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title: "Lebanese Shia: Zero Support for U.S."
description: "Not one Shia respondent in the Lebanese sample expresses a favorable view of America"
date: "2008-07-09"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/07/09/lebanese-shia-zero-support-for-u-s/"
---

# Lebanese Shia: Zero Support for U.S.

Overall, the United States evokes negative reactions among Muslim publics, but nowhere are there more negative feelings than among the Shia population of Lebanon; not a single respondent in a recent Pew Research survey expressed a favorable opinion of the U.S. An overwhelming 98% of Lebanese Shia have negative views of America. Lebanese Sunnis, however, have a 62% favorable opinion of the U.S., a clear exception from other Muslim publics in the Middle East. The Lebanese Christian population (76%) also has a favorable opinion of America.[Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/867/global-economic-gloom)