How Is Obama's Asia Tour Playing with Muslims?

Not very well, at least according to this editorial in the Arab News. An excerpt:

“So President Barack Obama thinks that more works needs to be done to end Muslim mistrust of the US but that he is making progress on reducing misunderstanding between the two.

The US president is either living in an ivory tower, totally divorced from reality, or he is being thoroughly dishonest, hoping that Muslims can be fobbed off with fine words.

As far as Muslims are concerned, nothing of any importance has been done by him to change attitudes. Muslim mistrust of the US is as great as ever. It is also painfully evident that, for all its denials, American mistrust of Muslims is massive. The furor over the planned mosque near New York’s 9/11 site; an opinion poll in September showing that 35 percent of Americans believe that Islam encourages violence; the seizure only this week of a package containing nothing more deadly than the passports of a number of American Muslims planning to leave for Haj by US Customs & Border Control with the result that the 17 would-be Hajis missed their flight: All stand as damning evidence of towering American Islamophobia and a paranoia about anything connected with Muslims.”