Cross-culture wars

Islam | The Bush administration is reviewing its Iraq policy in 2007, but a longer-range dilemma looms: Are problems in American culture making the international war on terror harder to win? | Dinesh D'Souza

Some Muslims complain about U.S. activities in the Middle East or support for Israel, but an even more widespread concern is cultural: what Muslims see as an American descent into homosexual marriage, family breakdown, and a popular culture that is often morally repulsive. We in the United States know that there is a difference between movies/television/music and the way that Americans actually live, but many Muslims abroad see the America of popular culture as the real thing.

Surveys show more than 80 percent of people in Indonesia, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Egypt, and Turkey saying they want to protect their values from foreign assault. Their objection is not to McDonalds or Microsoft—they usually want more American companies, more American technology, and more free trade—but to what they see as degrading cultural products.

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