Why do they hate us?

Why do they hate us? What would possess a group of terrorists to attack the US with such horrid results as those of September 11th? The answer is that they have been taught very well to hate the US, from the time they were old enough to feel hatred. The roots of the hate America theme go back to Karl Marx. The capitalist system was supposed to be the root of all evil, and, of course, the US was the prime example of the capitalist system--the most successful economic, as well as the most successful political system in the world--if you consider freedom and love of country as measures of success. Never mind, said the haters, the US is inherently aggressive and racist. Actually, we don’t claim perfection. We did ally ourselves with a few repressive regimes in the Cold War as a short term expedient. Did the Soviet Union act better, or just promise more? Then, after World War II, the US recognized Israel. This act energized Islam, which quickly adopted the Soviet view of the world to include its hate America propaganda. Young Muslims were taught from texts giving the Soviet view because Israel and the US were now the enemy. By 1961, the USSR had decided that nuclear warfare was too risky, so it decided on a new course of action called “wars of liberation.” Along with the propaganda campaign came the arming of dissidents who had now been schooled in America hate. Their propaganda blamed the US for worldwide poverty and oppression, based on colonialism (the US abandoned it early on), or imperialism. These “liberation” forces never acknowledged that the USSR couldn’t overcome poverty, had a caste system based on Communist Party membership, and was one of history’s most oppressive and murderous societies. When the USSR invaded Afghanistan in an imperialist drive to eventually acquire ports on the Indian Ocean, the US rushed to arm the Afghans and organize outside volunteers. Thus, we have been accused of “creating” Bin Laden, wherein the Soviet invasion--the real cause--gets no credit. Actually, the CIA was merely the paymaster for the rebels, the force was recruited and trained by the Pakistanis, so the CIA should get no credit or blame for Bin Laden. And never mind that thousands of Islamic volunteers returned to poppy farming and goat herding after the war, shirking terrorism. Yet, the hate campaign blames the US for Bin Laden’s fanatic betrayal of Islam. The USSR fell but the Marxist themes are still around. We are blamed for economic and political oppression in the Third World; rather than the tyrants, dictators and “presidents-for-life” that failed to build democratic institutions in those countries. In Communist China we are simply known in every school yard as the “main enemy.” On US campi today, anti-US Marxist orthodoxy is masked as “muticulturalism.” Adam Meyerson of the Heritage Foundation, says that Americans are the most generous people on earth, as evidenced by our giving $200 billion to charity each year. As an example, the New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg has reported that the US gave Afghanistan’s Taliban regime $43 million in aid for farmers, who grow poppy’s for opium, to switch to other production. Our Afghan aid through the UN is $290 million. Much of this aid is in wheat, in bags clearly marked from the USA. We have given $900 million in aid to the Palestine Liberation Organization since the beginning of the Oslo accords. They thank us by sponsoring terrorism in Israel. Despite harboring the terrorist Islamic Jihad, Egypt receives $2 billion of US taxpayer funds annually. Where is the gratitude on their streets? On ours? When will they stop hating us? Or should we just settle for being respected? commiefighter.

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They hate us because we were founded a Christian society, built upon the principles and more's given us by God.

By outstripping every other nation on the planet in prosperty, health, wealth, power and nearly any other measure by which a society might be determined successsful, we have, in their eyes, answered an unanswerable question: "Whose God is the True God."

Truly, our nation has been blessed in the past when we held to God's Covenant as laid forth in the Bible. It is an affront to Islam that could overthrow it without any direct conflict.

It is our freedoms, our liberty, our gurantees, and the limited government that is our birthright that has brought this upon us. Cleave unto God and we shall be given the power to rid ourselves of this menace.

They also hate the USA for what it stands for, things like freedom, liberty and so on. Also they are told that muslims are in every way superior to other religions and cultures. But when they look at what they have achieved, or how poor they are, things look the other way around. They feel they must destroy all the others, in order to gain the ultimate ruling of islam. Thats what they are told by the quran and all the imams.

They learn that killing and dying in the name of islam will earn them a good status in the afterlife.

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