Posted on 09/05/2011 3:49:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Men stand near their trucks as they are questioned by U.S. soldiers with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment about the contents in their trucks on July 14, 2011 in Iskandariya, Babil Province, Iraq.
On the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, many Americans are wondering whether the risk of a terrorist attack against America has been reduced. The picture is mixed. With the death of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda is weaker. With revolutions in several Arab countries, frustrations with unpopular autocratic governments — a recruiting theme for terrorist groups - have been mitigated. But one important contributing factor has not improved - widespread anger at America in the Muslim world. While views have improved in Indonesia, throughout the Middle East and South Asia, hostility toward the United States persists unabated.
This does not mean that most Muslims support terrorist attacks on America. On the contrary, overwhelming majorities reject terrorism, including the 9/11 attacks, as morally wrong. Al Qaeda is quite unpopular.
However, anger at America does contribute to an environment in which it is easier for anti-American terrorist groups to recruit jihadists, to generate funding and to generally operate with little government interference - witness how bin Laden operated in Pakistan and the widespread anger there when the Pakistani military failed to prevent the United States from taking him out.
Trying to understand Muslims’ feelings toward America has been the focus of a five-year study I recently completed that included conducting focus groups and surveys throughout the Muslim world. I sat for many hours trying to understand as Muslims explained to me why they are so mad at America.
Muslims do not like about how America treats them. But there is one thing that is the most fundamental: their perception that America seeks to undermine Islam
(Excerpt) Read more at globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com ...
Stier-Rückstände ???
They are mad because they know if they tried the crap they pull in France and England here. They would be shot and left to rot in the street.
This is simply a lie. Every survey and poll out there shows strong support, in every Muslim country--and amidst Muslims in the West--for terrorist groups attacking Israel. This even among so-called "moderate" Muslims.
Yes, many don't support al Queda type terrorism against the USA...(as they know we'll hit them back, HARD?), but for some reason Muslim peoples have no problem with blowing up school-buses full of JEWISH children, and for some reason, their Western allies don't seem to take note of that...
Not with this Islamist sympathizer in the White House. The Bush administration DID thwart terrorist plots in the US and UK.
PASSENGERS and BY-STANDERS have thwarted terrorist plots in the Obama administration. Additionally the Obama administration has downplayed successful domestic attacks on his watch claiming they were just lone nut actions with no ties to international terrorist goals.
Wasted effort. Why did Hitler hate the Jews and what could they have done to make him more tolerable?
Blame the victim. That slut walk the press covered earlier this year was for nought, "America was asking for it (911)".
I’d wager that there are loads of Americans who are still angry with Arab Muslims.....what’cha think Mr. Steven KullIdiot? =.=
“America seeks to undermine Islam”
Well, yes I suppose it does IF you observe that Islamic nations are intolerant of other faiths, push towards theocractic rule, and our Constitution defends our basic human right to a freedom OF religion.
The Lockerbie bomber suffered a miraculous recover and has still not died of the terminal disease (or hero’s welcome) he got.
Muslims tend to view current events through the lens of a long-standing historical narrative. According to this narrative, going back to the Middle Ages Christian forces from the West have persistently sought to break the grip of Islam on its people. By holding fast, Muslims believe, they were able to flourish as a civilization, at times superseding the West in many dimensions.
Islam's grip on Europe was on CONQUERED people. Claiming divine right to be able to murder the men and subjugate the women and children is out of fashion with historians these days.
Islam did it and continues to do it. It's the death cult of a warlord.
Either he got it wrong by misunderstanding or got it wrong to lie to the readers.
The pat answer they give is "attacks on INNOCENTS are contrary to Islam". The belief is that the victims were not innocent.
Why is this the most important question?
Who cares what muslims think? The world does not revolve around muslims.
What Americans think about muslims is as important, if not more so. The difference being that America doesn't care what islam does, so long as the koranimals leave us the hell alone. They can rot immersed in their primitive barbarity.
Muslims already behave and control their national environment in whatever way they deem best for the safety and welfare of its citizens, without the handicap of laws which apply to outsiders no less than it applies to their own citizens.
The USA does not.
Until and unless the US adopts similar laws applying to foreigners, focusing on muslims in our own country, and making sure that as guests they understand that can never enjoy the same rights as citizens, why muslims hate us is irrelevant, so long as they limit their existence to their own country.
According to this American narrative - which Muslims perceive as arrogant and dismissive - human society naturally and inevitable evolves through the stages that the West has gone through. As in the Renaissance, religion is largely banished from the public sphere, thus allowing pluralism and diversity of beliefs in the private sphere while maintaining a secular public sphere. This leads naturally to the elevation of individual freedoms and the emergence of democratic principles that make the will of the people the basis of the authority of law rather than revealed religious principles. From this assumed American perspective, Muslim society is seen as simply behind the West in this evolutionary process.
I don't think America is AHEAD of some sort of "evolutionary" process because religious expression is repressed by secular humanist socialists who've infested our government, education, and entertainment establishment. I do see that Islamic nations are far behind the curve of development. They still hold onto royal families. And I don't accept that terrorism exists because of povery, Bin Laden was a billionaire as was Arafat.
It isn't the will of the people. The women cannot vote and muslims are told not to question the rules of Islam. Mohammed is considered the perfect man so if he married a pre-teen girl and bedded her, he must've had great wisdom in doing so.
I doubt that you would've seen "basketball star" like celebrity t-shirts honoring Osama if the muslim street really felt that much against Bin Laden's attacks.
It would be too hazardous for someone to walk in public wearing such an outrageous sign of support of Bin Laden. Wouldn't it?
Russia has no vulnerable irrational legal system that allows a ruthless culture like islam to use that system to defeat itself.
The Chechyan muslims have attempted to duplicate the American invasion, but ruthless response by Russia has neutralized the attempt.
My question is when must we begin serious resistance here in the USA?
Huh? The Taliban was a more or less popular autocratic government, and they were the ones who protected and trained the 9/11 attackers. I'm not sure that replacing unpopular autocratic thugs with popular autocratic terrorist thugs is going to "mitigate" the threat. Liberals don't understand, but the way you mitigate the threat of mass murder is by removing mass murderers from the face of the earth. On that note, I would like to thank the US Navy SEALs, Delta, the 101st and 82nd Airborne (especially their snipers), the United States Marines, and the rest of our military, who have managed to continue doing the job and keeping us safer despite the incompetence and malice of our community-organizer-in-chief.
Actually, the Term Messiah, or more correctly, Moshiach is NOT Hebrew for “Christ”. There is no word for “Christ” in Hebrew, simply because Jews do not believe in a “Christ”.
In Hebrew, the term specifically means “anointed” one, as in a king. All of the kings of Israel were all anointed with oil. The term Moshiach, refers to a king of Israel.
In Jewish scripture, the Moshiah is NOT a deity, nor is he or her ( it could also be a female- as Queen Esther and her Uncle Mordechi were both Moshiahs of their day), a manifestation of HaShem in flesh. Such a concept is considered pagan idolatry, the worst of abominations in HaShem’s eyes.
The Moshiah who is to fulfill the prophecies, and they are only coming to pass in this current time, is a Rabbi and king. However, it must be noted that there is a Tzadik in every generation that could be a Moshiach.
Moshiach ben Dovid, a descendant of King David, of the tribe of Judah, is the one who will come to power at the End of Days. He will defeat the armies of Gog U Mogog and will save the Jewish people and Israel. He will rebuild the Temple, gather the Jews from exile to Israel and rule by Torah. He will, as a Rabbi, lead the Jewish people and the righteous gentiles into the Redemption.
As for why the world hates Jews is simply because of jealousy. The Jewish people refuse to give up who they are to become like the rest of the world, and that greatly angers them. Ishmael was extremely jealous of Israel, and hated him. Essav hated Israel. Both have harmed and continue to harm Am Israel, which is why HaShem will bring his wrath against them. And if you follow the signs of the ancient Hebrew Niviim, it has already started to happen.
It would have been be wiser of the nations to remember HaShem’s promise to Avraham in Bereshit, (Genesis) Chapter 12:1-3:
The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you”
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