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Why Do They Hate Us?
slate ^ | Monday, Aug. 6, 2007 | Reza Aslan

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: alqueda; dnctalkingpoints; islam; islamicimperialism; islamicsupremacists; whydotheyhateus
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To: cowdog77

They hate everyone.

I was in college during the demonstrations against the Shah of Iran.

I got to talk with several Persians who never went back to Iran. The Muslim takeover surprised them. They thought they would have a western style Democracy.

It was their opinion that Islam is mis-translated into English. They thought it meant something closer to slavery, rather than submission.


61 posted on 08/09/2007 9:22:36 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: TexasCajun

but do they hate sean penn and rose O’Donnell?


62 posted on 08/09/2007 9:22:59 AM PDT by machogirl
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To: machogirl
I think the correct response is "DILLIGAF?!!!"

The fact that they do, and that the only way to change that is convert or die, should be sufficient.

I'm not converting, nor do I plan on dying, so I reckon their attitude toward me isn't going to change.

We did not wonder why the Nazis wanted to conquer the world, nor the minions of Benito Mussolini, nor the Communists, so why all the sniveling and groveling all of a sudden?

63 posted on 08/09/2007 9:25:10 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: machogirl

“Why Do They Hate Us?”

Because THEY are muslims and we are not.


64 posted on 08/09/2007 9:27:09 AM PDT by RouxStir (No Peeing Allowed in the Gene Pool.)
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To: Veto!

Tagline theif alert!


66 posted on 08/09/2007 9:28:24 AM PDT by CSM ("The real question is, why don’t we hate them?" - Veto! (8/9/2007))
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To: machogirl

“Why do they hate us”

I don’t really care. All I know is they want to kill my family. Therefore, I want to kill them first.


67 posted on 08/09/2007 9:30:28 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: machogirl

Whatsa matter? don’t you like motorcycles? (8^D)


68 posted on 08/09/2007 9:30:47 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: machogirl
They hate American because they hate every people who are not muslims. Period. Don't look so far for the answer, they are givint it to you : Have you been so brainwashed by the MSM that you forgot the first will of totalitarism ? To dominate all things on earth, humans first ?
69 posted on 08/09/2007 9:36:31 AM PDT by drzz
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To: OESY

Mmmm, mmmmm, patriotism.......

Great pic. Thanks for sharing.


70 posted on 08/09/2007 9:36:47 AM PDT by CSM ("The real question is, why don’t we hate them?" - Veto! (8/9/2007))
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To: machogirl
Who are they? Islamic Supremacists. Why do they hate us? Because they believe they should dominate the world and the kufir (non-muslims).

The Islamic Empire is the political establishment of Islam, not the “religious”. There should be no tolerance for the supremacist politics of Islam.

Some “moderates” say that there would be peace if we’d just “leave” muslim lands. That concept of “muslim lands” is wrong. Morally wrong. Even citizens of those nations who convert away from Islam would be persecuted. This isn’t “East vs. West”. This is Islam vs. all else.

Our freedom of religion is an affront. Our freedom of speech condones “blasphemy” against Islam. These are among those “freedoms” they do not like.

Impeached president Clinton weighed in on the issue of the “12 cartoons” and said that the cartoonists should be prosecuted for their handiwork.

The Left has already surrendered.

71 posted on 08/09/2007 9:37:00 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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72 posted on 08/09/2007 9:37:22 AM PDT by drzz
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To: machogirl
Why do they hate us? Americans have been asking this question for nearly six years now

Not this American. And frankly I don't care as long as they fear us.

73 posted on 08/09/2007 9:39:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: JHBowden
“America is the head of heresy in our modern world, and it leads a n infidel democratic regime that is based upon separation of religion and state and on ruling the people by the people via legislating laws

Sounds pretty good with a little editing...except for the liberalspeak separation of church and state.
74 posted on 08/09/2007 9:39:03 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: Smokin' Joe

i am soooo not with it, that i have to ask my kids what the acronyms mean :)


75 posted on 08/09/2007 9:40:14 AM PDT by machogirl
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To: pnh102

Ironic that an Islamic lawmaker swore in on that Koran and the media tried to spin it that Thomas Jefferson was interested in “diversity” of viewpoint and THAT was why he had a Koran, not because of the pirates.


76 posted on 08/09/2007 9:41:05 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

i like motorcycles enough, haven’t been on one since i was a teen and ran into the back fence, probably best that i don’t get on one, no problems driving a car :)


77 posted on 08/09/2007 9:42:11 AM PDT by machogirl
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To: All

VIDEO of muslims (not Al-Qaeda celles) rip an American flag apart and claiming islamic dominance over America :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO74GwUTZj4


78 posted on 08/09/2007 9:43:12 AM PDT by drzz
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To: snoringbear

Much easier for the Russians, Germans, and French to complain about Bush’s war than to admit to the payoffs they got from Saddam.


79 posted on 08/09/2007 9:43:43 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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The group of muslims insulting Americans on their own soil, in front of dozens of people shown in the video, have a sign in which it is written “Oh, muslims, you know who is your enemy. Isn’t it obvious” ?

It is. For all muslims.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO74GwUTZj4

Why do they hate us ? Read the Quran. And you will find.


80 posted on 08/09/2007 9:46:08 AM PDT by drzz
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