{"id":21163,"date":"2012-07-23T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T10:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=21163"},"modified":"2012-07-23T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T10:54:23","slug":"extremist-groups-rejected-by-islamic-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/extremist-groups-rejected-by-islamic-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremist Groups &#8216;Rejected&#8217; By Islamic Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/2012\/07\/extremist-groups-rejected-by-islamic-countries\/muslims_population\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21165\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21165\" title=\"Muslims_population\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Muslims_population-e1343040827499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Muslims_population-e1343040827499.jpg 635w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Muslims_population-e1343040827499-634x333.jpg 634w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Muslims_population-e1343040827499-570x300.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pew Foundation has recently released a report entitled <em>Most Muslims Want Democracy, Personal Freedoms, and Islam in Political Life<\/em> on July 10, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewglobal.org\/2012\/07\/10\/most-muslims-want-democracy-personal-freedoms-and-islam-in-political-life\/\">Click here<\/a> to read the overview and gain access to a free pdf of the full report.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what they say about Muslims views of extremists\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtremist groups are largely rejected in predominantly Muslim nations, although significant numbers do express support for radical groups in several countries. For instance, while there is no country in which a majority holds a favorable opinion of the Palestinian organization Hamas, it receives considerable support in Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The militant Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah receives its highest overall ratings in Tunisia, where nearly half express a positive opinion. Sizable minorities in both Jordan and Egypt also have a favorable view, but Hezbollah\u2019s image has been declining in both countries in recent years. In its home country, views about Hezbollah are sharply divided along sectarian lines: 94% of Shia, 33% of Christians, and 5% of Sunnis give the group favorable marks.<\/p>\n<p>Across all six nations, less than 20% have a positive opinion about al Qaeda or the Taliban. In Turkey and Lebanon, support for these groups is in the single digits. However, fully 19% of Egyptians rate these extremist organizations favorably.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DANIEL M. VARISCO:  A recently released survey by the influential Pew Foundation has found that support among ordinary citizens for extremists is very low.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":21165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,82,60,482],"tags":[169,18300,227,2734,91,18305,18309,191,1374,18322,18325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}