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Why Do They Hate Us So Much?
The American Thinker ^ | 10 January 2006 | Vasko Kohlmayer

Posted on 01/10/2006 9:48:24 AM PST by RightCanuck

The vitriolic hatred of the United States in some parts of the Arab world has left many Americans bewildered. ‘If they hate us so bitterly,’ the thinking goes, ‘we must have wronged them. Otherwise they would not be so intent on harming us. We must have given them good reasons for that.’

We would do well to remember, however, that this is not the first time America is the object of such hatred. Not even fifteen years ago, we were maligned in much the same way by the Soviets and their allies who treated us daily to hefty doses of seemingly boundless malevolence.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; culture; islam; us; war
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To: RightCanuck

In 1985 I heard this story about how some Arabic groups treat their children. After you hear this story - you will understand WHY they hate us - and why it has nothing to do with anything WE DID TO THEM.

Beginning when the children are school age, they are sent to "camps" - in these summer camps, the children are taught as follows:

The boys are taught to take a tiny puppy dog and squeeze it's neck until the puppy dies. All the time the boys are doing this act of violence - the boys are taught to say - "this is the dog the Jew and this is what I can do to the dog the Jew".

The girls are taught to take a tiny snake and chop it's head off - killing the snake. All the time the girls are doing this act of violence - the girls are taught to say - "this is the snake the Jew and this is what I can do to the snake the Jew".

When you take children 4-5 years old and you indoctrinate or basically brain-wash them with this attitude - it can and does stay with them for life.

We haven't done anything to make them hate us - they have trained their children to perpetuate their hatred of anything Jewish or .. anyone who supports Israel.

The Arabic hatred of Israel is 4000 years old and I don't expect that hatred to be cooled any day soon. The Arabic nations believe Ishmael is the true heir of Abraham - not the Israelite - Isaac. This is a war between 2 half-brothers fighting over an inheritance - the land between the "the Egypt river (the Nile) and the Euphrates" - that's in Genesis.


21 posted on 01/10/2006 10:03:00 AM PST by CyberAnt ( I believe Congressman Curt Weldon re Able Danger)
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To: OB1kNOb
You DID!!!

Today we face an analogous situation in regard to Islamic fundamentalists. In them we confront an enemy whose ideology has produced broken and unjust societies. To divert attention from their own failings, they vent their frustration at the country which contrasts ever so brightly with the depravity of their own ways. The frantic shrillness of their rhetoric indicates that they are on their last legs. As the Soviets did with Reagan, their vilification of Bush has reached a frenzied pitch, because they feel that his resolve will hasten their downfall.

It describes the deamoncRATS perfectly.

22 posted on 01/10/2006 10:04:45 AM PST by EddieB (Be Dilligent...)
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To: Red Badger

I think the left is so anti-Christian instead of anti-religious. They seem to be supportive of any other religion except Christianity, which receives their full hostility.


23 posted on 01/10/2006 10:07:24 AM PST by Muzzle_em ("Get busy LIVING or get busy dying")
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To: RightCanuck
They hate us because our ancestors have been walking upright much,much longer than theirs.
24 posted on 01/10/2006 10:08:51 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: RightCanuck
I think that the premise is flawed. They really don't hate us. A few do, but many don't. There are many foreign places I would rather be at that certain spots in downtown DC at nighttime (and several other large cities).
25 posted on 01/10/2006 10:12:48 AM PST by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: Muzzle_em
Agreed. And the ironic thing is that the first people that Alqeada would shoot if they ever got to us over here would be the very leftists that are aiding them. It would indeed be ironic detachment if the Muslims detached a leftist's head here.
26 posted on 01/10/2006 10:14:30 AM PST by Thebaddog (K9 4ever)
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To: RightCanuck

Good article.


27 posted on 01/10/2006 10:15:38 AM PST by Pessimist
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To: Red Badger
The left is not anti-religous so much as they are anti-Christian. My guess for why this is so is because the liberals associate Christianity with white males.
28 posted on 01/10/2006 10:15:50 AM PST by Mulch (tm)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

Ah, I think having your head hacked off with a dull pocket knife is worse than fighting your way through DC traffic.

:)


29 posted on 01/10/2006 10:17:33 AM PST by captain anode ("love it or leave it" Ramsey is a bottom feeder.)
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To: RightCanuck

Irrelevant. I don't care why they hate me anymore than I would care that a rabid dog hated me. The fact that they want to kill me is all I need to know.


30 posted on 01/10/2006 10:18:48 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: Lejes Rimul

Only because they could not find any true believers willing to die for their cause.


31 posted on 01/10/2006 10:19:51 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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To: RightCanuck
Why do they hate us?

Because their moon god cult leaders tell them to...
32 posted on 01/10/2006 10:20:49 AM PST by snuffy smiff ("the theory of Communism may be summed up in a single sentence:abolition of private property"-K.Marx)
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To: RightCanuck

"The frantic shrillness of their rhetoric indicates that they are on their last legs. As the Soviets did with Reagan, their vilification of Bush has reached a frenzied pitch, because they feel that his resolve will hasten their downfall."

He could be easily talking about the Democrats in addition to the islamic extremists on this point.


33 posted on 01/10/2006 10:27:58 AM PST by rockthecasbah (4th & 9. 1:32 left in the 4th quarter. Down by 3 at Notre Dame. No problem. Fight on!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Because our women are way prettier.


34 posted on 01/10/2006 10:34:00 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: EddieB
It describes the deamoncRATS perfectly.

By golly, you're right! It does fit the Dhimmie's perfectly.

35 posted on 01/10/2006 10:34:03 AM PST by OB1kNOb (Doo doo doo, lookin' out my backdoor.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

and the chicks too!!!


36 posted on 01/10/2006 10:36:19 AM PST by bubman
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To: Dark Skies

Don't expect too much. Look at Venezuela and Columbia, which also have the forms of democracy. The former is led by a typical caudillo; the latter has a decent government but cannot maintain order in the country. In the Middle East, Pakistan and Yeman have some of the forms of a civil society, but the real power is exercised by tribal rulers. Hopefully, the Iraqis will get their acts together.


37 posted on 01/10/2006 10:38:35 AM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RightCanuck

I always figured it was because we produced such great cinema...


Communist Goals 1963 Congressional Record

38 posted on 01/10/2006 10:43:43 AM PST by Fintan (See??? Sometimes I do read the articles.)
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To: Jaxter
Better be praying daily that we don't start hating them. Ask the Japanese and the Germans what happens when Americans hate a foe. Dresden, Nagasaki, Berlin, Hiroshimia.........
39 posted on 01/10/2006 10:46:36 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Marine Corp T-Shirt "Guns don't kill people. I kill people." {Both Arabic and English})
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To: RightCanuck

The Democrats haven't liked Americans for quite a while.


40 posted on 01/10/2006 10:47:29 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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