The TimesOnline (found via memeorandum) has an article about the very high levels of anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. Evidently, the War on Terror is “radicalizing” people — particularly (and to me, oddly) those who are more educated or wealthy.
However, this was the paragraph that jumped out at me:
Religion was found to have little to do with radicalisation or antipathy towards Western culture. Muslims were condemnatory of promiscuity and a sense of moral decay. What they admired most was liberty, its democratic system, technology and freedom of speech.
Hmph. Can’t think why they’d see a problem with a society that idolizes drug-riddled, psychologically broken people who’d do better in a padded room. Can you?