Western View
of Muslims
Muslim View
of Westerners
% %
Selfish 35 68
Violent 50 66
Greedy 20 64
Immoral 23 61
Arrogant 39 57
Fanatical 58 53
From Muslim-Western Tensions Persist, p.4When people in the West grasp that Islam is a doctrine
of permanent war to subjugate all us Kuffar, perhaps our
hostility will reach the levels of enmity with which they
regard us. It is only in the characteristic of “fanatical” that
we Kuffar regarded Muslims as worse people than Muslims
regarded us unbelievers. Despite the hundreds of terrorist
attacks by Muslims in recent decades, we Kuffar still do
not dislike Muslims anywhere near as much as Muslims
dislike Kuffar. In the same report, when it comes to asking
Muslims and Westerners who was to blame for bad relations
between Muslims and Westerners, Muslims blame us far
more than we blame Muslims.^162 So, once again, Muslims