Do the people that believe in that statement base that on recent history or do they base it on what their leader tells them?
Did the Islamists hate the Soviets for their freedoms when they were invading Afghanistan? Were they jealous for their central government and Marxist ideas?
They hate us for our foreign policy, the same way those people hated the Soviet foreign policy of imperialism...
thoughts?
2007-09-21 16:27:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
atheist, I would disagree
They dont give a damn what you are and what you arent, the same with the Jews...as long as you leave them alone they dont care what you believe in...
2007-09-21 16:39:47 · update #1
They hate us for our arrogance and our foreign policy towards them and our Capitalists trying to strongarm their way into their business.
2007-09-21 16:35:03 · answer #1 · answered by Kelly B 4 · 5⤊ 3⤋
No, that is just what the politicians what us to think. If someone would take a look at our forgein policy, one would find out that they hate for the acts we carry out there. Acts like installing the Shah in Iran. The Shah went on to kill thousands of innocents, and his police who carried out these acts was trained by our CIA. Basically we are setting up dictatorships in our name after overthrowing other country's governments, or going in and invading another country to set up a puppet government. It is because of things like this is why they hate us. It has nothing to do with our freedom, which we seem all to ready and willing to give up for so called "security".
2007-09-22 00:11:49 · answer #2 · answered by j 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The fact is, ending the threat of jihadist terrorist attacks against the US and its allies would be easy enough. You just need to do what Ron Paul has done, and pay attention to the actual motivations of the jihadist terrorists. Every serious analysis has concluded that their hatred of the US is motivated by actions that the US government has undertaken in their part of the world -- harmful interventions against Muslim populations. These include backing Israeli attacks on Palestinians, the destruction of the civilian infrastructure of Iraq and sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, support for various dictators in countries like Saudi Arabia, etc.
In order to eventually halt the jihadist terrorists from making these attacks, the US should stop committing these harmful interventions and thus remove the motivation for the jihadist terrorists (whose attacks on civilians they by no means justify) in the first place. Ending these harmful interventions would in any case be the right thing to do from a moral standpoint.
This should of course be combined with a strong law-enforcement effort to go after the jihadist terrorists who undertake such attacks.
Instead, though, the Bush administration has chosen to deny reality, misrepresent the terrorists' motivations, and to engage in even more of these harmful interventions (the invasion/occupation of Iraq, Ethiopia's proxy invasion/occupation of Somalia, etc.). This simply makes the problem worse, motivating more and more Muslims to join the jihadists, and landing the US in the Iraqi quagmire -- much to the delight of al-Qaida, as they state in their internal documents.
A caveat is in order, though. This strategy would take some time to eliminate the motivations of the jihadists -- that kind of hatred and fanaticism does not end in a day.
Another helpful thing to do would be to aid the good groups in the region, such as:
http://www.rawa.org/
http://www.ifcongress.com/english/index.htm
http://www.equalityiniraq.com/english.htm
http://www.awalls.org/
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/
2007-09-22 01:15:16 · answer #3 · answered by clore333 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"They hate us for our foreign policy, the same way those people hated the Soviet foreign policy of imperialism... "
I agree. Dubya (or the ones who control him) need(s) to invent something else.
2007-09-22 00:21:42 · answer #4 · answered by Mysterio 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Milestones" by Sayyad Qutb pretty much outlines why the fundies hate us.
It's the doctrinal guide for Al-Queda and all the other murders-in-waiting.
More than foreign policy, the West is seen as infidels, and the permissiveness of liberalism does little to dissuade this thinking.
(argle, can we be friends?)
2007-09-21 23:46:01 · answer #5 · answered by Kubla Con 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think they hate us simply because we do not believe in what they believe. I don't apologize for the wealth of this country or our freedoms. Some times people just hate because they are unhappy with their situation and it galvanizes their group if they can direct their unhappiness at an entity or thing, such as America.
2007-09-22 02:25:08 · answer #6 · answered by Ret. Sgt. 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Of course not - Al Fauxazeera and hate radio have blown this whole thing so far beyond recognition it's ridiculous.
What's really scary is there are Faux Droolers who believe it.
2007-09-21 23:35:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_%28intelligence%29
2007-09-21 23:54:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They need to start using their own brains more.
2007-09-21 23:34:55 · answer #9 · answered by RedWhite&Blue 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You're right.
2007-09-21 23:31:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋