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Why do they hate us?
Brain Terminal ^ | May 23 2006 | Evan Coyne Maloney

Posted on 05/24/2006 9:00:20 AM PDT by rightgrafix

When confronted with acts of stunning atrocity, such as the attacks of September 11th, the Madrid train bombings, the two attacks in Bali, or the synchronized bombings in the London underground, many navel-gazing Westerners are prompted to ask, "Why do they hate us?"

Although there's something off-putting about the implicit blame-the-victim mentality in a question like that, it nonetheless is a legitimate question to ask.

Some people ask that question rhetorically: to them, the answer to "Why do they hate us?" always leads one place: it's our fault. To these people, any horrific act anywhere in the world is a game of Six Degrees of Separation that traces back to something--anything--done by the United States.

Still, despite the fact that such a question seems most often posed by people who already have their minds made up about the answer, why not spend some time thinking about it?

First, let's define "they." For the purposes of this article, "they" refers to Jihadists: a radical subset of Muslims who believe it is their duty to kill anyone who refuses to abide by their religious law. Coincidentally, "they" are responsible for a disproportionate share of the terrorist attacks around the world, as un-politically-correct as this might be to recognize.

Now that we know who "they" are, who's "us"? Even though the "us" that "they" hate pretty much amounts to all of Western society, I will take "us" to mean the United States, since in the eyes of many in the non-Western world, the U.S. symbolizes Western society. But as the ongoing terrorist attacks worldwide prove, people are grossly misinformed if they believe the United States is the only country the Jihadists wish to destroy.

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1 posted on 05/24/2006 9:00:22 AM PDT by rightgrafix
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To: rightgrafix

..they don't hate you, they just want you dead!!!



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2 posted on 05/24/2006 9:02:37 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF...8th TFW...Ubon Thailand...408thMMS..."69"...Night Line Delivery...AMMO!!)
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To: rightgrafix
I simply don't care. My forefathers didn't care why Hitler hated them, they wanted to shoot the bastard dead.

Similarly, I want all these goat shaggers to die horribly.

Regards, Ivan

3 posted on 05/24/2006 9:03:50 AM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: rightgrafix

They hate the Jews. They hate Westerners. The only r

And they hate each other.

If it wasn't for their commont hatred of us, they would be killing each other. The problem is with them.


4 posted on 05/24/2006 9:04:21 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: MadIvan

I don't care either. Good point regarding Hitler...seems that the older generation recognized evil and realized that evil doesn't need a logical reason for its actions...


5 posted on 05/24/2006 9:05:42 AM PDT by milford421
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To: rightgrafix

It's like asking a rabid dog if he has a problem.


6 posted on 05/24/2006 9:05:56 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Memo to GOP: Don't ask me for any more money until you secure our Southern border.)
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To: rightgrafix

Who cares. Time for cowboys and muslims.


7 posted on 05/24/2006 9:06:10 AM PDT by Spruce (Keep your mitts off my wallet)
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To: rightgrafix

Can someone explain to me why the liberals insist on doubling the penalty when a so called hate-crime is committed against a victim, yet in this case the same liberals want to totally absolve the hateful criminal - ie, their hate for us doesn't double their punishment but rather offsets their crime!!!!

Liberalism IS indeed a suicidal, mental disorder!!


8 posted on 05/24/2006 9:08:17 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: MadIvan

"I simply don't care"

You better should care.
We just can win if we can answer this question


9 posted on 05/24/2006 9:09:13 AM PDT by cologne_blood
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To: cologne_blood
No, we can win if we kill enough of them so that the remainder are too weak or frightened to continue fighting.

Regards, Ivan

10 posted on 05/24/2006 9:11:22 AM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: rightgrafix
Judging from the fact that generation after generation is being raised to hate, I do not expect the Jihadists to surrender their war against Western civilization. It's the self-loathing Westerners I'm worried about.

Good final paragraph. We should all be worried about the self-loathing Westerners. I expect in a few more years, people just won't want to think about a War on Terror any more. Like the post-Vietnam 70s all people will want to do is dance, dance, dance. The Democrats will have their "happy days are here again" until the next dramatic terrorist attack.

11 posted on 05/24/2006 9:11:30 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rightgrafix
All *I* need to know about "islam" is contained in a story from 2002.

It tells of an incident in which a fire broke out at a girl's school in Saudi Arabia and,when the girls tried to escape the fire,the "morals police" forced them to go back inside because they weren't wearing the required head covering.

Fifteen of these girls died.

12 posted on 05/24/2006 9:11:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: rightgrafix

It's not a question of why they hate us anymore, it's more like how long will we keep putting up with their threat to wipe out Western Civilization?


13 posted on 05/24/2006 9:13:26 AM PDT by poobear (The most critical job that Americans will not do (just illegals): Vote for Democrats!)
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To: rightgrafix
Don't we know why they hate us?

Because we're not them.

This is actually a bizarre question, focusing on the elements in our makeup that slime find objectionable. Can you imagine a woman who's abused spending all her time wondering why her husband beats her, what it is about HER that MAKES him attack her?

I can--women who need psychiatric help think that kind of thing, while their scum husbands need to be jailed.

That's the way I think about this question. The fact that we spend so time wondering about it is a sign of a mental deficiency in many of our people. It speaks to a lack of belief in what it is to be American, and doubts about the value of our nation.

I just don't have time for such silliness. It is a dangerous mental disorder, this obsessing over this pointless question.

14 posted on 05/24/2006 9:14:34 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (An immigration-thread-free FReeper as of...now!)
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To: MadIvan
No, we can win if we kill enough of them so that the remainder are too weak or frightened to continue fighting.

I don't believe it's possible for that to be more clearly stated.

15 posted on 05/24/2006 9:14:50 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (© 2006, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: rightgrafix

Just rec'd this website via email this a.m. Take a look at our troops. Guaranteed to make you 100% all American proud. Will give you warm fuzzies.

http://objflicks.com/GladiatorAmericanStyle.htm


16 posted on 05/24/2006 9:15:24 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: rightgrafix

Don't worry about why they hate you; just figure out how get them on to the open field of battle so you can kill 'em in job lots without too much collateral damage.
And don't take prisoners - they'll just be "insurgents" later.

The Western motto should be "If you want to be a martyr, we want to martyr you..."


17 posted on 05/24/2006 9:17:47 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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To: lilylangtree

ABsolutely wonderful

I just watched it all the way through.

It brought tears to my eyes.

I'm an old Vietnam war vet.


18 posted on 05/24/2006 9:20:55 AM PDT by Sundog (cheers.)
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To: rightgrafix

In a word: jealousy. Look at their stinking countries and look at us. With all our faults and problems, we are still the greatest country in the world and therefore must be hated.


19 posted on 05/24/2006 9:21:07 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: MadIvan
No, we can win if we kill enough of them so that the remainder are too weak or frightened to continue fighting.

I'm with you. I already know why they hate us and knowing doesn't really make any difference to me, other than allowing me to pause for a moment and say politely, "Oh, okay," before I return to calmly painting my Nuke Mecca sign.

20 posted on 05/24/2006 9:23:47 AM PDT by wizardoz
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To: rightgrafix

Why bother asking anyone this question? We have to kill these mokes before the do it to us. Simple as that. You can't reason with a mad dog. You can try and run from him(which won't work), or shoot him. Period.


21 posted on 05/24/2006 9:30:18 AM PDT by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: rightgrafix
Islam teaches & preaches Hate & Intolerance.

Muslims see America as a Christian nation that needs to be overthrown and converted.

22 posted on 05/24/2006 9:32:38 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: MadIvan
"No, we can win if we kill enough of them so that the remainder are too weak or frightened to continue fighting." Yup, thats how they did it for the Crusades.
23 posted on 05/24/2006 9:34:05 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (Not available)
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To: rightgrafix
Why do they hate us?

Because they suck.

25 posted on 05/24/2006 9:35:11 AM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: rightgrafix
"subset of Muslims"

The PC road sign on the highway to death.


26 posted on 05/24/2006 9:38:14 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Mr. Brightside

they.hate.the.arrogance.of.having.employment.education.freedoms.running.water.flushtoilets.and.a.functioning.socio.economic.system......and.charmin.


27 posted on 05/24/2006 9:39:12 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: Mr. Brightside

The Arab code ends with Brother against Brother. The greatest hero of the First Testament for Islam was Cain.


28 posted on 05/24/2006 9:39:57 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: rightgrafix

By the headline I thought this was about the US Senate.


29 posted on 05/24/2006 9:40:15 AM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: Phlap

I think you'e got it.

I think it's either an Arab or Moslem saying: "I against my brother. I and my brother against my cousin. I, my brother and my cousin against my neighbor.."

So, that's why they hate us.


30 posted on 05/24/2006 9:45:35 AM PDT by From many - one.
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To: cologne_blood
Stop your stupidity immediately.

It worked on the Nazis, Japanese, and Italians in World War II.

It worked on the Imperial Germans, Austrians and Turks in World War I.

It worked on the Confederates in the Civil War.

There is no point in trying to deal with people whose peace terms are convert, live in servitude or die. The only possible reply is to kill them and to show no signs of weakness in doing so. Even the most primitive and barbaric of cultures understand pain and death. This is why the Muslims are not provoking China, in spite of the way China persecutes its Muslim minority - they know the reply is going to be pain and death. In our case, they are relying on our humanity, decency, and the lily-livered liberal weakness of people like you, to cause us to falter.

Ivan

31 posted on 05/24/2006 9:46:46 AM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: rightgrafix

Because we stand for everything they don't. Reason, freedom, and liberty. This may be a very simple statement, but I think it's really that simple. We (Western civilization) are in the way of them setting up the next Muslim empire.


32 posted on 05/24/2006 9:56:52 AM PDT by Mazda3Fan
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To: lilylangtree

I thought that the looks on the faces of the civilians was interesting. They don't look like they're unhappy our guys are there!


33 posted on 05/24/2006 10:00:33 AM PDT by susannah59
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To: rightgrafix

They need to be thinking about why we hate them.


35 posted on 05/24/2006 10:53:48 AM PDT by chesley (Republicans don't deserve to win, but America does not deserve the Dhimmicrats.)
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To: rightgrafix

Because of the products and message Hollywood sends to to rest of the world.


36 posted on 05/24/2006 10:56:42 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero » with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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To: Darkwolf377
Because we're not them.

Pretty much. People scoffed when President Bush said, "they hate our freedoms" but he nailed it.

I cheerfully walk out of the house every morning, drive my self to work, spend the day interacting with men who are not related to me, go shopping without a escort and never cover my head unless it is very cold or a have a bad hair day.

They can't stand it. The freedom that I have to do that drives them NUTS.

They must control everything and everybody down to the smallest detail to be happy.

The goobers who babble about how they just hate our "immoral ways" overlook that to them everything that they do not approve of is immoral. Have six kids out of wedlock or not shave your under arm hair. Both immoral in their eyes and both deserving punishment.

Does understanding this help in any way? Unless you count knowing that there can be no way to work out a reasonable compromise with them, not really.

37 posted on 05/24/2006 11:04:23 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Every lady in this land hath 20 nails on each hand five and twenty on hand and feet)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

It's like asking a rabid dog if he has a problem.

That same crowd will claim that it's our fault that the dog became rabid and that we deserve the mauling and bites due to our lack of care for the poor dog. For this lack of care by the dog ignoring world, all should die from rabid dog bites. You can be saved only if you give 20% of your income to the SPCA


38 posted on 05/24/2006 11:32:23 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: aquila48
Can someone explain to me why the liberals insist on doubling the penalty when a so called hate-crime is committed against a victim,

EASY:

Hate crime legislation accepts the concept that punishing thought is normal and logical. This accommodates the fascism movements that inevitably follow.
39 posted on 05/24/2006 11:36:46 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: lilylangtree

Wonderful! Just wonderful! Thanks for posting this!


40 posted on 05/24/2006 12:26:13 PM PDT by Eighth Square
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To: Mr. Brightside
Excellent observation. Muslim Arabs can only be united when they have a common outside hatred they can focus on. Left to themselves, they kill, maim, and destroy each other with abandon. That is why their desire to impose a worldwide khalifa is so utterly laughable. Were they ever to impose such a regime (not terribly likely), they would be at each other's throats within a week. A worldwide khalifa would bring the dysfunction and backwardness of the Muslim ME to the entire planet.
You've got to read The Haj by Leon Uris. It will really confirm your suspicions about the Arab world.
41 posted on 05/25/2006 10:46:03 AM PDT by attiladhun2 (evolution has both deified and degraded humanity)
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