Your question overgeneralises, but there is a lot of anti-Western feeling in the Muslim world and there are a variety of reasons for it. One is that many are very devout and see the west and decadent and immoral - I have some sympathy for this view. Another is resentment over the fact that during the Golden Age of Islam the Arabs led the world in scientific and medical advancement, but they have since fallen far behind and would now be nowhere without the God-given oil, extracted using technology introduced by western countries like BP. Excluding oil, the whole Muslim Middle East exports less than Denmark. They resent the fact that a civilisation they regard as inferior should have surpassed them so decisively.
As well, traditionally the West is least popular in Arab countries which have nominally pro-Western governments (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, pre-revolutionary Iran). Pretty much all Muslim (or Moslem - both are correct, Jasper's Mom) governments repress their people, and they encourage anti-western feeling as a release valve. People can't criticise the government in, say, Egypt, so the press is allowed and encouraged to spew bile towards the West. However America and Britain in particular now have far fewer friends in the Muslim world than they did before 2003 because of Bush and Blair's bone-headed invasion of a Muslim country which posed no threat to the West and had had nothing to do with 9-11.
2006-09-22 21:20:46
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answered by Dunrobin 6
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Reverse the question. Why do westerners go trekking off to all points east and then try to impose western customs on the local people? Not very successful actually. I've yet to find a traditional fish 'n chip cafe or restaurants specialising in Yorkshire pudding east of Felixstowe.
I did once eat a passable bread pudding in Mumbai, but that's about it.
Problem is that it isn't just individuals who follow the suggestion 'Go, east, young man.' It's governments too, and they're old enough to know better. No wonder people from east of Vienna get upset!
2006-09-22 05:51:14
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answered by cymry3jones 7
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The middle of the Islamic dislike of the West is according to our historic previous, the Christian concepts integrated into our societies, democracy, the social progression won in the process the Age of Enlightenment and Islamism.. that isn't an ordinary difficulty which may well be bulletized, decreased to a bullet of information which regularly includes 25 words or much less. A assessment of the historic previous of the West and Christianity is efficient in highlighting the aspects in the back of the Islamic dislike of Western society. The Hebrew faith grew to become into the 1st to have ideals which might form the middle of Western society. The Jewish God grew to become into the God who liberates, his large deeds flowed from a will to grant freedom to his people. The Jews have been the 1st to make freedom the biggest to their destiny. Their God grew to become into loose and had no longer something in undemanding with different Gods or religions interior the time formerly Christianity. the classic Greeks began the form of what grow to be Western logical theory and a gadget of morality or ethics. The Greeks, and then the Romans, nurtured the form of democracy with the granting of rights to electorate and permitting the electorate some participation in governance. Many would say the boost of Christianity grew to become into the beginning up of Western theory. Christianity taught that God had created the international in particular for people to subdue and make the main. God grew to become into above nature, no longer interior it, so for Christians there grew to become into no lively impediment to exploiting nature as there grew to become into for different cultures. After the fall of the Roman Empire Christianity lapsed right into a backward medieval mode which grew to become into corrected by making use of the Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment.
2016-10-01 06:09:45
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answered by bradberry 3
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Because the West has created a functioning world civilisation where Islam failed. Similarly, the French hate America because at one time it looked as if this world civilisation would be speaking French, but it didn't turn out that way.
And the Moslems and French hate it even more BECAUSE they are also attracted to it!
2006-09-22 07:45:13
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answered by Anonymous
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Well, most do not hate the West. There are a few extremists, who most followers of Islam probably wish would go away. The Muslims in the West are happy there because of the freedom they have to live as they choose.
Historically, Islam has been incredibly tolerant of other faiths. Unfortunately, over the last century both Europe & the USA have consistently lied to & cheated the people of the Middle East in order to ensure the continous flow of oil which we all need to support our lifestyles. We prop up corrupt governments which ensure ordinary people in the Middle East have a rotten life...and frankly some of them have had enough of our hypocrisy.
2006-09-22 04:17:53
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answered by Well, said Alberto 6
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Some individuals in Islamic countries are still fascinated by Western culture. Not everyone is enthralled with the idea of Islamic theocracy.
2006-09-22 05:28:54
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answered by chrstnwrtr 7
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I think some Muslims find western politics towards their countries as cold and uncaring. I think many of them realize that there are many excellent educational and business opportunities is the west, though. That's why they want to go to the west.
2006-09-22 05:37:47
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answered by BethS 6
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I think that some Muslims are bitter and want to have it all. That fact is that the world is a very different place to what it was thousands of years ago and people and women especially have grown and developed in to something to which religion cannot control. We are too knowledgeable for the naivety of religion these days and the sooner these extremists realise it the better. Why cant they just progress and diversify their religion, after all religion only exists because of people.
2006-09-22 04:52:09
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answered by cutebeantree 2
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Muslims do not hate the westerns, they just don't like the government and the people who attack their homes and countries, and I'm not gonna lie, some people over react, but I'm a Muslim and I am really interested in answering your question, we like to live there cause we really like the countries, we do, my dream is to study in either America, UK, or Canada, so if you ask any Muslim about this question, an 11 year old child could answer it, just like me!
Aly Rabie,UAE.
2006-09-22 04:40:47
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answered by Michael S 2
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This is indeed a tough question.
I suppose they got out of the middle east to avoid the harsh life there. They want to establish their way of life in a place which already has prosperity established by others.
Its not too positive a mindset is it?
2006-09-22 04:23:10
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answered by Mark T 3
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