Should America blame itself for the Muslim world's hatred?

Wouldn't Arabs everywhere, including here, rise up and condemn us even more? To me, it would be like putting a bulls-eye on our back.

You've obviously bought in to the media/academia characterization of the WOT as being an outgrowth of the Israeli/Palestinian issue. It is not. Bin Laden and the other terrorist organizations didn't start using the Pali angle until recently -- Binny's original gripe was the U.S. presence in the Muslim holyland of Saudi Arabia, but, like any good jihadist, he built on whatever unjustified resentment he could find in any corner of the globe -- and the Palis (never mind that they're despised by/barred from other Arab lands) are tailor-made expendable fodder for the "cause."

By your reasoning, if we could just hide all the Jews in some cellar, the Arabs won't be mad at us. I've got news for you, according to the Koran (the vehicle though which Arab psychosis -- described so well in Post #8 -- has been spread throughout non-Arab lands)athiests will be the first to be exterminated, then Jews and Christians, although the latter "People of the Book" will have a choice: dhimmitude (slavery) or death. No one is exempt from Jihad in the name of Allah. Americans already have a bullseye painted on their backs, because our Democratic Republic presents the biggest, and possibly last, obstacle to the spread of the religion of death.

I wonder what this as_h_le assigns hitler's anti-Semitism to? I am certain he blames it all on the Jews. Perhaps because the Jews were taller than hitler, so hitler had to suffer with a terribly unfair height disadvantage?....Or perhaps because the Jews grew up relatively unpoor and hitler was dirt poor, so hitler had a terribly unfair class disadvantge? This crap spewed in the media really makes me sick.

Should America blame itself for the Muslim world's hatred?

Only if we live in some strange parallel universe in which blacks and Catholics must blame themselves for the KKK's hatred; women blame themselves for their rapists' hatred; and Jews blame themselves for the Nazis' hatred.

Until such time that we do live in such a singularly warped world, I suggest that proponents of such claptrap should seriously rethink their position.

Close but no seegar. " The reason these Muslim countries have a low standard of living has far more to do with political repression and a lack of basic human rights than any Jewish conspiracy."

the real reason that Muslim (and other third world) countries have a low standard of living has far more to do with religious repression, tribalism, paganism and a lack of basic human rights and individual freedoms than because of any mythical Jewish conspiracy.

I'm NOT saying being a Jew disqualifies anyone from any office. I am saying that a Jew being our President could be a very bad move for our politics.

Sometimes, it's discrimination, sometimes it's common sense.

Being a Jew has to be a most difficult thing. I am not anti-Jewish. I am a gentile Christian.

I'm saying that having a Jewish President right now could be adding fuel to the fire that we have going on with the Arabs.

Why is that wrong? Could a Jewish President negotiate BETTER with the Arabs, or would he be hindered more by his Jewishness?

I think the answer is clear.

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