Pre-9/11, what bad things was the U.S. doing back then that make it is hated in the Muslim world?

Answer 1

It's not necessarily our foreign policy that has us hated. They hate us because of the very things we stand for, because we're different, because we do not follow their way of life or believe their religious views. It doesn't matter if you want to side with them or not, they want to kill you because you're free.

Answer 2

Thank you for having the courage to ask. This is not a popular question among those who refuse to connect the dots.

In the middle east, the Princes control the economy of the various countries. The Saudi families, for example, live in incredible wealth and splendor and the rest of the population in squalor. Only the wealthy can get a real education and therefore succeed --these wealthy drink alcohol, dress, act and think as they wish and pretty much are Moslem in word only --but the poor are taught in strict Islamic schools, live lives of repressed desperation and resent the wealth of their rulers. The US supports this, favoring the rich Arabians and not promoting anything like Democracy to flourish there.

The poor Arabs know this, and so they hate America for supporting what to them is understandably a very unjust situation. This is compounded by the Jihadist brainwashing of the Saudi Wahabiist schools. Kept in ignorance, many then are misdirected into Jihadist thought against foreigners, rather than applying that energy to change to unfair system in their own lands.

It's creepy America then goes and claims to want to install Democracy in a state like Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11, but openly supports the repression in Saudi Arabia, the country that sent us 19 hijackers on that hoirrible day.

I did not think so when he first put out his moivie, but I have come to believe Michael Moore had it exactly right.

Answer 3

The Muslim world didn't like the fact the United States, through the United Nations, would not allow any resolutions or sanctions to be passed against Israel for any reason, and they resented the fact we were providing money, guns and impliments of war to Israel with which to kill Muslim civilians.
They also didn't like the fact we established bases on Muslim territory, such as Saudi soil.

Answer 4

Per Bin Laden, 9/11 happened because we were in Saudi Arabia and he wanted us out. There really was no bad things being done to be hated by Muslims. They are just whacked out of their heads.

Answer 5

They were angry at us for Bosnia and Kosovo. In the 50s, the CIA installed the Shah of Iran which anger many Muslims. We recognize Israel, we're not Muslims, and we are better than them. But what we did doesn't matter, an act as horrible as they did deserves no forgiveness.

Answer 6

1953 overthrow of the democratically elected government of Iran to install the much hates former Shah.

1956 Aiding Israel and Britain against Egypt in the Suez.

1967 We did not support Israel in the 7 days war but refused to pressure them into honoring their own Knessett law to return the West Bank & Gaza.

1979 Aided Saddam in becoming prime minister of Iraq

Constant support of Israel against Islamic countries.

Answer 7

the Muslim world has always had a problem with the West. Our culture is better, our economy is better, our values are better. They don't like being the inferior society. They decided to strike America to make themselves feel better. I'll tell you this, there aren't millions all over the world fleeing to live in Saudi Arabia or Iran.

Answer 8

Well, it depends on your perspective as to if the actions were bad or not. For one thing, a major thing, our support of Israel against those who want to destroy it is something many in the region, not just fundamentalists, do not like about us. Another is what is seen as our interference in the affairs of Muslim nations. Fundamentalists think we have no right to be involved with the doings of Islamic states. Perhaps the clearest example of this was the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War. This was one of the main things that led Bin Laden to become a terrorist.

Answer 9

I lived in Saudi Arabia for 15 years and go to see the hatred LONG before 911. You see people in this blog go on about our "foreign policy" but I guarantee you not one of them even knows what our foreign policy is. Muslims hate America and westerners for many reasons which include:

1) Our support of Israel as the ONLY democracy in the middle east

2) Our support of a free society

3) Our support of seperation of church and state

4) Our support of equality of the sexes

5) Our economic versatility, growth and standing

6) Our lack of Islamic conversion

I could go on but everyone hates to read long answers.

Answer 10

Frankly, Ron, I don't give a damn how angry they were because we might have done something to upset them. That's no excuse to mass murder almost 3, 000 people who simply went to work that day. My first public school principal was a racist who went after me with such a vengeance that I still have nightmares about her, ten years later. That doesn't mean that I would kill her or wish the tragedy of 9/11 on her on any of her loved ones. Stop trying to justify terrorist acts.

Answer 11

Not that much actually. Granted, our foreign policy needed some revision. But aside from a tiny minority of extremists, we wern't "hated" like we are now. As evidenced by the fact that the overwhelming majority in the Muslim world supported the US when we went after the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

The reallly widesppread anti-Americanism didn't start until we started a war of aggression in Iraq.