Poll reveals Qaeda’s unpopularity among Muslims

An opinion survey has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Muslims in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan think poorly of al-Qaeda. The opinion poll, whose results came out on Monday, had been conducted by the Washington-based think tank, Pew Research Center through face-to-face interviews with 4,500 adult Muslims in those countries from March 13 to April 19. The results showed that al-Qaeda is most unpopular in Lebanon where 98 percent of the people questioned had an unfavorable opinion of the terrorist group. In Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt respectively 77, 73, and 71 percent of the respondents expressed negative views of al-Qaeda. In Pakistan, 55 percent of those polled had negative opinions about the group.