Source of Muslim Pique

Steven Kull has an article for CNN World on the topic of why Muslims continue to be mad at the United States. He claims to have done many focus groups in the Muslim world on this topic and the answer he has come up with is interesting.

Essentially, he finds what peeves Muslims is our insistence that religion be a private matter, not the basis of government. They want to base their government on the tenets of Islam.

Muslims are offended that we see this as theocracy, old-fashioned, what we did centuries ago. There is more to the issue but U.S. support for those elements in their societies which want the state to be secular is repellent to many of them.

It is a long article, and possibly wrong to boot, but it does explain some facts on the ground.