“The problem with this thinking is that the Muslim world’s position regarding the United States is rooted in fundamental political and most especially religious doctrines that will not be changed by people many of them regard as ‘infidels’ and worthy of death…. has the public relations campaign by some Muslim organizations in America converted us to the belief that they and Islam are mainly peaceful and interested in religious and political co-existence?”
Another right-wing pundit expresses scepticism regarding Karen Hughes’ mission to improve the image of the US among Muslims. Typically, the author makes use of material supplied by MEMRI in order to demonstrate the impossibility of reasoning with these Islamic fanatics.
Pedro Carmona writes: “Faisal Alam, a US queer activist of Pakistani origins and the founder of the group Al-Fatiha (made up of US queer Muslims), argues in the magazine Queer that the campaign to condemn Iran was organized without any effort to confirm the veracity of the information on the part of the groups which called for it, in contrast with the three major human rights organizations which advised of the imprecision of the information upon which the protests were based…. Alam frames his discussion of this manipulation in the context of increasing Islamophobia in Europe and North America, and of the ‘Axis of Evil’ campaign of the Washington government….”