Is the Liberal left responsible for the Arab world hating us?

Question

Some background - radical Muslims fear that their religion, way of life, and society is under threat of destruction. What are they afraid of? The "godless and morally corrupt" society represented in general by the West, and represented specifically by the United States. So, which political philosophy in the US has embraced godlessness and moral corruption? Some would say the Liberal left has. Without getting into specifics, generally they are in favor of activities viewed as morally corrupt such as abortion, pornography, sex with anyone and anything, homosexuality, and gay marriage. Liberals are also working to eliminate God and religion from society in general via the attacks on the Pledge of Allegiance, school prayer, Christmas displays and activities, etc.

It seems to me the Liberal left is responsible for the hate we are receiving. Yet they also are the ones who think we should just "understand and embrace" radical muslims and they will stop hating us.

What do *you* think?

Just as a matter of clarification...I grew up in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia to be exact, and my profession is that of nuclear antiterrorism for the US government. I have studied radical fundamental Islam for many years. I believe the answer to my question is "yes," and history within the next 5 to 10 years (possibly sooner) will prove me (and, George Bush) right.

Answer 1

"MUSLIMS SEE ‘LIBERALISM’ AS AMERICA’S DOWNFALL

Islamic terrorists hate America because it has been corrupted by “liberalism.”

To understand why terrorists call Americans the “infidels,” you have to understand the Islamist philosopher Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian born in 1906. His writings in the 1950s and ‘60s set the stage for today’s showdown between the Muslim fundamentalists and the “liberal societies” of the West.

Qutb (pronounced KUH-tahb) lived in America in the late 1940s while earning a Master’s degree at the Colorado State College of Education. He was shocked by America’s “sexual freedoms” and other liberal ideas about women and society.

Qutb’s saw the danger of America’s liberty society as the separation of the church and state. He was concerned that people with liberal ideas were mounting a massive campaign against Islam.

Qutb’s brother, Muhammad, was a distinguished Saudi professor of Islamic Studies. One of his students was Osama bin Laden, the leader of the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Sayyid Qutb’s influential book, “In the Shade of the Qur’an” (from the prophet Mohammad’s Koran), set forth the Koranic principles to turn Islam into a political movement to create a new society – one that would be the opposite of a “liberal society.”

Qutb outlined a revolutionary program that was going to relieve the psychological pressure of modern (liberal) life by putting humanity at ease with the natural world and with God.

Qutb opposed the United States because it was a liberal society that had lost its way .
Religion was the issue. For Qutb, religion was central to human behavior, and survival. America had separated the sacred from the secular, sowing the seeds of atheism and a disregard for human life.

Qutb became a martyr after Egyptian authorities hanged him in 1966 for his moral religious beliefs.

It doesn’t take a genius to see that American culture has deteriorated over the past 50 years, with drugs, pornography, crime, murder, political and corporate corruption at an all-time high.

Today, some three out of four babies are born out of wedlock in Urban America, with the national average reaching one out of three babies being born out of wedlock. And that doesn’t include millions of abortions.

Also, America’s divorce rate is now more than 50 percent.

What happened to fatherhood and marriage?

The nuclear family has been devastated by modern liberal ideas, as has our liberal educational system.

Now add to that growing list of failures, the liberal dumbing-down and downsizing of our once laudable standards and values, originally set forth by our freedom-loving founders more than 200 years ago.

What a frightening future for anyone with faith and values.

America is at a historic, global crossroads.

Will liberalism continue to demoralize and ultimately destroy our society?

Or will America return to the common sense principles of our Constitutional Republic based on the “rule of law?”

For more on the issues presented in this column, read Paul Berman’s book “Terror and Liberalism” (W.W. Norton)."

Answer 2

I think you overlook the Crusades. Long before there was even a United States, let alone a group of people defined usually by others as Liberal, there was a history of war and distrust by Islam and Christianity. It seem Christianity and Islam have been fighting for centuries over the same ground, and then you have the split between the Sunni and Shi'ite, that caused enmity for generations, and to this day leaves Muslim killing Muslim in the streets of Baghdad. I'm afraid, it has less to do with liberals and your evaluation of their policies, than history being replayed down through the ages. If you realize this then you will understand that no matter what they learn to say to convince you otherwise, about Israel, or our open alcohol drinking, or anything else, they have and will always have a group who wish to bring back the Ottoman Empire and the day of the flourishing history of Islam.

Answer 3

"And we arabs take a seat between sand, falafel and camels, proudly pointing on the Pyramids that were outfitted no longer through us." wow end there, do not take the credit! no longer all Arabs outfitted the Pyramids, it became only the Egyptians |Our tremendous instructor and chum whom we call Abu Ala, "the daddy of the Aristocracy" ( the stupid and blind West calls him Adolph Hitler and considers him the remarkable conflict offender in heritage) also hated Jews and left to us Muslims the order to kill them" under no circumstances in my life have i met an Arab who likes Hitler ever....ever..

Answer 4

I think you listen too much to Dinesh D'Souza AKA Distort D'Newza.

Funny that you show no quotes about Islamic Leaders saying they hate us for our supposed debauchery. And besides, you act if Conservatives NEVER have abortions, engage in homosexuality, or participate in acts of CORRUPTION.

Answer 5

No. It's those gibbering morons in the neo con movement who are resonsible for this hatred.

Answer 6

If you think the Arab world is more "moral", move there!

Answer 7

What do I think? I think you're ignorant if you believe such hog wash.