Are the Americans aware about the growing hate and hostility in the Arab and Muslim world?

Question

The Arab and Muslim world is propagating a great sense of hate against the USA and this sensation is progressively increasing day after day...Some reasons for this are:
1.The ultimate support to the main natural enemy of the Arabs : Israel.An example is during 1973 war betwween Israel and Egypt in Sinai when American fighters and bombers with the American flag were fighting with the Israeli army!
2.American occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan.
3.Sucking the resources of these countries and trying to control oil resources even by war like what happened in Gulf wars.
4.The American media is dealing with Muslims as a fixed protype or a model of Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists and ignoring other Muslim and Arab examples like Ahmed Zuwel who is one of the greatest scientests in this age.
The question is : what is your response to this and what do you think you should do to change this method of thinking?

Answer 1

But as much as they gather their hate. The Muslims will answer your question best.

They know that the American political system and its people are seperate entities. They know Americans are not these political people that vote on issues and make sure their government is not doing things like you mentioned.

They know all this because the Saddam Husseins, Osama Bin Ladens and Iranian Presidents of the world will openly send messages to the American public trying to "inform" us of what the government is doing. In a sense they are trying to tell on our government.

For example, Saddam has sent numerous letters to the papers telling the american people what Bush did and how he manipulated the evidence and there being no weapons.

Another example, Bin Laden during the election sends a message out telling Americans what is needed to change this current situation.

The bottom line is they know that the American people while are somewhat too blame for their governments' action. They know they are not wholly responsible its kind of weird but that is the case.

I like to think of it as Americans are just on a constant vacation while the government handles the serious stuff and once in a while we vote and change governments and not pay attention to details.

Its not the best situation but its the way things are. Muslims whom are garnering all this hate know that the average American has no clue why Bin Laden would want to do what he did.

The average US government official would.

The average American has 0 clue about the war of 1973.

The US government does.

Anything the US government did that is bad we dont really want to hear it, the facts are to fuzzy to decipher, and finally we are on vacation so stop it.

Thats the mentality.

So to answer the Q no there is no point to change the thinking. Just coping with the status is fine with me.

I think we are in trouble personally cause we are just falling so far behind in education. We're not falling militarily but we face a crisis of being stupid and therefore doing stupid things in the future.

Im still stunned we don't have higher voter turnout. I hear Iraq had a bigger turnout than here!! Im going back on vacation!

Answer 2

Yes Americans are VERY aware of this growing hostility!
Why are they aware?
Cause their countries friggin let Osama Bin Laden fly two Jet planes into the world trade towers! another into the Pentagon and had it not been for some hero's who thwarted the terrorists there would have been another flown into our nations capitol.
So lets see....... do we know the middle east is pissed?
Yea... we got the idea

1) We helped Iseral because Egypt (who was by the way, sideing with Russia, our natural enemy at the time) Attacked... So we helped Isreal to stop not only Egypt, but keep the Soviet's from taking another nation and pushing it into communism. Oh and theres also the fact that Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and Syria
all ganged up on Isreal, 4 to 1........ bullies

2) We are in Iraq and Afghanistan because both countries need fixing. Iraqies shouldn't complain because we got that idiot sadam out of office, and we are trying to set up a stable and productive government, sadly there are some idiots who would rathar live under a tyrant who kills his own fellow citizens for no good reason at all. Wether we found Nuclear Weapons or not, everyone knows they had them, If the want to know where they went, maybe we should look in Syria. We are in Afghanistan because thats were Osama was, and we want to find him, If the Afghans didnt want us in their country then they should have stopped the terrorist attacks, but they didnt so now they can shut up and deal with it.
3) As for sucking resources..... hey we are putting alot of money and effort into fixing their messed up deadbeat countries and we deserve a little oil for it. Besides once ethonol cars start becoming more popular, we wont need the oil as much, and the Middle east will pay for the high gas prices they are forceing on us now.
4) Our media isnt smart all of the time, Ill admit that. But lets be honest here, hooray for Ahmed Zuwel, but a good portion of Muslims in the middle east are terrorists. Maybe they wouldnt be a fixed protype of Osama Bin Laden if they didnt support him. In the United States we like are muslims, we dont have a promblem with them. But once they start supporting terrorist countries, instead of Uncle Sam, well then they are just as horrible as Osama. Oh and why is the rest of the world dealing with Americans as a fixed protype or model of George W. Bush and ignoring other American examples?

I dont think any of these methods of thinking are wrong. Everyone is forgeting 9/11. Support the war
Support our Troops, and go cry about it if you dont like what were doing.

And hey if you don't like us taking Oil, why dont you sell that giant SUV you drive, and buy a hybrid from an AMERICAN auto company

Answer 3

All media makes the people of the middleeast look like monsters...the media puts an idea into each one of American Heads that each Muslim or Arab is a bad egg and that it is our duty to go into those countries and stop these people with our forces and then put in a government that we are more familiar with......right now Hezbollah is seen as a terrorist group to us in the US while Israel is seen as a freedom fighter...but the reality in the Middle East is that Hezbollah is fighting for the freedom of Lebanon and that Israel with its way advanced weapon from the US is the terrorist....I mean Israel has killed SOOO many more INNOCENT people in Lebanon that Hezbollah has in Israel, so why do we, Americans, believe Israel if fighting for good...Even the UN's plans for the outcome favors Israel and give Lebanon NOTHING.... Israel has been occupying Lebanon for decades and Hezbollah has put its foot down by taking pows, but in fact Israel has taken more pows since its illegal occupation since the 70s....well there is not much I am able to do, but I can try and inform the people of yahoo answers and allow the news to spread all around the US because only then can we rise against this faulty administration

Answer 4

I think that overall we Americans are self-absorbed which is why we are involved in foreign affairs that seemingly have no resolution. But the reality is that they do have a resolution... it just escapes most Americans because the extent of the knowledge ends at 11 o'clock when the news goes off.

Consequently, there are real resolutions but, to understand exactly the position your government is playing you would need to know about...

*World Zionist Organization
*European persecution of Jews prior to WWII
*The Fall of the Ottoman Empire
*The distribution of Ottoman Provinces (mandates) to Britain, France, etc.
*The Weizmann-Faisal Agreement
*The War of 1948 (Arab-Israeli Conflict)

The American people don’t know much about the foreign relations of their own government over the past 100 years. And as a result people in general only know of the US’s relationship to the Middle-East as it relates to maybe the last 20 years, maybe 30 but that is a big stretch.

Its time to get serious... and bring scholasticism and learning to a country engrossed in materialism and power.

Wasalaam
Chief Editor: Wa Salaam - A Muslim-American Journal
http://wasalaam.wordpress.com/

Answer 5

I dont know this scientist but I will have to google him. I am not sure of the answer but it does seem to be humanistic triat to lump all people in one category. You say Arabs are being generalized into a prototype that Americans agree with (bascially this is what your saying) Well then I have been a victime of this same crime. I dont have hatred towards Muslims. I dont see all members of one group as being the same. I am also an individual and if an Arab hates me simpy becuase I was born in America than I am being done the same injustice you stated.

Answer 6

Man, you SO over-estimate Americans.

a.) Do you think they know what Islam is?
b.) Do you think they know there is a muslim world?
c.) Do you think they know where it is? (there's a great clip on the net, some aussie asking the yanks where Iran is, and when they should blow it up. Except, he sticks an Iran label on Australia. Not one yank worked it out!)
d.) Do you think they care? God talks to Bush you know. Most other countries would have put him in a safe, padded cell, and given him a fashionable white jacket with extra long sleeves that belt down securely. The yanks let him run their country!!
e.) It is ALL about oil. The yanks are very unconcerned about "dictators" who kill people in countries where there is no oil!!
f.) The American public expects to be lied to by their presidents. It is part of their constitution.
g.) It is VERY un-american to think for yourself, or have an opinion.

Answer 7

I think that Muslims are doing the samethings that Americans are doing. They are generalizing bacause of a few bad apples. I know that americans have invaded...for example, Afganistan...we invaded to get the terriosts...who just happend to be the government....People can't tell me they wanted to Taliban to stay in power...and Iraq.....do you really want to tell me that Iraq and the people would be happier when the war is done and the new gov is in place and working or with Saddam.....Muslims only see the bad things about america just as we only hear about the extremist groups of Muslims and Arabs....it is lose lose situation.

Answer 8

Arabs dont hate Americans, they hate their governments support of Israel. Unfortuantely, Ussama Bin F**kin Ladin crossed the line and personafide Islam into a Terrorist Religion.

Islam is peace.

Peace on earth.

Answer 9

The US and Israel are no more despised today than they were on 9/10/01. It doesn't matter. Look how many Arabs and Muslims want to emigrate to the USA and to Britain, where they are -- unless they are confused with terrorists -- left to go about their religious and economic and political and family business without hindrance.

Try that in Iran, Syria, Saudi, Algeria ... you name it,.

Answer 10

As bad as it sounds, I am going with the first answer you were given: yes, we know; no, we don't give a damn. Islam has been at war with the west since 1973, and frankly we are tired of the bullshit. We have through a number of administrations tried to work out solutions. Islam only want blood, and the scream that is is our fault. Screw it. We are tired of it. Islam/Arabs/Muslims want blood shed, I think it is time we give it to them. Damn, I am sounding militant this morning. Well, ya see, we really don't give a damn anymore, and I am a moderate.