In the campaign, the President of the United States selected, Barack Obama, promised to visit Muslim countries to express their vision.

Once elected, he again emphasized the importance of U.S. relations with Muslim countries. There are a number of Muslim countries that will be the first purpose of his visit, namely Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, and Indonesia. Hits it is very important, especially in the framework of direct vision of the government to listen to Obama to the Islamic world.

So far the dominant attitude of the Islamic world against Obama split in two. First, optimistic attitude. In many opportunities, the Islamic world in general welcomed its Obama as a step forward for democracy and political policies in the Middle East.

Hashem Soleh (2008) states, Obama is the hope for all parties to tegaknya democracy in the Middle East. In principle, Obama will change the design of democracy in general. Democracy is real and substantive has been providing the possibility of changes.

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Obama has a relationship with the father of Muslim blood is not clouded by some parties will issue a more positive policy towards the Middle East. Therefore, Hamas leaders welcomed the positive export Obama will bring updates on the political map in the Middle East.

Second, the pessimistic attitude. The most prominent state attitude is pessimistic about Iran, the main Ahmadinajed. U.S.-Iran relations that are less well in the last few years has caused the loss of confidence in the U.S.. Obama, according to Ahmadinajed, will not bring a significant change in the political Middle East and the Islamic world in general, especially Iran.

Although Obama in the campaign and political debate against John McCain, the attitudes to negotiate with Iran, Ahmadinajed have lost confidence in the U.S..

Suspicion of U.S. foreign policy is not what is not baseless. For, the U.S. has been proven to use “iron hand” to make war against any party that is considered to threaten and disrupt the political interests. War almost become the most important part in the exposition U.S. foreign policy.

In the second view, there are interesting things that are known to the public. Obama views on the Islamic world could actually start from the experiences and views about Indonesia. He has a record that will form a critical views against the Islamic world.

In the book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Obama gave a note how the U.S. image in the Islamic world, especially in Indonesia, which according to him the more exchange.

At least in a survey released in 2003, the public considers Osama bin Laden better than George W Bush.

As is the case in countries other Muslims, according to Obama, the country has shifted a significant growth in regard to the Islamic militant and fundamentalist. Obama added, Islamic parties to create one of the largest political bloc, with the agenda of the enforcement of Islamic Sharia.

Intervention Middle East, particularly Wahabi leaders, has been providing funds to build schools and mosques, which began work in rural areas.

Attitude is explicitly presented by Obama is a depiction of the wider Islamic world. Indonesia as the country with the largest Muslim population in the world can be the best example to see the reality of the Islamic world more broadly.

However, Obama also honest attempt to see the phenomenon. Send radicalism is not something taken for granted, but can also be read as the impact of the policies the U.S. foreign policy that is not right.

Since the Cold War, the U.S. has made mistakes began to feel that the impact now. Support to the Taliban when the Cold War against the Soviet Union has hit back the U.S. alone. Taliban is a “child” because the U.S. get their initial training and weapons support from the U.S..

In addition, the policy of war against Iraq is a mistake to extend the images that bad in the eyes of the U.S. world in general, and specifically the Islamic world. Policy has made terkonsolidasi and militant groups have strong reasons for doing aksinya. Do not close the possibility, seeds, the seeds of terrorism thus appear as a result of political policy that is wrong.

Obama wrote, “Sometimes, the U.S. foreign policy has been much opinion, while useful for national interests, aspirations and interests of other nations. In another time, these policies have been misguided, based on the assumptions wrong, so ignore the aspirations of other people, weakens the credibility and create a more dangerous world. ”

Of course, the views of honest and clear this will provide a more positive atmosphere for U.S. foreign policy in the future. Obama working to see the problems that occurred in the Islamic world and not from “the fact” that appears on the surface, but in fact something of a basis for the emergence and the fact that.

Objective view of the impact will be very exceptional because the U.S. involvement in creating democracy in the Islamic world is very important, either directly or indirectly. This means that the policy of the political diplomacy, negotiation, persuasion and will give the impression that the U.S. has the sincerity and honesty in building democracy.

Israel-Palestine

One of the things that are being awaited by the world of Islam is a matter of policy Obama Israel-Palestinian conflict. In the last few years have shown good signs of acute conflict resolution with regard to the way recognize the independence of Palestine and Israel. One nation with the two countries. In the Israel-Palestinian conflict, complexity is difficult to be solved in respect to the internal conflict between Fatah and Fax Fax Hamas. On 9 January the government later Mahmoud Abbas ended, while up to now has not held the election. Fax bersikukuh second in the attitudes of each subject of the election.

Nevertheless, the U.S. position in the Israel-Palestine problem is determining. For, Israel can not act without any U.S. support. Here’s where attitudes Obama awaited with hope worried by the Islamic world.

In the end, U.S. relations with the Islamic world must be mutualistik. On the one hand, the U.S. should be able to understand the root problems that caused the emergence of conflict, terrorism, and the crisis of democracy in the Islamic world, but on the other hand, the Islamic world must also have a strong commitment to achieving peace, tolerance, and democracy. The main problem, namely the lack of commitment to build a national culture that recognizes the differences and diversity. Diversity often killed in the name of religion and harmonization.

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