On Anniversary of bin Laden\u2019s Death, Little Backing of al Qaeda | Pew Global Attitudes Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after the death of its leader, al Qaeda is widely unpopular among Muslim publics. A new poll by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Global Attitudes Project, conducted March 19 to April 13, 2012, finds majorities \u2013 and mostly large majorities \u2013 expressing negative views of the terrorist group in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[390,10,319,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}