Posted on 05/05/2015 4:26:25 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
What accounts for hatred of the West by people who voluntarily spent years here?
One of the stranger things about East–West relations these days is the schizophrenic attraction to, and hatred of, Western culture that characterizes many foreign leaders and celebrities.
Did these mixed-up folk idealistically flock to the West, and then end up bitterly disappointed that their experience did not match their dreams, in the infamous manner of Sayyid Qutb (“The America That I Have Seen”)? The Egyptian intellectual Qutb leveraged his subsidized residence in Colorado into an unhinged and racist screed against Western popular culture; among his targets were provocative women, “primitive Negroes,” rampant divorce, and heartless capitalism. Qutb’s two years in the U.S. were the font of his anti-Western and Islamist thought, which he developed as a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. His work in turn inspired much of the anti-Americanism of al-Qaeda specifically and current radical Islam in general.
Mohamed Morsi was briefly president of Egypt and is the currently jailed head of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, whose attempt to create an Islamic theocracy (in one-election, one-time fashion) was thwarted by a military coup. In his year-long tenure, Morsi sought to institute Islamic law and to bargain for the freedom of the terrorist killer responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Omar Abdel-Rahman, serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison. Morsi labeled Israelis “bloodsuckers” and the “descendants of apes and pigs,” as well as claiming that Israel had no right to the territory it has occupied since 1948.
In short, Morsi’s Brotherhood sought to reify Qutb’s anti-Western views in a theocratic government in the Middle East. Morsi apparently was so suspicious of the West that he used a scholarship from the Egyptian government to go to the University of Southern California...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Don’t like it here? Carry your stupid butt back to the motherland.
VDH ping ...
I believe I am reasonably patriotic, but I don’t have much good to say about American popular culture, particularly in recent years. Does VDH think I should leave?
Well, since the standard now appears to be a green light to shooting people that provoke, aggravate, or otherwise annoy you, the radical Muslim problem in the US may be over very shortly.
The same approach can then be applied to radical homosexuals.
They hate the West.
Why are they here ?
Later
Slow motion conquest.
In truth, many of the world’s leading anti-Western public figures [include BH0 and JF'ngK in this list] were trained in the West, have Westernized children and other relatives, seek Western medical care when ill, and in general adopt Western customs that they claim to hate.
VDH loves America and Western Civilization, knowing that it is the only society which has ever delivered ... constitutionally protected human rights, consensual government, protections of private property, free markets, equality between the sexes, meritocracy in lieu of tribalism, religious tolerance, and cultural and religious diversity, [as] the U.S. does, and that makes it a far safer, wealthier, and more humane place ... .
And these Islamic hypocrites used all of that for their own personal benefit ... only to bite the hand that once fed them later.
Fine, but if VDH is saying that loving the cesspool that is modern US popular culture is the test of patriotism, I just don’t know about that. I’m feeling highly alienated from country that elects Obama twice and has paroxysms of hatred at the mere thought of religious freedom as recently in Indiana.
IF our own citizens are indeed the model citizens the Founding Fathers envisioned, those foreign Westernized Anti-Westerners would be easily picked out. Note: I am not promoting nationalism here, but......
I don’t think that VDH considers “pop culture” to be the same thing as “Western culture”.
Absolutely true! In fact, I would list (as I did at post#9 above) the current head of OccupyWH and his minions like JF'ngK as the worst!
And VDH described them well ...
Most elite foreigners who come to the U.S. do so to be branded with American degrees, and they spend most of their time in the fantasyland that is now the typical academic environment. They are exposed to a mostly left-wing homegrown anti-Americanism; their own similar views are fertilized and rarely questioned, and their appetites can be satiated, while their guilt is indulged, on the sybaritic campus. Two reactions then follow: They decide that if the Americans they associate with do not defend their own culture, then that culture is not worth defending; and they eventually develop a contempt for Westerners who do not, as they do, feel proud of their own civilization.
Mohammedians are master hypocrites, when they come here they always drink and sleep around.
Blackhawks in the lead after 2 ... Freeper gets slow when NHL is in the spotlite.
Haven’t lost all year when leading after 2! Shutout, nice.
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