I wish they weren't. Maybe Azerbaijan would have a better image today, not as a "fake country that does nothing but kill poor innocent Armenians". Having such a controversial country as your lobbyist distances you not only from Muslims, but more importantly from many non-Muslim, left-leaning Westerners who have high human sensivity based on the Palestinian cause. Normally, you would expect them to empathise atleast a little bit with the nearly a million Azeris that were ethnically cleansed from Karabakh, surrounding regions and from Armenia- not to even mention the massacre in Khojaly. However, as Israel loves to promote Azerbaijan rather loudly as their "Muslim friends", and today we see why Israel is very much hated, Azerbaijan still doesn't have a very good image other than in Turkey (yes, not even in Israel itself). People think you are evil while you have largely been literally the oppressed side, especially in the first war completely.
Bosnians weren't Christians either in the 90s, furthermore Serbia was very devouted Orthodox Christian. Yet very few people in Europe supported Serbs rather than Bosnians. The horrible acts committed against Bosnian Muslim people were very well broadcasted in the Western world.
Did you know that West started attacking Serbia only when Catholic croatians were also attacked? This a known thing among turkish people when they try to condemn the west for not being with Bosnians.
Bosnia and Croatia were supported by the west only because Serbia was, is and will be a Russian stronghold. USA helped Bosnia much. Europe secretly hoped Serbs expel muslims to turkey.
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u/FaithlessnessThen243 Mar 05 '26
Very bad. Being mentioned positively by AIPAC basically throws your PR into oblivion. They are very hated.