Why Muslims Hate America (Refers to Fox News as "Zionist")

Arab News ^ | April 4, 2004 | Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

I get lots of angry e-mails. I understand. The writers may be missing some facts and need to look at issues from different perspectives.

I believe in human decency, fairness and goodness, and have been proven right in many cases when anger and misjudgment gave way to more understanding and even agreement. Such is the power of man’s greatest innovation — communication.

Last week, an American reader fired a question at me: “I need to know why in hell people would murder in the name of Islam and take such apparent joy in it.”

I felt the man was innocently puzzled, maybe because he was caught up in the mood of the moment. He must have just watched a news story about a Palestinian suicide bomber avenging the Israeli air “bombing” of Hamas’ elderly leader Sheikh. He could be one of those fast-food, fast-lane news-biters who don’t have time for backgrounds, observing the world via flash news, probably on Zionist Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.

When they wonder about the insanity of the world, I understand their confusion. After all, with my limited knowledge of the CIA’s dirty history in Latin America, how would I know why over 80 percent of Latinos hate the US?

I answered my puzzled reader: Let’s start with injustice. For half a century, Palestinians have been robbed of life, property and dignity. The world has been watching, applauding or even sponsoring their adversary, as America has. When death becomes more attractive than life, desperate, insane things happen.

Religion has always been used to rally troops. Catholics in Ireland fought a religious war for decades. Europe went to war for religion, which propelled both Crusaders and colonizers for centuries. Indians and ex-Yugoslavians still fight over religion. Russians abuse their Muslim Chechens. Sharon, Blair and Bush are killing Muslims in the name of God. The latter claimed twice that God instructed him to wage war — no kidding.

I don’t advocate violence, not against innocent civilians. But, like you, I never experienced the hard trials many Native Americans, Palestinians, Irish, Chechens, Muslim Chinese, African Americans and Japanese Americans had. To be fair, we should at least acknowledge motives. Imagine the victim of a lynching and burning raid in the name of a white God being asked: Why in hell are you hitting back?

In a 2000 poll three quarters of the 200 million Muslims in Indonesia had a favorable opinion of the US. After the insane response to Sept. 11 and as a result of its blind support of Israel’s world-defying policies, only 15 percent still do.

Anger is a reaction, Bob, and hell needs fuel to burn. In many Muslim cases, Hell has sponsors.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Repugnant filth. If you want to say "hi" contact the author: kbatarfi@al-madina.com.sa

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[MegaSilver]

For half a century, Palestinians have been robbed of life, property and dignity.

When was there ever a "Palestinian state"? IIRC, it was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire until last century.

[dts32041]

Writing to this individual would be like talking to john kerry about releasing his medical records and his real record in Viet Nam.

So why bother, understanding will never be reached.

When he is standing in the streets yelling allah aka bar, put the bottom of the boot to his head and throw him into a pig pen.

Then another boot to the head.

[eleni121]

You are right. Emails cannot change a victim fo hateful ideology like this Doctor Demento. But they can make his sordid life a little more miserable.

[grellis]

After the insane response to Sept. 11 ...

And a more sane approach would have been what, do you suppose? Maybe Dr. B(at)arfi would have preferred we all join hands and sang Kumbaya.

[wagglebee]

Religion has always been used to rally troops. Actually we went to war with them when they killed 3000 innocent Americans. Prior to 1979 when the idiot peanut farmer turned his back on the only truly pro-American leader in the Arab world, the only problem we had ever had with any Arab nation was buying their oil and making some of them rich beyond imagination. On Rush yesterday, Walter Williams was talking about how one big Arab problem is jealousy over their "unmodern" lifestyle. It made a lot of sense. These Islamofascists sound a lot like the Japanese did just before Pearl Harbor. If countries want to enjoy the same lifestyle as the Americans do, all they need to do is ask. Its really simple, you allow your citizens to have liberty and freedom and to make it even easier the Democrats will give you all the money you need to become a real country.

[Lijahsbubbe]

For half a century, Palestinians have been robbed of life, property and dignity. The world has been watching

And a large part of that world includes who- MUSLIMS!

So if these "palestinians" are so supposedly oppressed by the teeny, tiny country of evil Jews, where is the hand of outreach from all of the Muslim brothers? Are they short on money, land, a helping hand at building a city? No, I think not. In fact, the fellow Muslims have killed "palestinians" and refused them in their own countries.

It is the "evil" Americans, in fact, who have and are giving the "palestinians" money.

[anniegetyourgun]

He is scum.

[netmilsmom]

>>After all, with my limited knowledge of the CIA’s dirty history in Latin America, how would I know why over 80 percent of Latinos hate the US?<<

And this is why they are all fighting to get here illegally.

[muawiyah]

Well, sure, everything Walter said, but then again Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi probably just got turned down for the 37th time for an immigration visa to the land of the Great Satan.

His comment about 80% of Latinos "hating" Americans got me to laughing. After all, Latinos aren't all that popular here, nor in each other's countries for that matter!

Maybe the good Doctor could go around preaching his stuff to them and asking them to "go home".

[vbmoneyspender]

Why Muslims Hate America

I might be inclined to take notice if the list of people Muslims hate was a short one, but it's not, so I don't.

[Lijahsbubbe]

And this is why they are all fighting to get here illegally.

Bwahaha. Right on target!

Dr. Barfi would do well to note that we have all the immigrants we can handle here in the evil US. How many are storming the borders of Arab countries? How many Americans are fighting to immigrate to their third world hell-holes where they wipe their butts with their hands and live in dirt?

[McGavin999]

Perhaps if guys like this didn't lie so much there might be the possibility of peace. Frankly, we don't care who "hates" us because of their own inferiority. If they acted like men for a change and did something to improve the lives of their wives and children perhaps they wouldn't have sufficient time on their hands to hate so much.

[wagglebee]

Maybe the "doctor" (what does it take to get a doctorate in the desert?) should talk to some Latinos (other than Cubans or Venezuelans). They all want to come here and will do anything necessary to have a better life. Bush is doing this amnesty thing because despite everything else, he knows that Mexicans come here to work, not murder people.

[Monty22]

I find it amusing that he doesn't even know which repugnant act of islamic terror the writer to him is upset with.

Literally endless amounts of them. I'd think this alone proves this guy's serious lie that it's just desperation or isolated events.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

The seething rage that simmers just beneath the surface of his writing drowns out any message he may have. Just another Bedouin in search of meaning for his empty life.

[ApplegateRanch]

Only the other 20%, who want jobs Americans don't want, so they can escape the 80% who don't like them or us. Of course once here, they'll send ther money home, to show what a great nation this is, thus buying us more support.../S>

[Publius6961]

This guy is in an alternate universe. When he can discuss the "palestinians" without once having to refer to the state of Israel, or what the U.S. may or may ot have done in latin America, I may begin to take him seriously.

[tubavil]

Filthy arab.