According to a study of Muslim attitudes toward the United States, released in September 2004 by a federal advisory committee called the Defense Science Board: ” ‘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. …In the eyes of Muslims, the American occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq has not led to democracy there, but only [to] more chaos and suffering. …Muslims see American rhetoric about freedom and democracy as hypothetical and American actions as deeply threatening.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Antonia Juhasz, The Tyranny of Oil, Pages 377-378