Obama’s Cairo speech does little to nudge global Muslim views of America
President Barack Obama’s much-heralded speech last month in Egypt did little to change America’s image in the Muslim world, a survey released Thursday shows.
Muslim people were not so easily moved by Obama’s speech June 4, according to interviews conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project.
“This analysis suggests that the speech had little measurable impact on views of the U.S. or Obama himself,” the Pew researchers said.
“However,” they cautioned, “the pre-post comparisons were rudimentary ones that could only have detected a major swing in public opinion.”
But with Obama’s presidency, America’s image has improved drastically in most parts of the world, the poll found.
“In many countries, opinions of the United States are now about as positive as they were at the beginning of the decade before George W. Bush took office,” the report said.
Pew interviewed 27,000 people in 25 countries between May 18 and June 16. The margin of error is 2 percentage points in some nations and up to 4