I don't believe that at all.
Do you really think that no Muslims hate us for being over there, at war in the Middle East?
I thought I effectively answered that in post #168 but, no, it doesn't make any sense. Muslims have hated all non-Muslims since Mohammed. Ask an Indian Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist.
Ok, well that's good.
"I thought I effectively answered that in post #168 but, no, it doesn't make any sense. Muslims have hated all non-Muslims since Mohammed. Ask an Indian Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist."
That's a huge, sweeping generalization, and I have to disagree that it was always that way. When I was in junior high, my family lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for 2 years, and we got to know some Muslims, and at that time things were very very different. They were actually friendly and hospitable towards Americans, and although I was just a kid at that time, I don't have any negative memories of interacting with Muslims.
So that leads me to ask the question - what has happened between then (I don't want to give away my age, but I'll just say it was many years ago) and now? And it causes me to ask, does our foreign policy and intervening in the internal affairs of other countries have anything to do with it?
I realize that you guys (or at least Absolutely Nobama) don't care why they hate us. But I actually do want peace, and what matters to me is that our government does what is right and moral, and what makes the most sense. IF it is true that our hyper-interventionism, nation building, and policy of perpetual war is unconstitutional and immoral, and what instigates more enemies and more terrorism, then maybe we (the people) need to not support that.
And btw, all I'm doing is asking questions, my position is not set in stone, except that I want us to do what is right and constitutional.