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By: Assous Mohamed

"Children are dying, but no one makes a move. Houses are demolished, but no one makes a move. Holy places are desecrated, but no one makes a move.... I am fed up with life in the world of mortals.Find me a hole near you. For a life of dignity is in those holes."

Arabic poem

Jacob.G.Hormberger said: After 9/11 many Americans had no idea why

there was so much anger and rage in the Middle East, especially against the United States .

But unfortunately Jacob.G.Hormberger didnt study and analyse all thereasons that created this hatred and resentment and therefore he didnt give readers the full truth about this thorny issue.

I try in this sample study, helping Hoberger to uncover the truth of thishatred as I was born in Arabic country and lived among the Arabs and

Muslims since my birth 1967.

The sense of Arab and Islamic peoples to America has undergone twostages,The first stage before the first war word 1945 when all Arab and Islamiccountries were under the authority of the French and the Britishcolonialism in particular, in these times , all oppressed peoples were proud about America and love it, especially in the era of Woodrow Wilson(1928-1924) the 28 th president of united states.

Both Wilson and United states were loved because of the fourteen points in

January 8, 1918 , the main point and principle was self-dermination.So America was the hope of these oppressed peoples to achieve independence.


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In this period United States were hope, light and candle in the time whereFrance and Britain were both colonial.

In short, the American Revolution 1776, successive U.S governments, U.S presidents have been the focus of admiration and love of the oppressed peoples, especially the Arab and Islamic peoples, because U.S used torepresent freedom and democracy.

United states were in Arab and Muslim peoples justice, science ,civilizationbut unfortunately all that is finished after 1945, and the nice and wonderfulimage was dead , here is the second stage ,stage of hatred.So why? What are the real reasons which caused death of the beautifulimage and led to the birth of this ugly image?

Since my childhood and I hear words Anti-American, in streets, cafes and schools I listened to the sentences that: America is against us, we are withSoviet Union and Soviet Union is with us.

It was really strange for me so I wanted to understand better, why U.S isagainst us, and why Soviet Union is with us? But far from cold war I haveunderstood when I was child that U.S is bad too bad.

After the Second World War Harry Truman (1884-1972) the 33 rd president of U.S had decided to support Israeli statehood.

H.Truman

Truman wrote in his memoirs, "The question of Palestine as a Jewishhomeland goes back to the solemn promise that had been made to them

[the Jews] by the British in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 - a promisewhich had stirred the hopes and the dreams of these oppressed people.This promise, I felt, should be kept, just as all promises made byresponsible, civilized governments should be kept."

Truman didnt think about Palestinians fate or feelings of Arabs and Muslims.

This event was indeed the beginning of hatred.

After several massacres committed by Jews against Palestinians since1948, U.S didnt intervene and didnt condemn, which led to the growing


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of hatred against U.S. the biggest and the worst massacre and carnagewas in sabra and shatila September ,16 th 1982 .

Massacre of Sabra and Shatila1982

.who died in this carnage was children, elders, and many isolated fromany gun. The leader of this massacre was Ariel Sharon. After this painfulevent U.S didnt say any thing, indeed U.S ever reproached Jewsgovernments about their illegal actions.

Palestinianchild killed by

Israel

Palestinians killed by Israel


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Here you are a sadly image about a Palestinian mother between her hands her little kid injured or killed we dont know exactly by Israeliarmy

Arabic and Muslim world have hated U.S because its positions and

policy. Arabs and Muslims worldwide believe that Israel control U.S policy , Hassan El-Najjar wrote in Al-JaZeerah.info ,March 5,2007 an articleabout How Israel Lobby Controls US Policies: The Arab Bank Case (Thisis a classical example of how the Israeli lobby controls US policies. In1967, Israel launched a war of aggression in which it occupied parts of Syria, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza.

The Israeli occupation government has adopted policies to evict Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza or to force them to surrender tothe slavery of its occupation.

The Israeli occupation government has labelled Palestinians who resisted its illegal occupation as "terrorists." Even charities providing aid to theneedy Palestinians have been labelled as "terrorist" too.

Supporters of Israel in the US government have adopted the same Israeliterminology in referring to the Palestinian individuals or groups who arevictims of the Israeli occupation.

The US Congress never condemned the Israeli government as a terrorist

entity for killing and injuring Palestinian civilians, destroying their homes,stealing their lands, and building illegal settlements in the occupied territories. At the same time, it passed many laws describing Palestinian


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groups as "terrorists." It even passed legislation to prevent the executivebranch from dealing with the pro-US Palestinian Authority.

The US Justice Department has been very active in closing down UScharities which used to help needy Palestinians. Almost all of them havebeen closed during the present Bush administration. At the same time, aid

to Israel continues despite Israeli daily violations of international law and daily violations of Palestinian human rights.

The case of suing the Arab Bank for facilitating aid from Arab charities toneedy Palestinians is a clear example of the tight Israeli control over theUS government to do the Israeli bidding. The objective is to help Israeliscontinue their subjugation of the Palestinian people as long as possible.

It is a policy that ultimately serves the continuation of the Israelioccupation of Palestine.

It punishes anyone who tries to help needy Palestinians, whose only fault isto desire to be free of Israeli bondage.) This is relation between U.S and

Israel in Arabs eyes.

In fact, in Arabs and Muslims eyes supporting Israel is supportingterrorism, read this article: Israel's terrorism against whoever speaks of

rights Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/23/2002

("The Israelis do not settle for the terrorism they practise against thePalestinians, but they also practise intellectual and moral terrorism against whoever speaks of rights," said Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher.

In statements Sunday prior to his departure to Valencia, Spain, to lead Egypt's delegation to the European-Mediterranean ministerial conference,due to kick off Monday, Maher said "Israel alleges it withdrew from certain

places but we find it back there the next day."

"Even if its withdraws, we find it bent on staying in the environs of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat's complex and the Church of Nativity,which is totally rejected," said Maher.

"We have seen how Israel lashed out at UN representative Terje-Roed Larsen when he visited the Jenin refugee camp and mentioned clearly what he had seen for himself, that the Israeli public prosecutor called for expelling him from Israel," added Maher.


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Maher expressed hope that a fact-finding commission formed by theSecurity Council would come to the region to express its opinion over thissituation created by Israel and its aggression on the Palestinian people.

On the possibility that Israel's membership of the Euro Mediterranean

Forum would be suspended, he said "Israel's presence-even if it issomething loathsome due to the crimes it perpetrated-offers a good chanceto expose its practices against humanity, legitimacy and law."

"Some Arab brothers viewed that it would be proper not to attend and werespect their decisions, but the majority viewed it was essential to goanywhere to defend our cause and to take the fig leaf off Israel'smanoeuvres and crimes," he said.

On whether Maher would meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Pereson the sidelines of the Valencia conference, Maher said "frankly, I don't want to meet him but if he asks to meet me, I'm ready for it.

However, he will not be pleased with what he is going to hear from me."

On reports that Israel was considering storming Arafat's headquarters and

expelling him from the occupied Palestinian territories, Maher expressed belief that the Israelis-despite their foolishness-would not embark on suchact which would lead to serious consequences.). After this travel between

Arabs news we can discover why U.S is hated.

In addition, U.S uses Security Council, International monetary fund and world trade organization as instruments to persecute people.

Execution of Saddam Hussein still until now the biggest question: WhyU.S has chosen November 30t h, 2006, date of Eid Aladha (Religious

festival for Muslims), Arabs peoples have named this day of execution(the black day).


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Al Jazeera correspondent Hoda Abd al-Hamid said Baghdad had started tocome back to life on Monday, but that traditional New Year's celebrationshad not gone ahead.

She said mourning tents had been put up in Tikrit and people weredemonstrating near the village where Saddam was buried in a family plot

next to his two sons.)

In New York, the Reverend Jesse Jackson said on Monday that theexecution would not make the US safer and would only increase theviolence in Iraq.

"Killing him intensifies the violence, reduces our moral authority in theworld," said Jackson, who has travelled to the Middle East on peacemissions.

"Today we are not more secure. We're less secure. We've missed a moment to appeal to those in Iraq to break the cycle of violence."

The deposed Iraqi president was hanged on Saturday, three years after being captured. He was buried on Sunday.

Jackson, who spoke after preaching at the Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, said Osama bin Laden, not Saddam, was behind the September 11,2001, attacks.

"Saddam Hussein didn't hit us. Bin Laden hit us," he said. "Iraq didn't hit us. The Taliban hit us."

Jackson said the US was complicit in the trial and execution of Saddam bythe Iraqis "because we held him in our custody, and the government in Iraqtoday is a government subsidised by the US".

In Morocco exactly in Casablanca January 8 th , 2007 there was a great march to condemn Saddam execution (Thousand people on Sunday took to the streets in Casablanca to condemnthe execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

Organized by the Democratic Confederation of Labor (CDT), thedemonstration denounced this "assassination" and decried Americanoccupation of Iraq and the situation decline in this country. In Algeria a woman 35 years had suicide just after hanging Saddam


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Hussein; her family said that the poor woman was shocked about the pictures which showed the tragedy. in the same time many posters about Saddam were offered by the newspaper Echo-chorouk.

Brandishing Saddam Hussein photos, the demonstrators condemned "American terrorism that disdains international law".

In India a 15-year-old girl from eastern India hanged herself in responseto the execution of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, police and familymembers said today. Read this extract from forum

http://www.yabiladi.com/forum/read-66-1591766.html

"She said they had hanged a patriot,'' the girl's father, Man MohanKarmakar, said from the town of Kharda.

"We didn't take her seriously when she told us that she wanted to feel the pain Saddam did during the execution.''

He said his daughter, called Moon Moon, and had become extremelydepressed after watching Saddam's execution on television.

"She kept watching the scene over and again and didn't take food onSaturday and Sunday to protest against the hanging,'' he said.

Police superintendent Pravin Kumar confirmed the suicide, saying thegirl had strung herself up from a ceiling fan and was found dead early onWednesday.

The communist-ruled state of West Bengal has condemned Saturday'sexecution of Saddam, with thousands of people taking to the streets.

In Tunisia: TUNIS (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrators have denounced Friday afternoon in Tunis, the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam

Hussein, calling it "unfair" the trial that led to the gallows during a rally at the initiative of the Tunisian General Union of Labor (TGUL)."By our soul, our blood, we sacrifice for you Saddam," chanted thedemonstrators whose meeting was supervised by a safety device.

Mohamed Ali meeting place, the headquarters of the union which wasdrawn up a giant portrait of the "martyr Saddam", less than 1,000 tradeunionists, members of associations and lawyers led by Ben Moussa

Btonnier Abdessattar resumed slogans hostile to Washington as well as inTehran.


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"You lived a hero, you died a hero", "no imperialist interests in Arab land","honor to the martyrs, glory to the resistance, shame the valets (Arabic),"

proclaimed banners around the building TGUL.

The President of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights

(LDHR), Mokhtar Trifi, calling it "killing" the execution of Saddam Hussein. However, the meeting was marked by an altercation between Mr.Trifi and Tunisian lawyer for Saddam Hussein, Ahmed Seddik Me, whichcriticized the LTDH "not having published any release since the arrest of the former Iraqi president.

Tunisia after hangingSaddam

In recent days, other pro-Saddam demonstrations have been held in Tunisat the invitation of the opposition, the Bar and the union of education. AP

This execution had led to this picture

child with Gun In fact this child needs a nicetoy.So Why?

In fact, I dont think that American people had read this news beforebecause of preoccupation with daily life. Jacob.G.Homberger said :( Alltheir lives, Americans had been taught that foreign policy was for federal


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experts and, thus, they had chosen not to concern themselves with what their federal officials were doing to people abroad. Innocently believingthat federal overseas personnel, including the CIA and the military, had been helping foreigners for decades; Americans had no reason to doubt theofficial U.S. pronouncement immediately after 9/11: We are innocent. Theterrorists hate us for our freedom and values. Thats why they have

attacked us.)So American people are not interested in U.S foreign policy, and they trust on their experts politicians.

Manifestation just after Saddams execution

These are not the only reasons which make Arabs and Muslims people,the sadly reason the support for the Arab regimes hated by their people.


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This is an article was written by Khalid Amayreh, October 2001 (The U.S.has been, and continues to be, the sponsors, the sponsors and the

justification for the misery of my people in the last sixty years.

The USA are the authors of 60 years of suffering, death, loss, occupation,oppression, deprivation of shelter and bullying.

The USA is the usurpers of the right of my people human rights,democracy, civil liberties, development and a dignified life.The U.S. accomplices and financiers of the occupation, segregation,repression, terror, and theft of land by the Israelis.

The USA are the protectors, defenders, the engine and guarantors of despotism, dictatorship, dynastic fiefdoms of, and autocracies and

theocracies, oligarchies, and monarchies brutal Muslim world.

The U.S. is the bad power that refuses to release my person from foreignoccupation of Nazi type who kills our children and steal our land.

The USA is the tyrant, the global dictatorship that deprives hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims of their right to freely elect their government and leaders because U.S fears of big business benefits of democracy in the

Muslim world.

The U.S. treat us, my people and me as the "children of a God of second class.

In fact, in the final analysis, the USA, I am only alternative:

Either accepts docilely enslavement and oppression ever, or I become an

Osama bin Laden. Honestly, there is no third way, and if any, show us.

I am not exaggerating at all. Everyone knows that politics and U.S.behaviour in the Muslim world encourage extremism and moderation is

fail. In fact, I dare say that the first leads inevitably to the second in a direct cause and effect.

So, please the U.S., do not make me an Osama bin Laden. I do not want to be. I hate to kill innocent people, because in our religion,


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to kill an innocent human being is tantamount to killing the entire humanrace.

I know that the "hatred" is not a good thing. I try really not to allow myhatred of the U.S. government and its murderous policy to move from itsstatic to its dynamic form.

However, others who may even hate the USA more than me will not be ableto keep as much cold-blooded, return their grievances, and remain "wise."

Static but hatred is ultimately a frozen anger, waiting the moment toexplode.

It has already exploded in the face of USA.

I know that hatred can be indiscriminate and deadly. But I also know that oppression, as the Quran clearly states, is worse than murder.

Therefore, I try; even I try to make my hatred of the USA also reasonable,as constructive, as humane as possible. And it is not because the U.S.should be treated humanely.

Extermination of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Lebanese and

Palestinians do not deserve any respect.

They are despicable mass murderers of the same species as Hitler.

My goal and my people shall be free, free from Israeli oppression and occupation commissioned and funded by the US.

I want to be freed from the Jewish occupation, apartheid and racism Jewish

Jew.

I want to be freed from a life of roadblocks, checkpoints, detention camps,closed military zones, of "targeted assassinations" of confiscated land,demolition of houses and, yes, daily massacres.

I also want to be free from hatred, even hatred toward the USA. But I knowtoo well that I can not be relieved of the effect as I would not be freed from

the cause and the cause is the greed, rapacity and hegemony U.S... All we want is to be left in peace and live a normal life by exercising our


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rights and freedoms given by God. Like other human beings. Is it too much to ask?

Please USA; do not make me an Osama Ben Laden.)

http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=1093&lg=fr

Israelians ask this question: why Arabs and Muslims hate U.S and Israeltoo.

To understand why an article in the "Das Bild 'in German and translated by Claude Lesselbaum.

(They burn the flag of Israel and the United States. They cry: "Death to Jews! USA Death to the devil.The Israeli air raids against Hamas in Gaza push extremist Muslims in thestreets, around the globe. Tens of thousands of them violently manifested inthe Arab and Islamic capitals.

Where does this hatred of Jews and their state?

One reason is that Israel is quite different from all its neighbours - it is ademocracy, only in the region. This is an open country in the world, happy

living, modern, successful, women have equal rights. This creates envy. Especially among those who have nothing.The journalist Michel Friedman: "It is indeed a war by proxy. Israel is the

Middle East forward position, the symbol of Western values hated by the Arabs and Islamists: Freedom, Democracy, the consideration for thedignity of man - but also the Instruction. The dominant class of Arab and

Islam would keep his youth in poverty and ignorance, because it is moreaccessible to violence.)

Article published on 30 October 2008 on the Internet by "Das Bild," inGerman and translated by Claude Lesselbaum

Here is an other article was written by a Saudi photographer Reem Al-Faisal on Arab news Thursday 26 May 2005 (17 Rabi` al-Thani 1426 (A

few weeks ago an American I met at a friends house asked a much repeated query, Why do you the Muslims hate the Americans? To which I answered in the same way as all the preceding instances in which this


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Many articles were published about that subject, and many opinions weremade on forums.

At a forum site ( http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f54/10-reasons-

americans-hate-muslims-414843/)they they fixed 10 points to make Americans hate Arabs and Muslims.

Originally posted by melancholy 10 reasons STUPID Americans hate the Muslims

1) the Koran is evil2) Muslims are hell bent on conquering the world

3) they want to impregnate good Christian women with little habits and akbar's4) they're brown, dress funny and speak a funny language5) politicians and Hollywood movies say they are bad people6) they kill civilians and that's bad. Only Christians and Jews are allowed to kill civilians.8) they're jealous of the US9) they hate freedom

10) it's a new cool fad to hate Muslims and America is the trend leader of the world

10 reasons SMART Americans hate the Muslims

1) they don't let the US control their oil2) they refuse to let the US interfere with their domestic policies

3) they dare to think they can act as sovereign people and have self determination4) they want freedom from Western control5) they mess with Israel, a strategic ally6) they're uppity enough to actually CHOOSE something for themselvesother than accept democracy like the US told them to7) the US would be so much richer and more powerful to have them under control

8) they don't buy American products9) having them as the enemy is a great way to control the American populace


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10) every empire needs an enemy to stay on top of its game, otherwise theempire decays quicker.

Why do Muslims hate the U.S. government? By Arif Maftuhin

17 January 2006

(Seattle - I was surprised recently when I was going to downtown Seattle. A friend of mine working there told me, "Here is the place we observe Friday prayers". The fact that he was a pious, white American Muslim was prettysurprising; but what made me more surprised was the place he showed me:it was not a mosque, but a church!

The church, attended by its congregation mainly on the weekends, providesone of its rooms for Muslims in downtown Seattle to observe Friday prayers. While the Muslim community does rent this room, the fact they canshare the church would be unimaginable in the Indonesian context.

There are many cases we can learn from. At Boston University, accordingto Ulil Abshar Abdalla, Muslims observed tarawih last month in a hallcalled Sacred Place where believers of any faith can observe their prayers

and services.

During Ramadhan, in the program called Fast-Thon, hundreds of non- Muslim Americans joined the Muslim Student Association in my universityto fast for one day. Like Muslims, they did not eat or drink from dawn todusk.

The U.S. is very tolerant of any religious life. Its constitution, particularly

the First Amendment, guarantees all citizens the right to have and expresstheir faith.

While some Muslims in other parts of the world want an Islamic state toguarantee the right to practice their religion, some American Muslims I have met said they do not need an Islamic state.

Why? America gives them most of what they need to be a pious Muslim

without it being an Islamic state. For sure, it is not a perfect country. However, has an Islamic state existed and given anything better than what America has?


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In the U.S., Muslims of Somalia, Cambodia, and Palestine have found asylum and help. They live a better life and are more secure in this non-

Islamic country.

Thus, why do Muslims hate America? Why is America and its interests the

target of Muslim hatred?

The answer is that, in fact, Muslims do not hate America, but rather theinterventionist policy of the U.S. government. The presence of U.S. troopsin the Muslim heartland, Saudi Arabia, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait,was the supposed reason behind the Sept. 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of

Afghanistan and Iraq are the main reason for the many suicide bombings inthe last three years.

It seems that both Muslims and the U.S. government do not pay attention towhere their relations intersect.

In relation to the Muslim world and the U.S., actually there are four entitiesinvolved: the American Government and the American people on the onehand; and the Muslim world and American Muslims on the other.

In the country named the United States of America, there is a government that does not necessarily represent Americans as a nation. In the Muslimworld, there are American Muslims, the citizens of the hated America.

Unfortunately, these four entities have been lazily simplified into two polarised entities: Muslims and the U.S., my side or your side, my interestsor your interests.

The neglected interconnectivity is complicated and costly to both sides.

The beautiful picture of Muslim and U.S. relations mentioned above hasbeen overshadowed by the negative aspects of those two worlds: the bad

foreign policy of the American government toward Islamic countries; and the bad reaction of radical Muslims.

The victims of neglected interconnectivity, we may expect, are always the

good parts of both entities: non-radical Muslims and anti-Bush Americans.The victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack were innocent Americans, non-


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I groaned inwardly. Here, I thought, was a person as woefully misinformed about America as most Americans are about the Middle East.Painstakingly, in my rusty Arabic, I explained that although the United States is a democracy, we Americans do not choose our government'sallies, nor do we select its adversaries. We do not vote on the annual

foreign aid budget. There are no referenda on the ballot asking whether the

United States should send abundant aid to Israel, or whether the United States should pressure the UN Security Council into maintaining sanctionsagainst Iraq, or whether the Fifth Fleet should prowl the Persian Gulf to

protect our oil supply.

Americans do have the ability to vote out of office politicians who embracevarious foreign policies, but Americans rarely have accurate informationabout the effect of those policies, in the Middle East or elsewhere. If they

knew, I argued, they would speak up in opposition, because Americanshave a fundamental sense of fairness. I concurred that it was imperative todebunk Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims as wild-eyed, Koran-waving fanatics. These are pernicious ideas that stand in the way of fair

judgment.

Our conversation lasted for hours. When we reached a pause, the waiter invited me to dinner at his house. There I met his brother, a devout Muslim.

He too asked me why America hates Arabs and Muslims. I spent two morehours talking with him. When I left, he told me warmly how happy he was"to connect with an American on a human level." He and I shook hands likeold friends, as we agreed that both Americans and Arab Muslims should strive to puncture the myth that "we" are somehow essentially different

from "them."

A civilized human society cannot afford to think in those tribal terms. That type of thinking leads to despair, and thence to wholly unjustifiable

disasters such as Americans have just experienced. Most Americans whohave lived or travelled in the Arab world can relate similar experiences:

Arabs are entirely capable of differentiating between a people and theactions of its government, or the values of a people and the political agendaof a narrow minority of them. What confuses, and, yes, angers them is that we do not seem to return the favor.

Scant days after I returned from Suez to Cairo, President Clinton ordered

US fighter-bombers to attack Iraq, ostensibly because Hussein had expelled UN weapons inspectors from his country. The "surgical strikes" of Operation Desert Fox, like previous and subsequent campaigns, maimed


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and killed defenceless Iraqi civilians. Meanwhile, virtually every newsoutlet in Egypt ran pictures of grinning US seamen painting "Happy

Ramadan" on the missiles destined for Baghdad. Those pictures mocked thesuffering of Muslims, just as they mocked my attempts at playing culturalambassador.

To the Arab and Muslim world, Americans project an image of utter indifference to the Iraqi civilian casualties of sanctions and bombing -- people who were also "moms and dads, friends and neighbours," asPresident Bush said of the Americans we mourn today. During Desert Fox,there was no outrage at the callous black humour of the missile-painters, or the purposeful insult to Islam's holy month. Despite the obvious failure of bombing to achieve our stated objective (ridding Iraq of Hussein), and theharm done to innocents in the process, no mass anti-war movement spilled

into our streets to force a change in US policy. Hardly anyone hassuggested since that US officials should be held accountable for wilful actsof terror, though terror is surely what Iraqis must feel when bombs rain

from the sky.

Only days after Desert Fox, the Iraq story faded from the front pagesentirely, and the nation returned to its obsession with the Monica Lewinskyscandal. What could that waiter in Suez have been thinking of my carefuldistinctions then?

He does not have "links" to Osama bin Laden. He is not a prospectivesuicide bomber, nor would he defend their indefensible actions. Today I have no doubt that he feels intense sympathy for "us."

After watching unjust US policies continue for years without apology, after hearing of incidents of racist anti-Arab backlash following the execrablecrimes of Sept. 11, perhaps he also senses great tragedy in that the

hijackers spoke to Americans in a language the US government speaks alltoo well abroad.)

Source: Chris Toensing is the editor of Middle East Report, published bythe Middle East Research and Information Project, a Washington, DC-based think tank.

But do all Arabs and Muslims hate U.S?

Not all Muslims hate America


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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) , May 9, 2006 by James Sloan AllenChristian Science Monitor

(We have grown sadly used to hearing that the rest of the world, particularly the Islamic world, hates America. But here is some good news. It comes from hundreds of firsthand reports by participants in exchange

programs under the American Councils for International Education. Hereare samples from participants in some Islamic countries.

People from these countries who spend time in the United States under exchange programs not only prize the democratic culture they find here;more important, they typically go home bent on instilling the virtues of

America in their own nations -- like the teacher who exclaimed: "I wasback in Turkmenistan! Back in my home country! I made up my mind to dowhatever I could to make my country a better place to live" because"America inspired me and showed me what was possible."

Here are some similar examples of this good news from the predominantly Islamic region of the former Soviet Union, a crucial front in the war of ideas with autocracy and Islamic fundamentalism.

In Azerbaijan, a young woman declares, "My understanding of the meaningof life has totally changed" since she resided in the United States.

Surprisingly, she reports that this is partly because after experiencing America's "freedom of speech and belief and the respect for law and government . . . I started to read the Quran and came to my religion and understanding of it only in the U.S., not in my country." At the same time,touched by "how the American people care about and help" others, shevowed to "do my best to have an open and big heart and help those whoneed it."

Today she is a Muslim with democratic ideals who has thrown herself intothe work of securing rights for children.

In Kazakhstan, numerous teachers moved by American freedoms and socialequality say they are now endeavoring within their schools and amongadults outside to create an "open civil society" and make their homeland "areal democratic country" like America.

In Tatarstan (a Russian republic north of Kazakhstan), a woman struck by

America's ethnic tolerance strives to foster this at home by dissuading her countrymen from quarreling over the question: "Should Tatar peoplesupport their Muslim brothers or be united with their Russian neighbors?"


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To achieve this end, she is creating an ambitious community-widemulticultural educational program.

In Uzbekistan, a woman returned from legal studies in the United Statesand an internship at the United Nations to become an influential law

professor and establish innovative courses such as "Constitutional Law"

and "Women's Rights under Islam." Another young woman returned tolaunch a crusade "to improve the status of women," beginning with summer camps for girls to "increase their self- esteem by teaching them their basicrights." Yet another young woman concerned that "terrorism is threateningthe peace of the world," is using her American MBA training to instigate"democratic and economic reforms" that will "create a true democraticsociety and build a bridge of friendship between the USA and Uzbekistan."

In Tajikistan, a young man who says he had "become stronger, active, freeand more responsible" in the United States set out "to study everythingrelated to human rights" and to serve that cause. He then joined the

Republic Bureau of Human Rights and the Rule of Law, a human rights protection organization, where he organizes legal clinics for his fellowTajiks, reports on human rights violations in prisons, and helps a U.N.agency monitor Tajik laws for their compliance with the InternationalCovenant on Civil and Political Rights.

In Kyrgyzstan, a teacher says she discovered in America that "democracy isnot just a beautiful word that allows everyone to do whatever one likes" but instead means "freedom, but responsibility." She adopted these three wordsas her motto and now teaches "what a democratic state is," while planning"a new democratic school" devoted to spreading the principles of democracy throughout "the life of the community and the country." Another Kyrgyz person, who proclaims that "the U.S. won an ally in me" when hewas an exchange student here, is acting on his commitment by coordinating

a coalition of 55 "NGOs for Democratic Civil Society" and by preparing torun for parliament as a vigorous advocate of American democratic ideals.

Although these examples are few and anecdotal, they represent hundreds of people who bring us the good news from the war of ideas that America canindeed nurture democratic culture in Islamic and other developingcountries without firing a shot.

It can do this by inviting to our shores, educating, and otherwiseenlightening, ever more of the individuals (many of them women, as the


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Korea. You can visit internet websites to see millions of pictures and videos about these manifestations.

Many caricatures all over the world against U.S policy:

Iran against U.S

Korea against U.S

A South Korean Catholic nun walks by a cutout depicting a caricature of acow infected with mad-cow disease during a candlelight vigil protestingagainst U.S. beef imports in front of the Seoul City Hall.


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Egyptian caricature

Cheque people against Bush administration

French people against Bush


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French people against bush administration

World are plotting against U.S

Fight against US.


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At last American people should know the truth, Arabic and Muslims peoples doesnt hate you, instead every one of us like to live with youbecause of your generous .Arabic and Muslims people hate U.Sgovernment policy.

In fact Americans are peaceful people and people of peace, hate wars

wherever they are, hate injustice and tyranny. American people was the first people who was against bushadministration, we have many pictures about this subject.

All these pictures show courage and nobility of Americans:

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Caricature 1


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Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:

'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation; Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land

Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

why we hate you?

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