By: Assous Mohamed

"Children are dying, but no one makes a move.

Houses are demolished, but no one makes a move.
Holy places are desecrated, but no one makes a move....
I am fed up with life in the world of mortals.
Find me a hole near you. For a life of dignity is in those holes."
Arabic poem

Jacob.G.Hormberger said: « After 9/11 many Americans had no idea why

there was so much anger and rage in the Middle East, especially against
the United States ».
But unfortunately Jacob.G.Hormberger didn’t study and analyse all the
reasons that created this hatred and resentment and therefore he didn’t
give readers the full truth about this thorny issue.
I try in this sample study, helping Hoberger to uncover the truth of this
hatred as I was born in Arabic country and lived among the Arabs and
Muslims since my birth 1967.
The sense of Arab and Islamic peoples to America has undergone two
stages,
The first stage before the first war word 1945 when all Arab and Islamic
countries were under the authority of the French and the British
colonialism in particular, in these times , all oppressed peoples were proud
about America and love it, especially in the era of Woodrow Wilson(1928-
1924) the 28th president of united states.
Both Wilson and United states were loved because of the fourteen points in
January 8, 1918 , the main point and principle was self-dermination.So
America was the hope of these oppressed peoples to achieve independence.

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In this period United States were hope, light and candle in the time where
France and Britain were both colonial.
In short, the American Revolution 1776, successive U.S governments, U.S
presidents have been the focus of admiration and love of the oppressed
peoples, especially the Arab and Islamic peoples, because U.S used to
represent freedom and democracy.
United states were in Arab and Muslim peoples justice, science ,civilization
but unfortunately all that is finished after 1945, and the nice and wonderful
image was dead , here is the second stage ,stage of hatred.
So why? What are the real reasons which caused death of the beautiful
image and led to the birth of this ugly image?

Since my childhood and I hear words Anti-American, in streets, cafes and

schools I listened to the sentences that: America is against us, we are with
Soviet Union and Soviet Union is with us.
It was really strange for me so I wanted to understand better, why U.S is
against us, and why Soviet Union is with us? But far from cold war I have
understood when I was child that U.S is bad too bad.
After the Second World War Harry Truman (1884-1972) the 33rd president
of U.S had decided to support Israeli statehood.

H.Truman

Truman wrote in his memoirs, "The question of Palestine as a Jewish

homeland goes back to the solemn promise that had been made to them
[the Jews] by the British in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 - a promise
which had stirred the hopes and the dreams of these oppressed people.
This promise, I felt, should be kept, just as all promises made by
responsible, civilized governments should be kept."

Truman didn’t think about Palestinians fate or feelings of Arabs and

Muslims.

This event was indeed the beginning of hatred.

After several massacres committed by Jews against Palestinians since

1948, U.S didn’t intervene and didn’t condemn, which led to the growing
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of hatred against U.S. the biggest and the worst massacre and carnage
was in sabra and shatila September ,16th 1982 .

Massacre of Sabra and Shatila

1982

.who died in this carnage was children, elders, and many isolated from
any gun. The leader of this massacre was Ariel Sharon. After this painful
event U.S didn’t say any thing, indeed U.S ever reproached Jews
governments about their illegal actions.

Palestinian
child killed by
Israel

Palestinians killed
by Israel

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 Here you are a sadly image about a Palestinian mother between her
hands her little kid injured or killed we don’t know exactly by Israeli
army

Arabic and Muslim world have hated U.S because it’s positions and
policy.

Arabs and Muslims worldwide believe that Israel control U.S policy ,
Hassan El-Najjar wrote in Al-JaZeerah.info ,March 5,2007 an article
about How Israel Lobby Controls US Policies: The Arab Bank Case (This
is a classical example of how the Israeli lobby controls US policies. In
1967, Israel launched a war of aggression in which it occupied parts of
Syria, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza.

The Israeli occupation government has adopted policies to evict

Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza or to force them to surrender to
the slavery of its occupation.

The Israeli occupation government has labelled Palestinians who resisted

its illegal occupation as "terrorists." Even charities providing aid to the
needy Palestinians have been labelled as "terrorist" too.

Supporters of Israel in the US government have adopted the same Israeli

terminology in referring to the Palestinian individuals or groups who are
victims of the Israeli occupation.

The US Congress never condemned the Israeli government as a terrorist

entity for killing and injuring Palestinian civilians, destroying their homes,
stealing their lands, and building illegal settlements in the occupied
territories. At the same time, it passed many laws describing Palestinian
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groups as "terrorists." It even passed legislation to prevent the executive
branch from dealing with the pro-US Palestinian Authority.

The US Justice Department has been very active in closing down US

charities which used to help needy Palestinians. Almost all of them have
been closed during the present Bush administration. At the same time, aid
to Israel continues despite Israeli daily violations of international law and
daily violations of Palestinian human rights.

The case of suing the Arab Bank for facilitating aid from Arab charities to
needy Palestinians is a clear example of the tight Israeli control over the
US government to do the Israeli bidding. The objective is to help Israelis
continue their subjugation of the Palestinian people as long as possible.

It is a policy that ultimately serves the continuation of the Israeli

occupation of Palestine.

It punishes anyone who tries to help needy Palestinians, whose only fault is
to desire to be free of Israeli bondage.) This is relation between U.S and
Israel in Arabs eyes.

In fact, in Arabs and Muslims eyes supporting Israel is supporting

terrorism, read this article: Israel's terrorism against whoever speaks of
rights
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/23/2002

("The Israelis do not settle for the terrorism they practise against the
Palestinians, but they also practise intellectual and moral terrorism against
whoever speaks of rights," said Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher.

In statements Sunday prior to his departure to Valencia, Spain, to lead

Egypt's delegation to the European-Mediterranean ministerial conference,
due to kick off Monday, Maher said "Israel alleges it withdrew from certain
places but we find it back there the next day."

"Even if its withdraws, we find it bent on staying in the environs of

Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat's complex and the Church of Nativity,
which is totally rejected," said Maher.

"We have seen how Israel lashed out at UN representative Terje-Roed

Larsen when he visited the Jenin refugee camp and mentioned clearly what
he had seen for himself, that the Israeli public prosecutor called for
expelling him from Israel," added Maher.
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Maher expressed hope that a fact-finding commission formed by the
Security Council would come to the region to express its opinion over this
situation created by Israel and its aggression on the Palestinian people.

On the possibility that Israel's membership of the Euro Mediterranean

Forum would be suspended, he said "Israel's presence-even if it is
something loathsome due to the crimes it perpetrated-offers a good chance
to expose its practices against humanity, legitimacy and law."

"Some Arab brothers viewed that it would be proper not to attend and we
respect their decisions, but the majority viewed it was essential to go
anywhere to defend our cause and to take the fig leaf off Israel's
manoeuvres and crimes," he said.

On whether Maher would meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
on the sidelines of the Valencia conference, Maher said "frankly, I don't
want to meet him but if he asks to meet me, I'm ready for it.

However, he will not be pleased with what he is going to hear from me."

On reports that Israel was considering storming Arafat's headquarters and

expelling him from the occupied Palestinian territories, Maher expressed
belief that the Israelis-despite their foolishness-would not embark on such
act which would lead to serious consequences.). After this travel between
Arabs news we can discover why U.S is hated.

In addition, U.S uses Security Council, International monetary fund and

world trade organization as instruments to persecute people.

Execution of Saddam Hussein still until now the biggest question: Why
U.S has chosen November 30th, 2006, date of Eid –Aladha (Religious
festival for Muslims), Arabs peoples have named this day of execution
(the black day).

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 Choose this day was considered as challenge to all Arabs and Islamic
peoples. In fact, President George. W.Bush was able to choose an other
day for the execution of Saddam Hussein. This event add more and more
hatred against U.S.

Take a look on these news in ALJAZZERA.net UPDATED ON:

MONDAY, JANUARY 01, 2007
18:01 MECCA TIME, 15:01 GMT
(Most newspapers in the Arab world have reflected gloomily over the
execution of Saddam Hussein, with some predicting that the repercussions
will add to the deteriorating situation in Iraq.
The papers considered the timing of the execution, which fell on Eid al-
Adha that marked the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, offensive to
Sunnis as Shia celebrated the occasion one day later.

The Dubai-based English language daily Gulf News said in an editorial on

Monday: "Recent events in Iraq confirm that after three years of
occupation by the American-led forces, the issue has become far more
problematical and almost insoluble.

"The truth is, the US - or more precisely a stubborn Bush - has got itself
into a situation in which it sees no honourable way out.

"Some would argue, therefore, if it cannot be done honourably (thereby

justifying the deaths and injuries of all those young American lives) then it
must be done anyway, as long as the US gets out.

"There are pundits who claim the inevitable civil war is only being delayed
by a US presence, so if it is inevitable, then let the inevitable happen."

Qatari Arabic dailies Al-Watan and Al-Sharq said the "unwise and undue"
timing of Saddam's execution could further deepen the factional fracture
which all concerned parties were keen to avert.

The papers said it was not easy for the Iraqis to forget the politicised
execution of Saddam, screened worldwide, but urged warring rivals "to
resort to tolerance and reconciliation to end sectarian violence".

The Lebanese Arabic daily Al-Safir said that Saddam was the first Arab
president to be executed under occupation, saying the motivation was
political and reflects on the sectarian divide between Sunnis and Shia.

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Al Jazeera correspondent Hoda Abd al-Hamid said Baghdad had started to
come back to life on Monday, but that traditional New Year's celebrations
had not gone ahead.

She said mourning tents had been put up in Tikrit and people were
demonstrating near the village where Saddam was buried in a family plot
next to his two sons.)

In New York, the Reverend Jesse Jackson said on Monday that the
execution would not make the US safer and would only increase the
violence in Iraq.

"Killing him intensifies the violence, reduces our moral authority in the
world," said Jackson, who has travelled to the Middle East on peace
missions.

"Today we are not more secure. We're less secure. We've missed a moment
to appeal to those in Iraq to break the cycle of violence."

The deposed Iraqi president was hanged on Saturday, three years after
being captured. He was buried on Sunday.

Jackson, who spoke after preaching at the Canaan Baptist Church in

Harlem, said Osama bin Laden, not Saddam, was behind the September 11,
2001, attacks.

"Saddam Hussein didn't hit us. Bin Laden hit us," he said. "Iraq didn't hit
us. The Taliban hit us."

Jackson said the US was complicit in the trial and execution of Saddam by
the Iraqis "because we held him in our custody, and the government in Iraq
today is a government subsidised by the US".

In Morocco exactly in Casablanca January 8th, 2007 there was a great

march to condemn Saddam execution (
Thousand people on Sunday took to the streets in Casablanca to condemn
the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Organized by the Democratic Confederation of Labor (CDT), the
demonstration denounced this "assassination" and decried American
occupation of Iraq and the situation decline in this country.
In Algeria a woman 35 years had suicide just after hanging Saddam
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Hussein; her family said that the poor woman was shocked about the
pictures which showed the tragedy. in the same time many posters about
Saddam were offered by the newspaper Echo-chorouk.
Brandishing Saddam Hussein photos, the demonstrators condemned
"American terrorism that disdains international law".

In India a 15-year-old girl from eastern India hanged herself in response

to the execution of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, police and family
members said today. Read this extract from forum
http://www.yabiladi.com/forum/read-66-1591766.html

"She said they had hanged a patriot,'' the girl's father, Man Mohan
Karmakar, said from the town of Kharda.

"We didn't take her seriously when she told us that she wanted to feel the
pain Saddam did during the execution.''

He said his daughter, called Moon Moon, and had become extremely
depressed after watching Saddam's execution on television.

"She kept watching the scene over and again and didn't take food on
Saturday and Sunday to protest against the hanging,'' he said.

Police superintendent Pravin Kumar confirmed the suicide, saying the

girl had strung herself up from a ceiling fan and was found dead early on
Wednesday.

The communist-ruled state of West Bengal has condemned Saturday's

execution of Saddam, with thousands of people taking to the streets.

In Tunisia: TUNIS (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrators have denounced

Friday afternoon in Tunis, the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam
Hussein, calling it "unfair" the trial that led to the gallows during a rally at
the initiative of the Tunisian General Union of Labor (TGUL).
"By our soul, our blood, we sacrifice for you Saddam," chanted the
demonstrators whose meeting was supervised by a safety device.

Mohamed Ali meeting place, the headquarters of the union which was
drawn up a giant portrait of the "martyr Saddam", less than 1,000 trade
unionists, members of associations and lawyers led by Ben Moussa
Bâtonnier Abdessattar resumed slogans hostile to Washington as well as in
Tehran.
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"You lived a hero, you died a hero", "no imperialist interests in Arab land",
"honor to the martyrs, glory to the resistance, shame the valets (Arabic),"
proclaimed banners around the building TGUL.

The President of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights
(LDHR), Mokhtar Trifi, calling it "killing" the execution of Saddam
Hussein. However, the meeting was marked by an altercation between Mr.
Trifi and Tunisian lawyer for Saddam Hussein, Ahmed Seddik Me, which
criticized the LTDH "not having published any release since the arrest of
the former Iraqi president.

Tunisia after hanging

Saddam

In recent days, other pro-Saddam demonstrations have been held in Tunis

at the invitation of the opposition, the Bar and the union of education. AP

This execution had led to this picture

child with Gun

In fact this child needs a nice
toy.
So …………Why?

In fact, I don’t think that American people had read this news before
because of preoccupation with daily life. Jacob.G.Homberger said :( All
their lives, Americans had been taught that foreign policy was for federal

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“experts” and, thus, they had chosen not to concern themselves with what
their federal officials were doing to people abroad. Innocently believing
that federal overseas personnel, including the CIA and the military, had
been helping foreigners for decades; Americans had no reason to doubt the
official U.S. pronouncement immediately after 9/11: “We are innocent. The
terrorists hate us for our freedom and values. That’s why they have
attacked us.”)

So American people are not interested in U.S foreign policy, and they trust
on their experts politicians.

Manifestation just after Saddam’s execution

These are not the only reasons which make Arabs and Muslims people,
the sadly reason the support for the Arab regimes hated by their people.

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This is an article was written by Khalid Amayreh, October 2001 (The U.S.
has been, and continues to be, the sponsors, the sponsors and the
justification for the misery of my people in the last sixty years.

The USA are the authors of 60 years of suffering, death, loss, occupation,
oppression, deprivation of shelter and bullying.

The USA is the usurpers of the right of my people human rights,

democracy, civil liberties, development and a dignified life.
The U.S. accomplices and financiers of the occupation, segregation,
repression, terror, and theft of land by the Israelis.

The USA are the protectors, defenders, the engine and guarantors of
despotism, dictatorship, dynastic fiefdoms of, and autocracies and
theocracies, oligarchies, and monarchies brutal Muslim world.

The U.S. is the bad power that refuses to release my person from foreign
occupation of Nazi type who kills our children and steal our land.

The USA is the tyrant, the global dictatorship that deprives hundreds of
millions of Arabs and Muslims of their right to freely elect their government
and leaders because U.S fears of big business benefits of democracy in the
Muslim world.

The U.S. treat us, my people and me as the "children of a God of second
class.»

In fact, in the final analysis, the USA, I am only alternative:

Either accepts docilely enslavement and oppression ever, or I become an

Osama bin Laden. Honestly, there is no third way, and if any, show us.

I am not exaggerating at all. Everyone knows that politics and U.S.

behaviour in the Muslim world encourage extremism and moderation is
fail.
In fact, I dare say that the first leads inevitably to the second in a direct
cause and effect.

So, please the U.S., do not make me an Osama bin Laden.

I do not want to be. I hate to kill innocent people, because in our religion,
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to kill an innocent human being is tantamount to killing the entire human
race.

I know that the "hatred" is not a good thing. I try really not to allow my
hatred of the U.S. government and its murderous policy to move from its
static to its dynamic form.

However, others who may even hate the USA more than me will not be able
to keep as much cold-blooded, return their grievances, and remain "wise."

Static but hatred is ultimately a frozen anger, waiting the moment to

explode.
It has already exploded in the face of USA.

I know that hatred can be indiscriminate and deadly. But I also know that
oppression, as the Quran clearly states, is worse than murder.

Therefore, I try; even I try to make my hatred of the USA also reasonable,
as constructive, as humane as possible. And it is not because the U.S.
should be treated humanely.

Extermination of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Lebanese and

Palestinians do not deserve any respect.

They are despicable mass murderers of the same species as Hitler.

My goal and my people shall be free, free from Israeli oppression and
occupation commissioned and funded by the US.

I want to be freed from the Jewish occupation, apartheid and racism Jewish
Jew.

I want to be freed from a life of roadblocks, checkpoints, detention camps,

closed military zones, of "targeted assassinations" of confiscated land,
demolition of houses and, yes, daily massacres.

I also want to be free from hatred, even hatred toward the USA. But I know
too well that I can not be relieved of the effect as I would not be freed from
the cause and the cause is the greed, rapacity and hegemony U.S...

All we want is to be left in peace and live a normal life by exercising our
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rights and freedoms given by God. Like other human beings.
Is it too much to ask?

Please USA; do not make me an Osama Ben Laden.)

http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=1093&lg=fr

Israelians ask this question: why Arabs and Muslims hate U.S and Israel
too.

To understand why an article in the "Das Bild 'in German and translated
by Claude Lesselbaum.

(They burn the flag of Israel and the United States. They cry: "Death to
Jews! USA Death to the devil.
The Israeli air raids against Hamas in Gaza push extremist Muslims in the
streets, around the globe. Tens of thousands of them violently manifested in
the Arab and Islamic capitals.

Where does this hatred of Jews and their state?

One reason is that Israel is quite different from all its neighbours - it is a
democracy, only in the region. This is an open country in the world, happy
living, modern, successful, women have equal rights. This creates envy.
Especially among those who have nothing.
The journalist Michel Friedman: "It is indeed a war by proxy. Israel is the
Middle East forward position, the symbol of Western values hated by the
Arabs and Islamists: Freedom, Democracy, the consideration for the
dignity of man - but also the Instruction. The dominant class of Arab and
Islam would keep his youth in poverty and ignorance, because it is more
accessible to violence.)

Article published on 30 October 2008 on the Internet by "Das Bild," in

German and translated by Claude Lesselbaum

Here is an other article was written by a Saudi photographer Reem Al-

Faisal on Arab news Thursday 26 May 2005 (17 Rabi` al-Thani 1426 (A
few weeks ago an American I met at a friends house asked a much repeated
query, “Why do you the Muslims hate the Americans?” To which I
answered in the same way as all the preceding instances in which this
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question was posed to me: “We don’t hate the Americans, we might
disagree with a certain US policy and dislike recent American actions in
the Muslim world but we surely don’t hate the American people.”

The American who interrogated me was clearly not convinced with my

answer and secretly I wasn’t either. The truth is that at present the Muslims
hate America and now, they hate not only its policymakers but most of the
American people since they have proven recently without a shadow of
doubt that they agree with their elite by voting back into office, by a
comfortable majority, the Bush administration inspires of it’s obvious
record of lies and abuse of power. The Americans can never claim from
now on that they didn’t know that there where no weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq. They can’t claim that they didn’t know torture wasn’t
widespread in American prisons, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, and the
thousands of other secret detention canters. They surely can’t claim not to
know of this entire episode in which thousands have lost their lives and
much more have seen their homes and lands destroyed as a result of the
American military and its leaders who don’t hesitate in using the massive
destructive power of the US on defenceless civilians.

My American friend was right, we do hate them now, but he never asked
himself the question “Why?” Why a people living on the other side of the
planet should feel any sort of emotion toward the Americans, be it hate or
love? Does anyone ever ask if the Muslims hate the Chileans or love the
Chinese or dislike the Uruguayans? No, we are forever asked to express
some sort of intense emotion toward the Americans. So, I have to admit
finally, after decades of relations with the US, that they have convinced us
that we should feel something and that our feelings have been boiled down
today to pure hate. And why not? What have we as a people seen from the
US in the past half century but an absence of respect for Muslim life,
culture or religion, contempt and disregard for our rights and finally
murder and torture from Afghanistan to Iraq.

The US has further driven us to dislike America with its blind support for a
colonialist power such as Israel, in fact the only one left in the region.
Whenever we have tried in the past to help alleviate the plight of the
Palestinians we only got vetoed by the US at the UN Security Council
followed by the free flow of arms and money to kill our fellow compatriots
from Palestine to Lebanon. And whenever we Arabs try to get arms to
defend ourselves against one of the strongest armies in the world, which
has never hesitated in using its destructive power with impunity against us,

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we are blocked by America from acquiring the means by which we could
defend ourselves.

We have watched America attack us, destroy us, impose embargoes against
our nations and then conquer our lands, imprison our people and generally
deal with us as though we are savage animals whereby every single law be
it international or even American is totally disregarded when it concerns
the rights of Arab and Muslim individuals. Then they ask us why we hate
them? Tell me why do you hate us? What terrible crime have the Muslims
committed against you in the past to deserve your interminable enmity?
What have we done to see you rampage through our lands destroying and
killing, and then claiming obscenely that it was worth it for the sake of
liberty and democracy?

Is it worth it for the million and a half Iraqis murdered in the embargo or
the thousands of Afghans killed by your ever so “smart” bombs? Or should
we ask the Iraqis of today, whom you’ve killed by the thousands? Was all
this death and destruction worth it for them? Did you ever bother to ask
their opinion before you played God with the lives and destinies of this
nation?

Finally, you take aim at our religion by humiliating our beliefs. You abuse
our book, use our convictions to torture us and degrade us, disregarding
your own laws and religion which is as noble as ours and to which torture
and humiliation is anathema.

What were you thinking when you threw the Qur’an in the toilet or when
you used religion as a means of torture? I fail to see the efficacy of such
actions in the so-called war on terror. These methods only point to a deep
sickness in your society to which it will take decades for us and the rest of
the world to understand its cause and to measure its destructive results. No,
the question which someday will have to be answered is why, why do you
the Americans hate us the Muslims so much?)

I try really hard to point out the reasons for this feeling through the
presentation of pictures and articles were published across the Arab and
Islamic press.

There is no doubt that Americans themselves also have this feeling (hatred)
towards Arabs and Muslims, and feel that the Arabs and Muslims constitute
a real threat to the security and comfort and quiet of their lives.
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Many articles were published about that subject, and many opinions were
made on forums.

At a forum site (http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f54/10-reasons-

americans-hate-muslims-414843/)they they fixed 10 points to make
Americans hate Arabs and Muslims.

Originally posted by melancholy

10 reasons STUPID Americans hate the Muslims

1) the Koran is evil

2) Muslims are hell bent on conquering the world
3) they want to impregnate good Christian women with little habit’s and
akbar's
4) they're brown, dress funny and speak a funny language
5) politicians and Hollywood movies say they are bad people
6) they kill civilians and that's bad. Only Christians and Jews are allowed
to kill civilians.
8) they're jealous of the US
9) they hate freedom
10) it's a new cool fad to hate Muslims and America is the trend leader of
the world

10 reasons SMART Americans hate the Muslims

1) they don't let the US control their oil

2) they refuse to let the US interfere with their domestic policies
3) they dare to think they can act as sovereign people and have self
determination
4) they want freedom from Western control
5) they mess with Israel, a strategic ally
6) they're uppity enough to actually CHOOSE something for themselves
other than accept democracy like the US told them to
7) the US would be so much richer and more powerful to have them under
control
8) they don't buy American products
9) having them as the enemy is a great way to control the American
populace
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10) every empire needs an enemy to stay on top of its game, otherwise the
empire decays quicker.

Why do Muslims hate the U.S. government?

By Arif Maftuhin
17 January 2006

(Seattle - I was surprised recently when I was going to downtown Seattle. A

friend of mine working there told me, "Here is the place we observe Friday
prayers". The fact that he was a pious, white American Muslim was pretty
surprising; but what made me more surprised was the place he showed me:
it was not a mosque, but a church!

The church, attended by its congregation mainly on the weekends, provides

one of its rooms for Muslims in downtown Seattle to observe Friday
prayers. While the Muslim community does rent this room, the fact they can
share the church would be unimaginable in the Indonesian context.

There are many cases we can learn from. At Boston University, according
to Ulil Abshar Abdalla, Muslims observed tarawih last month in a hall
called Sacred Place where believers of any faith can observe their prayers
and services.

During Ramadhan, in the program called Fast-Thon, hundreds of non-

Muslim Americans joined the Muslim Student Association in my university
to fast for one day. Like Muslims, they did not eat or drink from dawn to
dusk.

The U.S. is very tolerant of any religious life. Its constitution, particularly
the First Amendment, guarantees all citizens the right to have and express
their faith.

While some Muslims in other parts of the world want an Islamic state to
guarantee the right to practice their religion, some American Muslims I
have met said they do not need an Islamic state.

Why? America gives them most of what they need to be a pious Muslim
without it being an Islamic state. For sure, it is not a perfect country.
However, has an Islamic state existed and given anything better than what
America has?
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In the U.S., Muslims of Somalia, Cambodia, and Palestine have found
asylum and help. They live a better life and are more secure in this non-
Islamic country.

Thus, why do Muslims hate America? Why is America and its interests the
target of Muslim hatred?

The answer is that, in fact, Muslims do not hate America, but rather the
interventionist policy of the U.S. government. The presence of U.S. troops
in the Muslim heartland, Saudi Arabia, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait,
was the supposed reason behind the Sept. 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of
Afghanistan and Iraq are the main reason for the many suicide bombings in
the last three years.

It seems that both Muslims and the U.S. government do not pay attention to
where their relations intersect.

In relation to the Muslim world and the U.S., actually there are four entities
involved: the American Government and the American people on the one
hand; and the Muslim world and American Muslims on the other.

In the country named the United States of America, there is a government

that does not necessarily represent Americans as a nation. In the Muslim
world, there are American Muslims, the citizens of the hated America.

Unfortunately, these four entities have been lazily simplified into two
polarised entities: Muslims and the U.S., my side or your side, my interests
or your interests.

The neglected interconnectivity is complicated and costly to both sides.

The beautiful picture of Muslim and U.S. relations mentioned above has
been overshadowed by the negative aspects of those two worlds: the bad
foreign policy of the American government toward Islamic countries; and
the bad reaction of radical Muslims.

The victims of neglected interconnectivity, we may expect, are always the

good parts of both entities: non-radical Muslims and anti-Bush Americans.

The victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack were innocent Americans, non-
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Muslims as well as American Muslims. They might not agree with their
government and they did not deserve to die in the attacks.

On the other hand, the victims of the war on terrorism are innocent
Muslims. In the U.S., many innocent American Muslims are arrested
without due process. In Europe and Australia, a number of mosques were
closed by the government.

In Indonesia, many pesantren (Islamic boarding schools), orphanages, and

Islamic foundations, have lost financial aid from wealthy Middle Eastern
countries as the U.S. government has forced its allies to cut the suspected
relationship between the flow of riyal and the terrorist network.

We should not wait any longer to realise these complexities. The hatred in
the Muslim world proliferated by the interventionist policy of the U.S.
government in Islamic countries and the overreaction of U.S. government
policy triggered by terrorist actions should be stopped right now.

The radical Muslims have to realise that their project has brought more
disadvantages than benefits to the Muslim world. If they really want to fight
for the Muslim world, they need to recalculate what Muslims have
experienced after Sept. 11.

The U.S. government needs to understand, as many American political

experts have recommended, that their interventionist policy has triggered
more hatred and induced more young Muslims to become suicide bombers.

Muslims may hate Bush for his interventionist and arbitrary policies, but
they are not alone in arguing against Bush's policy; many Americans do
too.

Muslims should not hate America because Americans are not Bush; and
because American Muslims do love their country. What should American
Muslims do if Muslims in the rest of the world hate their beloved country?)
Source: The Jakarta Post, January 5, 2006

Visit the website at www.thejakartapost.com

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Muslims Ask: Why Do They Hate Us?

By Chris Toensing, AlterNet. Posted September 25, 2001.

(In December 1998, I met a waiter in the quiet Egyptian port of Suez. As I
sipped tea in his cafe, he pulled up a chair to chat, as Egyptians often do to
welcome strangers. Not long into our amiable repartee, he looked me in the
eye.

"Now I want to ask you a blunt question," he said. "Why do you Americans
hate us?" I raised my eyebrows, so he explained what he meant and, in
doing so, provided some insights into why others hate us.

Numerous United Nations resolutions clearly define Israel's occupation of

the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem as illegal. Yet Israel
receives 40 percent of all US foreign aid, more than $3.5 billion annually
in recent years, roughly $500 per Israeli citizen. (The average Egyptian
will earn $656 this year.)

Israel uses all of this aid to build new settlements on Palestinian land and
to buy US-made warplanes and helicopter gunships. "Why do Americans
support Israel when Israel represses Arabs?" the waiter asked.

He went on: Evidence clearly shows that the US-led economic sanctions on
Iraq punish Iraqi civilians while hardly touching Saddam Hussein's regime.
A UNICEF study in 1999 backed him up, saying that 500,000 children
under five would be alive today if sanctions did not exist. Surely Iraqi
children are not enemies of international peace and security, the waiter
expostulated, even if their ruler is a brutal dictator.

The United States presses for continued sanctions because Hussein is

flouting United Nations resolutions, but stands by Israel when it has flouted
UN Resolution 242 (which urges Israel to withdraw from land occupied in
the 1967 War) for over 30 years. Arabs and Muslims suffer from these and
other US policies.

The only logic this young Egyptian could see was that America was
pursuing a worldwide war against Islam, in which the victims were
overwhelmingly Muslim. America is a democracy, he concluded, so
Americans must hate Muslims to endorse this war.

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I groaned inwardly. Here, I thought, was a person as woefully misinformed
about America as most Americans are about the Middle East.
Painstakingly, in my rusty Arabic, I explained that although the United
States is a democracy, we Americans do not choose our government's
allies, nor do we select its adversaries. We do not vote on the annual
foreign aid budget. There are no referenda on the ballot asking whether the
United States should send abundant aid to Israel, or whether the United
States should pressure the UN Security Council into maintaining sanctions
against Iraq, or whether the Fifth Fleet should prowl the Persian Gulf to
protect our oil supply.

Americans do have the ability to vote out of office politicians who embrace
various foreign policies, but Americans rarely have accurate information
about the effect of those policies, in the Middle East or elsewhere. If they
knew, I argued, they would speak up in opposition, because Americans
have a fundamental sense of fairness. I concurred that it was imperative to
debunk Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims as wild-eyed, Koran-
waving fanatics. These are pernicious ideas that stand in the way of fair
judgment.

Our conversation lasted for hours. When we reached a pause, the waiter
invited me to dinner at his house. There I met his brother, a devout Muslim.
He too asked me why America hates Arabs and Muslims. I spent two more
hours talking with him. When I left, he told me warmly how happy he was
"to connect with an American on a human level." He and I shook hands like
old friends, as we agreed that both Americans and Arab Muslims should
strive to puncture the myth that "we" are somehow essentially different
from "them."

A civilized human society cannot afford to think in those tribal terms. That
type of thinking leads to despair, and thence to wholly unjustifiable
disasters such as Americans have just experienced. Most Americans who
have lived or travelled in the Arab world can relate similar experiences:
Arabs are entirely capable of differentiating between a people and the
actions of its government, or the values of a people and the political agenda
of a narrow minority of them. What confuses, and, yes, angers them is that
we do not seem to return the favor.

Scant days after I returned from Suez to Cairo, President Clinton ordered
US fighter-bombers to attack Iraq, ostensibly because Hussein had expelled
UN weapons inspectors from his country. The "surgical strikes" of
Operation Desert Fox, like previous and subsequent campaigns, maimed
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and killed defenceless Iraqi civilians. Meanwhile, virtually every news
outlet in Egypt ran pictures of grinning US seamen painting "Happy
Ramadan" on the missiles destined for Baghdad. Those pictures mocked the
suffering of Muslims, just as they mocked my attempts at playing cultural
ambassador.

To the Arab and Muslim world, Americans project an image of utter

indifference to the Iraqi civilian casualties of sanctions and bombing --
people who were also "moms and dads, friends and neighbours," as
President Bush said of the Americans we mourn today. During Desert Fox,
there was no outrage at the callous black humour of the missile-painters, or
the purposeful insult to Islam's holy month. Despite the obvious failure of
bombing to achieve our stated objective (ridding Iraq of Hussein), and the
harm done to innocents in the process, no mass anti-war movement spilled
into our streets to force a change in US policy. Hardly anyone has
suggested since that US officials should be held accountable for wilful acts
of terror, though terror is surely what Iraqis must feel when bombs rain
from the sky.

Only days after Desert Fox, the Iraq story faded from the front pages
entirely, and the nation returned to its obsession with the Monica Lewinsky
scandal. What could that waiter in Suez have been thinking of my careful
distinctions then?

He does not have "links" to Osama bin Laden. He is not a prospective

suicide bomber, nor would he defend their indefensible actions. Today I
have no doubt that he feels intense sympathy for "us."

After watching unjust US policies continue for years without apology, after
hearing of incidents of racist anti-Arab backlash following the execrable
crimes of Sept. 11, perhaps he also senses great tragedy in that the
hijackers spoke to Americans in a language the US government speaks all
too well abroad.)

Source: Chris Toensing is the editor of Middle East Report, published by

the Middle East Research and Information Project, a Washington, DC-
based think tank.

But do all Arabs and Muslims hate U.S?

Not all Muslims hate America

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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) , May 9, 2006 by James Sloan Allen
Christian Science Monitor

(We have grown sadly used to hearing that the rest of the world,
particularly the Islamic world, hates America. But here is some good news.
It comes from hundreds of firsthand reports by participants in exchange
programs under the American Councils for International Education. Here
are samples from participants in some Islamic countries.

People from these countries who spend time in the United States under
exchange programs not only prize the democratic culture they find here;
more important, they typically go home bent on instilling the virtues of
America in their own nations -- like the teacher who exclaimed: "I was
back in Turkmenistan! Back in my home country! I made up my mind to do
whatever I could to make my country a better place to live" because
"America inspired me and showed me what was possible."

Here are some similar examples of this good news from the predominantly
Islamic region of the former Soviet Union, a crucial front in the war of
ideas with autocracy and Islamic fundamentalism.

In Azerbaijan, a young woman declares, "My understanding of the meaning

of life has totally changed" since she resided in the United States.
Surprisingly, she reports that this is partly because after experiencing
America's "freedom of speech and belief and the respect for law and
government . . . I started to read the Quran and came to my religion and
understanding of it only in the U.S., not in my country." At the same time,
touched by "how the American people care about and help" others, she
vowed to "do my best to have an open and big heart and help those who
need it."

Today she is a Muslim with democratic ideals who has thrown herself into
the work of securing rights for children.

In Kazakhstan, numerous teachers moved by American freedoms and social

equality say they are now endeavoring within their schools and among
adults outside to create an "open civil society" and make their homeland "a
real democratic country" like America.

In Tatarstan (a Russian republic north of Kazakhstan), a woman struck by

America's ethnic tolerance strives to foster this at home by dissuading her
countrymen from quarreling over the question: "Should Tatar people
support their Muslim brothers or be united with their Russian neighbors?"
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To achieve this end, she is creating an ambitious community-wide
multicultural educational program.

In Uzbekistan, a woman returned from legal studies in the United States

and an internship at the United Nations to become an influential law
professor and establish innovative courses such as "Constitutional Law"
and "Women's Rights under Islam." Another young woman returned to
launch a crusade "to improve the status of women," beginning with summer
camps for girls to "increase their self- esteem by teaching them their basic
rights." Yet another young woman concerned that "terrorism is threatening
the peace of the world," is using her American MBA training to instigate
"democratic and economic reforms" that will "create a true democratic
society and build a bridge of friendship between the USA and Uzbekistan."

In Tajikistan, a young man who says he had "become stronger, active, free
and more responsible" in the United States set out "to study everything
related to human rights" and to serve that cause. He then joined the
Republic Bureau of Human Rights and the Rule of Law, a human rights
protection organization, where he organizes legal clinics for his fellow
Tajiks, reports on human rights violations in prisons, and helps a U.N.
agency monitor Tajik laws for their compliance with the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

In Kyrgyzstan, a teacher says she discovered in America that "democracy is

not just a beautiful word that allows everyone to do whatever one likes" but
instead means "freedom, but responsibility." She adopted these three words
as her motto and now teaches "what a democratic state is," while planning
"a new democratic school" devoted to spreading the principles of
democracy throughout "the life of the community and the country." Another
Kyrgyz person, who proclaims that "the U.S. won an ally in me" when he
was an exchange student here, is acting on his commitment by coordinating
a coalition of 55 "NGOs for Democratic Civil Society" and by preparing to
run for parliament as a vigorous advocate of American democratic ideals.

Although these examples are few and anecdotal, they represent hundreds of
people who bring us the good news from the war of ideas that America can
indeed nurture democratic culture in Islamic and other developing
countries without firing a shot.

It can do this by inviting to our shores, educating, and otherwise

enlightening, ever more of the individuals (many of them women, as the

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examples here show) who will shape the democratic futures of those
countries -- if those countries are to have democratic futures at all.)

Source: James Sloan Allen is the author of "Worldly Wisdom: Great Books
and the Meaning(s) of Life," to be published next year.

Many European writers had tried to understand why Arabs and Muslims
peoples hated U.S.

Read Proliferator-in-chief

• Leader
• The Guardian, Thursday 26 July 2001 10.48 BST
• Article history

(George Bush's administration yesterday blasted another lethal hole in the

vital structure of multilateral arms agreements that has so far protected
most of the world from the worst dangers of the modern military age.
America's lone, wanton wrecking of long-running negotiations to enforce
the 1972 treaty banning biological or germ weapons is an insult to the
pact's 142 other signatories, a body-blow for the treaty itself and a major
setback for international efforts to agree practical curbs on the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

By this action, the US suggests that its national security interests, narrowly
defined, and the commercial interests of its dominant biotechnology sector
should take precedence over responsible global collaboration to meet a
common threat. By rejecting the proposed inspection regime, it further,
dangerously, suggests to others that the US is not really worried about
germ-warfare controls and wants to develop its own, advanced biological
weapons.

This in turn could have a serious impact on continuing efforts to bolster the
equally important chemical weapons convention. Since Tony Blair's
government has been particularly active in promoting the BWC
enforcement protocol, it may now be expected to be particularly active in
condemning this latest piece of Bush vandalism. Jack Straw should summon
the US ambassador, a Bush appointee, to the Foreign Office and demand
an explanation.
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The US move confirms a pattern of reckless, unilateralist behavior on arms
control, as on environmental and other issues. Since taking office, Mr. Bush
has spoken in grandiose terms of the need for "new thinking" and for a
"new strategic framework". But to date, this supposed post-cold war global
security "vision" has largely amounted to trashing existing agreements
without any clear idea of what to put in their place.

Mr. Bush scorns the concept of deterrence, based on mutually assured

destruction, but fails to explain how the world can safely live without it. He
plans to resume nuclear testing, undermining the comprehensive test ban
treaty. He intends to breach the anti-ballistic missile treaty. He wants to
develop "bunker-buster" battlefield warheads, ignoring the nuclear non-
proliferation treaty. He emasculated recent UN attempts to regulate small
arms and light weaponry. Meanwhile, he is dusting off Ronald Reagan's
plans to deploy space weapons - plans that Mr. Reagan's former rival,
Jimmy Carter, tersely described this week as "technologically ridiculous".

Yet all this charging about in the arms control crockery shop does little or
nothing to reduce the biggest actual, as opposed to hypothetical, threat:
that posed by relatively cheap, easily produced biological and chemical
weapons and by "portable" nukes that may be obtained by transnational
terrorists. Indeed, by deflecting attention and resources, it makes it worse.
In recent days, four instances of smuggling of nuclear-related material
have come to light in Europe. This coincides with a review of Clinton era
schemes to help Russia safeguard or dispose of stockpiles. One $2.1bn
programme, to destroy military plutonium, faces cancellation. Others may
be offered with political strings attached. No wonder the black market is
booming.

The so-called "rogue states" are not the principal problem - and missile
defence is certainly no answer. The core problem is proliferation - and the
undermining of painstakingly agreed, multilateral arms control structures.
Instead of helping, Commander-in-chief Bush is fast becoming the new
proliferators-in-chief. )

Today is not Arab and Islamic peoples the only who hate America , on
the contrary , America gained new enemies in all the word , that is
reflected in many manifestations all over the world , from France to

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 Korea. You can visit internet websites to see millions of pictures and
videos about these manifestations.

Many caricatures all over the world against U.S policy:

Iran against U.S

Korea against U.S

A South Korean Catholic nun walks by a cutout depicting a caricature of a

cow infected with mad-cow disease during a candlelight vigil protesting
against U.S. beef imports in front of the Seoul City Hall.

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 Egyptian caricature

Cheque people against Bush administration

French people against Bush

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French people against bush administration

World are plotting against U.S

Fight against US.

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At last American people should know the truth, Arabic and Muslims
peoples doesn’t hate you, instead every one of us like to live with you
because of your generous .Arabic and Muslims people hate U.S
government policy.

In fact Americans are peaceful people and people of peace, hate wars
wherever they are, hate injustice and tyranny.

American people was the first people who was against bush
administration, we have many pictures about this subject.

All these pictures show courage and nobility of Americans:

Picture 1

Picture 2

Caricature 1

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Picture 3

Picture 4

Picture 5

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We must recognize today that Barrack Obama have to do his best to
change this ugly picture of America in Arabs and Muslims minds. And
the question will be in the future: why they love us? And I’m sure that all
Arab and Muslim peoples will say in all honesty: we love you because
you are the bright picture of justice in the entire world.

Perhaps Mr.obama will be like George Washington or Woodrow Wilson.

In bog edition (http://www.kyle-brady.com/2009/05/11/how-obama-can-

change-american-politics-forever/) an American has written

(With an approval rating that continues to be the highest seen in our

brief American history, Obama is what a large majority of the country
seems to have desired – especially among the younger generations. Rush
Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and the rest of the GOP are not helping matters
by continuing to drive young voters, intellectuals, and the rationally-
minded away from the elephantine party. Not necessarily turning
Republicans into Democrats, but nonetheless alienating growing
numbers of Americans).

All humanity needs love and peace.

Remember now together the poem of Fanny Crosby (1820-1915)

American hymn writer, this woman who was blind but she was seeing
truth by her great brave,and generous heart, and she was hopeful
woman.

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
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 Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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