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In the wake of the devastating terror attacks of September 11, 2001 against the United States of America, the Islamic world has openly sided with the United States against the terrorists. The popular misconception in the United States, that all Muslims are blood thirsty killers who hate America and Americans, is easily proven to be false by the outpouring of sympathy and cooperation offered by the Islamic world since September 11. This response is not solely confined to states with whom the United States gets along, but every state with a Muslim majority in the world, with but two exceptions (Afghanistan and Iraq). Even states that the United States views as hostile - Libya, Syria, Sudan, - have not only condemned the attacks, but have offered their resources on behalf of the United States led effort against international terrorism.

This site is meant to illustrate the international reaction to the terror attacks of the fifty one countries around the world in which Muslims constitute the largest single religious community. In many of these instances, the American press has not gone out of its way to show these state's responses, or the American reaction to these state's positions. Certain major events, such as the lifting of sanctions against Sudan and Pakistan or the signing of the free trade agreement between the U.S. and Jordan have received some press, nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the detailed responses of most of the Islamic world. At the same time, the Western press has afforded disproportionate coverage of those tiny minorities who publicly praised the attacks, from the thirty children in occupied Al Quds (Jerusalem) to the couple hundred demonstrators in Somalia and Nigeria. The purpose of this site is to set the record straight and to show that the United States does have the sympathy and cooperation of the vast majority of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims.

Each country is given a page. First there is a quick demographic note to illustrate the numbers of Muslims in that state. The information presented in this quick note comes from "The World Almanac 2000" and therefore may be a bit dated, but still illustrates the basic point intended. Next follows an official statement from the government concerned obtained from some official governmental source whenever possible. After that are a series of related news stories located online with links. In that this site is largely directed toward Americans, it is exclusively English language, although many of the linked news sources have articles in other languages as well.

Please explore the site in detail and forward it to friends and colleagues. Feel free to link this site to any other, extract excerpts, or forward the URL to other interested parties. Be sure to also visit regularly as new additions will be added weekly. We also ask for any appropriate links to online news stories and statements for addition to the site later.