Posted on 08/09/2007 8:38:09 AM PDT by machogirl
Why do they hate us?
Americans have been asking this question for nearly six years now, and for six years President Bush and his accomplices have been offering the same tired response: "They hate us for our freedoms." With every passing year, that answer becomes less convincing.
Part of the problem has to do with the question itself. Who exactly are they? Are we referring to al-Qaida and its cohorts? Are we talking about Iran, Syria, and the other nation-states whose interests in the Middle East do not properly align with America's? Or perhaps we mean Hamas, Hezbollah, or the myriad religious nationalist organizations across the Muslim world that share neither the ideology nor the aspirations of global, transnational groups like al-Qaida, but that have nevertheless been dumped into the same category: them.
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your right, hamas and hezbollah were offhandedly mentioned and glossed over, i suppose in his mind, now that hamas has a “political” wing, with some “elected” officials, they are credible
I’ve been asking for a lot longer than that why the Dims hate the US.
Or 2000, or in the case of the Jewish people 5,000......
Probably, but really they don’t need a reason to hate us. Muslims are taught as children to hate anyone who isn’t a member of their tribe or their sect. If they aren’t killing non Muslims they are killing each other. They hate us not because of who we are but because of who they are, Muslims.
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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend.
If not, you can kill him without hate and quickly.
Time Enough for Love (1973) R.A. Heinlein
We are too far past making friends....we passed that possibility on 9/11.
“Nearly 1400 years and counting.”
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Thus it has been and thus it will always be.
They’ve always hated one another...it’s foolish
to think we’ll “win their hearts and minds”.
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Now ask me if I give a rat's a$$ about their opinion of the US
*pause for deep contemplation* Nope, don't care a bit
you are the first person to get it. This conflict goes all the way back to the origin of islam and its conflict with the bible.
LOL
not a guy, so i can’t say that i can appreciate that display,
It’s part of a many part’ed reason “why they hate us”. The fact is, most Americans simply do not spend much time thinking about those outside of our borders. And, this fact drives foreigners crazy. They want so badly to be relevant to us. And, we respond by saying “huh”?
Having spent a considerable amount of time living outside of the U.S. and thereby being forced to watch the likes of the BBC International, the French English speaking news, and the German English speaking news, I can tell you that the rest of the world is obsessed with the U.S. These news services mentioned spend about 90% of their broadcast time on U.S. issues and a very small amount of time on their own internal issues. As an example, back when Muslim youths were rioting, burning cars, in France, etc., this got minimal mention by the French news service or BBC for that matter. But these foreign outlets would instead continually berate Bush and the Iraq war. Go figure....
french= head in the sand or up their -—
WGAF
They hate us the way darkness hates the morning sun. And for the same reason: it is the nature of the latter to abolish the former.
They hate us because we represent decadence and immorality. We put abortion, drug abuse, homosexuality and crime at the forefront of our freedoms while destroying the rule of law.
Basically, they hate Democrats and the Democrats turn it around to say it is the Republicans fault.
And they all Hate Woman, Homosexuals, Free-Expression, Music, Free-Press, Jews, Christians, Hollywood movies.
I'm sure I left some things and people out.
The last time you saw a muslim smile was 9-11-2001.
It’s not us they hate. It’s themselves. Islam is the product of a weak “prophet” who was mad. Their religion is based on shame, humiliation and death. Collectivist to the core. It is our freedom they fear and resent. Freedom that is denied them by Allah.
Maybe the fact that they are brainwashed, idol worshiping cultist robots has something to do with it.
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