# Report shows increase in support for radicals Islamics after US actions

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2004-12-03T01:35:15Z


Report of the US Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication September 2004 (PDF)American direct intervention in the Muslim World has paradoxically elevated the stature of and support for radical Islamists, while diminishing support for the United States to single-digits in some Arab societies.

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What was a marginal network is now an Ummah-wide movement of fighting groups.  Not only has there been a proliferation of “terrorist” groups: the unifying context of a shared cause creates a sense of affiliation across the many cultural and sectarian boundaries that divide Islam.We knew this would be true, but this comes from a US Defense Science Board under the US Secretary of Defense. The report also explains that it is not America's freedoms that they hate (as many Americans believe), but America's foreign policy.



via rojisan  via The Guardian





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