Are Hamas and Hezbollah really that bad of a group?

Question

We have them here in the Arab community in and around Dearborn Michigan. ( Home to 500,000 Arabs.) For the most part they are only helping their people. They fund hospital, schools, Welfare programs, and feed the poor. Everyone here in my area helps Hamas and Hezbollah by giving them money. It's like the red cross. Now don't get down on Arab people because they are great people. Like I said. There are 500,000 of them here in my area and guess what? The American Government allows them to stay and live here so get used to the Arabs.

Answer 1

I suppose their militant part is not so good, but I support them because Hamas are only trying to get back their homeland which were taken from them by the West and given to Israel. Hizbullah was formed when Israel last attacked Lebannon in 1982, (formed 1984) to defend their country because the Lebanese army had no chance. The irony of the whole situation is, Britain helped the Arabs fight the Ottoman Empire for independence in WWI, and also helped create basic infrastructure. America later fought with them against the USSR. Now they hate each other to the ends of the earth...

Answer 2

This question highlights one of the complications the US is encountering in dealing with these groups.

Both Hamas and Hezbollah have a strong community support element. They provide supplies and services to poor people in Arab communities in many countries, and by doing so have established a strong public support base in those communities.

These organizations also have the militaristic and terrorist elements which the US and many other countries are working against. The strong public support due to the community service mission provides the organizations with outlets for recruiting, fundraising, and makes it hard to wage military campaigns against them, as members can hide amongst the civilian populations dependent upon the organizations for support.

People considering donating money to the humanitarian programs associated with Hamas and Hezbollah should bear in mind that there are no real controls to prevent that money being spent on the guns and bombs being used to kill, torture, maim and otherwise terrorize civilians opposed to their causes. I would suggest giving money to other organizations such as Red Cross/Red Crescent which perform a similar humanitarian function without a military wing.

Answer 3

Perhaps they're allowed to stay because they conduct themselves as good members of society. Perhaps it's because they aren't climbing on board busses and walking about shopping malls before they pull the pin on a grenade. Yet.

If you don't think some of these people may be sympathizers to the cause or even supply or plot then that would be very naieve on anyone's part. You'd hope not but unless they break the law then they carry on their business just like us.

Finally, perhaps these people enjoy the freedom and prosperity they've achieved here. They must see it certainally is better than the alternative back home.

Answer 4

You will be asking for safe haven for Al Qaeda next!

Terrorists are terrorist. Look at both Hezbollah's and Hamas's aims. Death, Annihilation etc!!!!

Of course the majority of Arabs are nice people. Practically all of them want to be able to live in peace within secure borders. It is the terrorist of Hamas and Hezbollah that are preventing this.

Answer 5

Yes, they are sweet, aren't they? I hearken back to 9/11 when those very same lovely people in Dearborn were dancing in the streets over the murder of three thousand people.

If you don't think that the money you are giving to those groups are going to fund terrorism at all levels, then you are foolish. And if you don't think they'd kill you or your parents or your babies as evil Americans as soon as look at you then you are even more foolish. And we wonder how this evil continues?

Answer 6

American Muslims are as a general rule pretty tolerant really exemplify the precept that their religion is a religion of love and tolerance. Hezbollah and Hamas are terrorist organizations, funded by Syria and Iran. If you don't believe that, then wrap yourself in tin-foil for easy identification

Answer 7

We appreciate the generosity of American and the kindness of Arabs there.But Hamas and Hezbollah are really cruel who are killing innocent people almost every day.

Answer 8

Yes. They fill hospitals, blow up schools, and bomb Israelis. If everyone here in your area helps Hamas and Hezbollah by giving them money then you are funding a war against Israeli. Watch and listen to the news. Israel obeyed the UN resolution five years ago, and all I've seen are attacks by homicide bombers. Yes homicide not suicide, the set off their bombs to kill civilians.

Answer 9

well its not all the Arab are equally bad what really needs to looked here is what many of them believe in. it is said your believe is your leader it will guide you where you should be going if many of them be live that all the world should change to Islam and you should have one system what is mention their holy book then the real trouble starts if you are programmed from your very childhood what is right and correct than it becomes very difficult to face the reality although it is in front of your eye you live with foolish idea of utopia that god will come in end and reward us for killing so many innocent and send us to heaven.

Answer 10

i'm an American, so i visit make some factors in reaction. a million. we are no longer an isolationist united states of america anymore. If there is an apprehension corporation however it does no longer attack American pastimes, that does no longer replace its type as an apprehension corporation. 2. Your accusation that Israel shoots rockets at Gaza is fake, specious and indicative of your brush aside of the certainty in want of polemic. 3. Syria is a repressive dictatorship. Syria has dealt with Lebanon as a shopper united states of america for 25 years. Syria is amazingly, very heavily aligned with Iran. 4. That Hizbollah represses al Qaeda in Lebanon possibly has more effective to do with Hizbollah being Shi'ite and al Qaeda being Sunni. Al Qaeda has no qualms about blowing up Shi'ite mosques in Iraq and Pakistan. Forgot that little certainty, did not you? 5. I strongly, strongly doubt that practising Christians, of any nationality, knowingly blew up themselves with the intention to kill civilians with the intention to attain martyrdom. tutor me incorrect. 6. Hizbollah, the party of Allah, is secular? incorrect. Now all of us comprehend your arguments are complete of crap.