They accused the group of being fame-seeking and of having an overtly western focus on what is a regional African problem.
But the Pakistani publishers promise something different: an emphasis on their country's "soft side" that cuts across the relentless Western focus on burqas, bombs and the Taliban.
Many rebels and opposition activists complain about the Western focus on Islamist groups, some even dismissing the opposition's ideological differences.
The western focus on pirates and militants, although understandable, can seem very myopic from a Somali viewpoint; they are the symptoms of dysfunction rather than the causes of it.
Away from commodity prices, increased western focus on human rights around the world, combined with the greater transparency forced on the kingdom by the globalisation and enhanced reach of conventional, digital and social media, has placed the Saudi record under unprecedented scrutiny.
Three distinct areas of Fort Worth cater to tourists — the Cultural District, where the city discreetly husbands many of its finest art treasures; Sundance Square downtown, where the one museum has an appropriately western focus; and the former Stockyards, whose stores and restaurants invite a post-gallery break.
An ever stronger economic and political force in the region, Turkey has been in negotiations to join the bloc since 2005, and some analysts have worried that a frustrated Turkey might shift from its Western focus to building stronger ties with Moscow and Tehran.
[Without the Western focus] I think he still would have been big in the Western jihadi community, but I don't think he would have been taken as seriously in the global jihadi community".
Those more western focused Ukrainians dramatically overthrew the Ukrainian president with close ties to the Kremlin in favor of closer trade ties to Europe, joining the Schengen Zone and maybe even a NATO alliance.
He discounted the Western focus on appearances and superficialities, which often reflected mere fashion and habit, and drew attention to the origins of culture and the unconscious and mixed motivations of people and the groups formed by them.
