Lawrence Wright's Trip to al-Qaeda | The American Prospect

"America, in recent years, has also become the bete noire for many moderate Muslims who believe the United States is complicit in or responsible for more modern humiliations: our stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia, our unconditional support of Israel, our apparent lack of interest in the plight of Palestinians, our willingness to support anti-democratic rulers in exchange for oil. They resent the image portrayed on Western television of Muslims as terrorists, and feel trapped between the radical Islamists and Washington."

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