Thread:ABN 7854/@comment-3247345-20120504055007/@comment-3247345-20120506040915

One problem in my country is that we don't know a lot about the people of Pakistan (that's true about other countries as well). A lot of people in my country don't like the government of Pakistan because they don't do enough to fight terrorism. Like when we went into your country and killed bin Laden last year, a lot of people were mad at the government of Pakistan because they think they should have known that bin Laden was there since it was in an army town. The reason we didn't tell Pakistan about the the raid was because we were afraid that certain people in Pakistan's government would tell bin Laden so he could escape. I think for the most part people simply don't know a lot about Pakistan. But the government of Pakistan has a pretty bad reputation in the US because of certain parts of it supporting the terrorists that are killing American soldiers in Afghanistan.

As for Muslims in general, we mostly like them. There's a few people in my country that think all Muslims are terrorists, but there's not that many of them. The United States has a lot of Muslim friends in Turkey for example. American's like Muslims as long as they don't use their religon to justify violence. The problem is the media in the United States only talks about Muslims doing bad things, and they never talk about it when Muslims do good things, so I think that distorts the picture of the Muslim world in the US. But when I talk to people like you in an open and honest manner, it just proves that there are a lot of Muslims out there that are good. I think the government (of both the US and Pakistan) stir up hate between the US and the Muslims for political reasons.