{"id":1591,"date":"2004-12-02T03:46:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T08:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/muslims-see-americans-as-strangely-narcissistic\/"},"modified":"2004-12-02T03:46:19","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T08:46:19","slug":"muslims-see-americans-as-strangely-narcissistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/muslims-see-americans-as-strangely-narcissistic\/","title":{"rendered":"muslims see americans as strangely narcissistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this is picking up a little traction,  probably with some help from sidney blumenthal at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,3604,1364249,00.html\">guardian<\/a> but i like to go to the sources&#8230; so once you&#8217;ve dropped in there for an editorial, here&#8217;s the report that got it all going&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acq.osd.mil\/dsb\/reports\/2004-09-Strategic_Communication.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication September 2004<\/a> [pdf].<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>What was a marginal network is now an Ummah-wide movement of fighting groups.  Not only has there been a proliferation of \u201cterrorist\u201d groups: the unifying context of a shared cause creates a sense of affiliation across the many cultural and sectarian boundaries that divide Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>strange, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeshops.com\/usingrights\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/iPanic_Orange.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is picking up a little traction, probably with some help from sidney blumenthal at the guardian but i like to go to the sources&#8230; so once you&#8217;ve dropped in there for an editorial, here&#8217;s the report that got it all going&#8230; Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication September 2004 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}