Posted on 03/21/2002 9:25:50 AM PST by vannrox
The US is driving the Muslim world to hatred, says newspaper editor Abdel Bari Atwan Terrorism crisis - Observer special Sunday March 10, 2002 Worse, as Arabs and Muslims we have been terrorised by the campaign launched in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Yemen and Georgia. The supposed potential dangers facing the West have not been eliminated. This campaign has given the mistaken impression that Muslims are the source of terrorism in the world, creating tensions and providing Islamic radical groups with the ammunition to recruit thousands of young Muslim men and women. Now the humane foundations of Western civilisation - tolerance, democracy, a fair and independent judiciary, equality before the law and respect for human rights - are being questioned by Muslims worldwide. The US, which considers itself a 'republic of immigrants', has turned against all its values and principles, detaining thousands of its Arab and Muslim citizens. Even Britain has witnessed intense media, legal and political campaigns against its Arab and Muslim citizens. Americans are masters of destruction
Islam and the West - Observer special
The Observer
It never occurred to me when I met Osama bin Laden in one of the caves of the Jalalabad overlooking Tora Bora mountains more than five years ago that this slim, rarely smiling man would be the leading figure responsible for paving the way for inter-religious, inter-cultural wars that may last for five or more decades but this is what he has done.
Although 11 September changed the Western world the effect on the Islamic world has been far greater. The gulf between the two is widening. Today many in the Islamic world are convinced that the US administration harbours real enmity for Islam and the Muslims. The inhumane treatment of the Muslim prisoners of war at Guantanamo Bay and the preparations for war on Iraq have only reinforced that impression.
In the past six months I have learned that the opinion of 'the other' is welcomed, but only rather restrictively. I have been threatened repeatedly and warned to refrain from expressing an opinion about the events. So far I have received 10 messages containing death threats. We must sympathise strongly with the victims of the September disaster and denounce all those who supported that action. But it has brought to everyone's attention that the source of the hatred expressed towards America across the Islamic world is Washington's imbalanced foreign policy.
Successive US administrations have supported the two worst things in the Islamic world: the Israeli occupation of the Arab-occupied territories and the corrupt dictatorial regimes that have been imposed on the people. The US will not win its war against terrorism unless it changes the way it sees the world and renounces its arrogant policy of resorting solely to military solutions in order to confront this phenomenon. There must be a long-term policy to deal with the roots of terrorism in order to eliminate the causes of the world's hatred for America.
The Americans are experts in destruction but novices in reconstruction, reform and renovation. They must learn fast.
They don't like us supporting their corrupt dictatorial regimes. They don't like us overthrowing their corrupt dictatorial regimes. I swear, there's just no pleasing some people....
What will it say about his all-powerful god when the black moon-god rock is destroyed by a comet launched from America, which will happen 30 minutes after his insane death cultists unleash a WMD in the USA?
Something for insane death cult islamists everywhere to ponder deeply.
Now the humane foundations of Western civilisation - tolerance, democracy, a fair and independent judiciary, equality before the law and respect for human rights - are being questioned by Muslims worldwide.
I question this, seeing as, if they've lived their lives in the Muslim world, they have no idea what any of those concepts are.
Personally, they need their buts kicked.
Arabs still cannot fit women into their cosmology and will allways be a failure as a result of this.
Didn't you go to school? The short bus is the bus all the retards and LD kids rode to school on.
Actually I lived close enough to walk or be driven. Thanks and no, I am not a shut in.
Which ought to make y'all think twice about pissing us off.
Great post! Not only do you think like me, you even write like me. This means that you are both brilliant and literate!
Why?
They are so used to hating us and lying to us without any repercussions. They are incapable of telling the truth and stopping the hatred. Now, they are reaping the whirlwind of over 3 decades of hatred and lies towards us!
Well, they started a Jihad on 9/11, and when it is over, they will really understand how we destroy those who try to destroy us and promise 24/7 to destroy us!
This is incredible Bravo Sierra! Thanks for finding it an posting it.
I give it 7 to 10 days before this is cited by one of the American sites claiming to be against war or as real conservatives as proof of what we are doing is wrong!
That was exactly my reaction.
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