Posted on 06/15/2006 11:47:19 PM PDT by NeoOldCon
Muslims' anti-U.S. sentiment up By Katie Stuhldreher THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 15, 2006 Anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world has reached startling levels, but positive U.S. policies like disaster-relief efforts can help reverse the trend, according to poll results released yesterday. The data also showed that large numbers of people in several of Iran's neighboring countries -- including 70 percent in Pakistan -- would favor a nuclear-armed Iran. Terror Free Tomorrow, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with Sen. John McCain and several members of the 9/11 commission on its advisory board, commissioned the wide-ranging poll on nuclear programs and anti-Western sentiment among Iran's neighbors. When asked how they viewed the United States, 89 percent in Saudi Arabia, 84 percent in the United Arab Emirates, 71 percent in Turkey and 64 percent in Pakistan answered "unfavorable." Additionally, 66 percent of Pakistanis opposed the U.S.-led fight against terrorism. Ken Ballen, president of Terror Free Tomorrow and a former federal prosecutor and counsel to the Iran-Contra committee, said the poll results were "startling" and showed that radical anti-Western views were becoming the consensus in the Muslim world.
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So much for our commander and chief's gesture attempting to give them US Ports.
I will really worry when the barstards start to like me!
Great point, so we must be doing something good.
As long as I'm free and my family is safe, I don't care what the world thinks of the U.S.
I would prefer that muslims quake in fear when an American walks by. It seems to be the only thing they understand.
This will go on, until they get tired of dying.
Can we stop trying to convince these people to be nice to us now and just wipe them out?
Customs Officer: Are you here with peaceful intentions?
Immigrant Muslim: Oh yes, me love America!
Customs Officer: OK, here's your passport and your unchecked suitcase.
You might try talking around the problem, ignoring it, twitching in alarm every time somebody in a turban claims to be offended. But then you'd be France. And it hasn't helped them one bit.
Well, perhaps I'm not so fond of them either.
It's a waste of time to give them money. It didn't makes us friends during the tsunami relief.
The sooner Americans realize that this "really is" a war of cultures, the better off we all will be. No amount of rational discussion, funding, etc, will cause these people (Muslims) to like us. As others have said, they respect one thing only, and that's power and brute force. So, I say let's give them what they respect.
Muslims always believe they belong to the highest civilization and most of them are waiting Western "Christian" countries to be Islamized. Before WOT, many young Westerners saw Islam as exotic, peaceful, religion. WOT changed everything: many people in the West see the scary face of Islam. Muslims know this. Hence, they hate the US, the leader of WOT, the most.
A study by our politicions. I suspect this is to conjur up proof that Bush is to blame [for Iraq]. They'll use this as a sign that if we leave Iraq the neighboring countries' will reduce their hatred of us down from heated hatred to mild hatred.
Well, news for them. These Islamokooks really hate cowards, and losers, so such a strategy will only worsen the situation (perhaps to boiling hatred level).
The only solution is to turn the whole region into a huge caged-in zoo.
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