Posted on 1/14/2003, 8:14:19 AM by JohnHuang2
Why is America hated in the Arab world?
According to leftists and to Arab and Islamic spokesmen, the reasons are: American support for non-democratic regimes in the Arab world – such as in Egypt and Saudi Arabia – and because America supports Israel.
Before positing what I believe to be the reasons, let's answer these two arguments.
The argument that America is hated by Arabs because it supports non-democratic regimes in the Arab world would be regarded as hilarious were it not believed by so many gullible people in the West.
The argument presupposes that what the Arabs (and Muslims elsewhere) who hate America want are open and free societies. But there is not a shred of evidence to support this. Is there any movement for pluralism, openness and democracy among those who hate America? Of course not. The Arab governments most opposed to America and which America therefore least influences – Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Libya – have less freedom than the corrupt Arab regimes that America does support. As corrupt and repressive as the Egyptian government is, Egypt is free compared to the aforementioned countries.
And if the United States ceased to pour billions of dollars a year into Egypt and the Mubarak dictatorship then fell, what would supplant it? Democracy? Openness? Pluralism? Freedom of speech?
We all know the answer. In every Arab country, a corrupt regime supported by America would be supplanted by a Taliban-type Islamic/fascist regime.
So let's call this argument what it is – a lie. Overwhelmingly, the Arabs who hate us don't want a free and open society; they want an Islamic totalitarian one. American influence in the Arab world prevents our haters there from imposing their vicious expression of Islam, not from establishing Jeffersonian democracy.
As for the second argument, yes, our support for Israel's security further inflames the hatred of those Arabs (and Muslims elsewhere) who hate us. But why do they hate Israel? Why are they so obsessed with a tiny state in a part of the Arab and Islamic world that they utterly ignored until Jews made a civilization there?
Because America's and Israel's haters are ethnic and religious haters on a magnitude not seen since the Nazis. They loathe everything Israel (and its American supporter) represents – freedom, democracy, openness, individual autonomy, freedom of religion, pluralism, women's equality and sexual freedom. They want Israel dead. Gone. Exterminated. They say so publicly, and they say so in polls. Yet, the educated fools and the Israel- and America-haters of the West ignore all this and blame Israel for trying to exist and America for enabling it to do so.
If America abandoned Israel, our Arab and Muslim haters would rejoice, but they would surely not stop hating us. Not one of them. They would only conclude that their terror worked, and that America will give in when the threats are great enough. One proof? Most Muslims living in Europe, which has abandoned Israel, continue to loathe Europe. Europe's abandonment of Israel has only convinced them – for good reason – that Europe has lost its moral fiber and is ripe for an Islamic takeover.
Arab and other Muslims who hate America do so:
The greatest problem confronting America is not that people who loathe freedom loathe us. Indeed, it is to America's enduring credit that it is hated by Islamists. Our great problem is that so many in our country do not understand that those who loathe liberty loathe America. For this reason, the battle for America's future is at home more than it is in Iraq or Afghanistan or in al-Qaida's caves.
We talk a great deal about winning Arabs' and Muslims' minds and hearts. Yet, we have yet to win all Americans' minds and hearts. For confirmation, just visit your local university.
If you listen to enough Islamic rants, the word that leaps out at you is "humiliation." America has supposedly "humiliated" Islam and Arabs, and thus must be brought low.
In truth, we've done nothing to Islam or the nations in which it predominates, aside from buying oil from them and shoveling foreign aid at them. These scum are "humiliated" by the very existence of a multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-ethnic society which promotes freedom, welcomes strangers, and practices tolerance to the extent ours does. They know they could never do it.
One of the giveaways of the savage mentality is a weakness for magical and superstitious thinking. It's plainly magical thinking to believe that, if enough people wish hard enough (and if all the dissenters are killed), then we can bring about whatever outcome we like. Compare this delusion to Islam.
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With what I have learned about Muslims post-9/11, it seems to me that being disliked by Muslims is a badge of honor. And yes, I know that's intolerant, insensitive, and politically incorrect.Link
I'm glad to see someone with access to a big web server with lots of traffic, saying the same thing. Now if only we could get the big city dailies and the lamestream electronic media to recognize this and proclaim it.
The left wing socialists in the U.S. are chipping away at the very heart of our roots, opening the door for the enemy. They are the enemy within and if they win, we lose.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12
The bottom line is that our successful civilization stands as a rebuke and an embarassment to their failed one. The educated people in the Arab world know that they used to be a major civilization, and this makes the present situation all the more galling.
Fullheartedly agree. Leftists are not only spiritual "enemy within" the free world, they're real fifth columnists helping the Muhammedan invaders by any means they have in their disposal. The ideologies of both are collectivist, atheistic, human hating garbadge.
"We talk a great deal about winning Arabs' and Muslims' minds and hearts. Yet, we have yet to win all Americans' minds and hearts. For confirmation, just visit your local university."
I'm not very familiar with this author, but this is great stuff.
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