I am just browsing, and I can't help but notice, why do so many people hate Israel?  Why do so many people sympathize with anti-American terrorists (Hamas)?  I am assuming most of us live in the U.S., how come you are defending people that hate you and want to murder you?\nIf you can explain this phenomenon, you will get best answer.
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You have to understand, friend, that people are ignorant. An no, not just Americans either. We as humans just have simple and one-tracked minds. Some more seriously than others.\nWhen it comes to the Israel thing, I have a good friend from Egypt, but she looks African America (Black). Mind you, she's beautiful. When people see her, they smile, guys buy her drinks, really hang on her tit like she's so fine. Then when she says that she's Muslim, cats get nervous. I understand it, because I'm Christian. And listening to most American Christians, post-911 mind you, they are really delicate when it comes to Middle Easterners, believing they had hands in US terrorist attacks. But remember, turning the other cheek and ignoring stupid people is a much more powerful jester than to reply with anything else.
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hi Tina.i am muslim and i want to thank you for being understanding person about Islam....muslim people like christians and jews..come from diffrent countries and diffrent coloer,culture,education....there are good and ofcourse there are bad.....we are humman like you,\nbut if you read the history of the Midell East ...and you see the current events now in it...may you will understand why we feel so angry and we are under attck...from the Westren Woarld...espcially USA the leader....so it will always USA to blame....of course that not right or fair...but what happen in the Middel East made a big mountains of hate and misunderstanding...
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as a muslim , i tell u that we donot hate america but we hate the american outdoor policy, invasions, setting up wars every where , supporting israeli war machine which kills   kids and unarmed people(see what is going to happen a few days later) , plus america support and protect the non_democratic regimes in arab and muslim countries(most of them) agianst their people with arms and international cover and at last i tell u that no-one knows everything    \nso try to look to the world +ve look and they will look the same to u.............\n                                                                  your brother in islam
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As with all things, some Americans support it totally, some oppose it totally, a bunch are somewhere in between, and some have no knowledge or opinion about it.\n\nThere are obvious logical problems with an "innocent-until-proven-guitly" nation running a Guantanamo.  The article probably does not pick the best example to illustrate the problem, though, since the particular prisoner did sound like a nut.\n\nYour narrow definition of "defense" probably does not make a lot of sense in today's world; it sounds like form over substance.\n\nI don't think you should feel pity for American civilians.  Like people in most countries (but maybe more so), most do not spend a large amount of their lives and time studying and thinking about politics.    \n\nIronically, so many people still see the USA as a "dream country" that there is a big immigration and border control controversy lately.\n\nI don't think Muslims are a "different breed" of people.  Most Muslims are probably a lot like most Christians and Jews.  Extremist Muslims are probably somewhat like extremist Christians and extremist Jews.  The groups could trade places, and I think little would change.  All the groups are just people who get angry about things, and a segment within each group expresses anger in violence.
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I don't have to open them to remind me once again why I do not support Israel.I do not support Israel's policy when it comes to Palestinians and the surrounding countries...Israel is killing hundreds of people saying is just "defending itself"...From who?From children who throw rocks at the Israeli tanks?\nIn the last 4 months in Gaza more than 220 Palestinians have been killed(most of them civilians ;militants who were not involved in any "terrorists" act),while only 2 Israeli soldiers have been killed,one from "friendly" fire...\nIsrael is occupying Palestinian's land illegally.there are 3 UN resolution that ask for the creation of a Palestinian state that Israel totally ignores...And the worst thing is that no one can do anything to make them apply those resolutions...\nSo as long as Israel thinks it's above the law more people are going to die there and millions of Palestinians will never come back to their land...
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It all started when the USA decided to take part of Palestine and give it to the Jews. Yes I agree that the Palestine people should get over it now, but have to understand their aggression. \n\nJust think if (let just say) Germany decided to take your state (because I don't know where your from) and give it to the Muslims. You would be pretty upset also. \n\nSo I think your question should be "Why is that Palestine is so angry with the USA?" It's because we basically told the people that used to live in (Israel) that they had to pack up all their things and leave from their home land and move.
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The simple answer is lack of education here in America.  People see that a group of of radical people attacked us and that they claimed to do it for the religion of Islam, and they go off and respond against everyone of that religion. It happens everytime in war.  Japan attacked the U.S. the U.S. responded by discriminating against all asians.  All Germans, Italians and Central/Eastern Europeans were also looked down on as the enemy to.  When countries go to war, the hatred always seems to follow.  It is truly an example that the Human Race has a long way to go.\n\nThe situation is further compounded when our media only gives half stories, such as they report that muslim governments fund terrorism by paying money to the families of suicide bombers and such.  They don't address the bigger problem such as, that most suicide bombers are recruited from young impressionable arab men and lately women, who have little or no money, and are lured into this job of a suicide bomber because they are told their families will be taken care of, which anyone who knows anything about Arab culture knows that family is valued very highly in it.\n\nThis all leads to the easier explanation that it's easier to hate the whole group instead of doing the work to find out who the real bad guys are and hating them.\n\nLet's take a look at Hamas, they were a terrorist organization, or a freedom fighter group depending on what side of the fence you're on.  They then decided to try things politically and managed to get elected.  That's democracy for you.  The IRA did the same thing in Ireland and the British and Americans hailed it as a victory, funny how the double standard comes into play...
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I am Muslim, a convert from christianity. I understand fully, I have had the same problem. My mom is a christian and very pro-Israel. She knows that I am Muslim but she forbids me to wear a Hijab or openly practice my religion. She had threatened to kick me out of the house other times for how I vote in elections so, I don't debate my religion with her. I agree with what the others said here that it is those radicals that give us a bad name. But I also think it is because of just pure ignorance of the truth mostly this ignorance is spread by the media.  It even extends to just being Arab or supporting the Arabs. I am originally American but I think of myself as an Arabist. I was in 10th grade english and the teacher announced to the whole class that I was with the Arabs. I didn't expect that but maybe it was because the teacher was Jewish but the whole class looked at me and I thought that I was going to be beaten up by how some of the kids were looking at me. This was shortly after 9/11 too. But above it all, I found happiness, I am happily married to an Egyptian Muslim, and will be making the Hajj in November, Inshallah. Those cartoons were overly offensive and shows why there is still the whole rift between East and West. Regardless of what those people say or do, keep your head up high and never allow them to get to you. Their fate like everything else is in Allah's hands.
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That would be such a great thing if all of us on Earth put our hatred of each others away, not just the US, including the Sunnis, the shia and everyone else.\n\nI don't hate any of them, and worked to help them out.  I among many more are against the war, and many of us spoke against it, but you seem to fail to recognize it ever happened!  Have you seen some of the hatred against the American! have you heard the chanting the death to the American, all of us!  \n\nYour question is so unfair! how quickly we forget 9/11 in New York, 7/7 in London, and Spain, and Egypt bombing of tourist area! etc etc.\n\nThe people of Iraq are suffering and dying.  Take a better look and see who is doing the killing! who is killing whom before you jump and accuse the American of all the hate!  pay attention to the news.  The Sunnis did this, and the shia did that, and the American did that!  how was their life before that miserable war, not so pretty as you would like to imagine it, or delusion yourself to believe.  \n\nPictures! you mean like the people who were searching for their family members on 9/11, or watching your son having his head cut off in front of you with what it appears to look like a butter knif! or watching your family member burned in a car, draged in the street, and hung on the bridge with a bunch of kids screaming with delight!  things like these!? and other more! is that what you mean!?\n\nSir, why don't you show us the way, and you start with stopping the hate.  Your question is just full of hate.  May God help us all.\n\nHave a little heart for others, all people not those whom you just care for.  I don't blame 9/11 on the Iraqis, as a matter of fact, I don't blame any group of the deed of the some.  You might try to do that as well, and not misjudge us all because you don't like what some of us or you had done.  The US is not alone in Iraq, you may not have known that.\n\nHow would you react if you saw you dad die in front of your eyes, and all he was doing is helping your people to get food, medicine and supplies, to give them aid, and the only reason he was killed was because he was an American? how would you react?? \n\n\nI am not a Bush fan, but don't bash all the American people just because of Bush. Bush will be gone when his term is over, and we will still be around, please stop the hate, it works both ways, not just one sided deal. That is the reality of us all.\n\nWe are always going to have people disagree with us, and push us around.  I am speaking of all people, not just the American; but in the end the universe will unravel as it should, and everything will be as it suppose to be.  Let's hope for the best, for all good honest people.\nStill typing
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hi, i dont know the FRUIT of US but i think that the Jewish terorism against Arab and Palestinian is more older than the Al Qaeda , anyway Al Qaeda was stablished by the American Goverement to help the Afghan and Muslims in the mid 80's to get out the Suvet occupation of Agfanestan and then with the money El Qaeda took from the American Gorvement they attacked it again. Anyway i hate either extremism in whatever religion, Jewish, Christain or Muslim, i think to be a moderate religious is the best to let all the people of the world leave in peace. An opinion from an Muslim guy . Thank you for your question and i hope u can find the truth and the real answers about it soon. TC
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It is precisely because of 'Josh's" answer that so many in other foreign countries dislike us. There is no need to be so defensive! I notice the same tired rhetorical attitudes, and that is exactly what they are. If we are so great, we needn't get so pee' oood\nwhen someone asks a legitimate question about US policies. The questioner is correct.Most in this country are warn and friendly. Jews are still caught up in the Holocaust and want everyone else to be also. \nBut they are wrong. We are all familiar with the Holocaust, just as we are familiar with other atrocities that have happened before us and those that are happening now.\nMost of the questions are legitimate. No one is constrained to answer if they find questions offensive. Its too bad there aren't more open minded people on board here.
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I'm reluctant to say all Muslims are guilty. I wonder though about where their heart is. We hear talk about how moderate Muslims reject extremism, violence in the name of religion, etc. But I've never seen much from moderate Muslims when it comes to stopping extremism. How many times have you seen Muslims drag one of their own out of a mosque, by the hair of their head, for preaching hate? I have never seen it. How many times have you heard of moderate Muslims expressing outright hatred for those who would kill innocents? I have not heard it. I suspect, with absolutely no proof, that many moderate Muslims wish for their more radical brothers in Islam to win the war on terror.
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Why should we support a terrorist organization just because it was democratically elected?\nHitler, too, was democratically elected. \n\nWhy all together, should we support people who danced on the streets on 9/11?\nThey hate our guts because we represent humanistic values which are anti-Islamic. \n******\nThey don’t hate the West because of Israel. NO they hate Israel, because it is a part of the WEST in their midst.\nAs such it is too much of a exposure of the failure of their Islamic “cultutre”
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We want them to stop strapping explosives to women and children and killing people in buses, restaurants and crowded marketplaces.\n\nOur perception of Arabs and Muslims is that they strap explosives to women and children and let them kill themselves and others in the places I mentioned above.\n\nOur perception of Arabs and Muslims is that they are eager to let Americans sacrifice their own lives to free Arabs and Muslims from tyranny and in their gratitude, the people who benefit from this sacrifice kill their liberators.\n\nOur perception of Arabs and Muslims is that they would like to have another holocaust to kill every Israeli, Jew and American on the planet.  This perception is supported by the fact that they strap explosives to women and children and allow them to kill Israelis, Americans and themselves in this manner.\n\nWhy?  Are you saying that none of this is true?  Tell me which parts are untrue.  Remember, we've all seen the videos of beheaded Americans and body parts in the streets.  You really are a lovely people, aren't you?
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What saddens me was reading about the death of "Al-Zarqawi" and the quote by bush.."Justice"\n\nThe responses by Americans disgusted me. \n\nHow can justice be served by dropping bombs on people? \nDoesn't that make America just as "bad" as the other side.\n\nActually i think America and Americans in general are some pretty  messed up people.
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I like Israel, personally. I can't say I agree with EVERYTHING Israel has done since 1948, but I do believe they only want security for themselves. This is understandable since they are surrounded by enemies who want them wiped off the face of the Earth. Keep up the fight. America still loves you. Shalom.
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Because we have liberals that prevent comprehensive measures. It's all part of the democratic process, not that Israel isn't an essentially free nation. I agree with you. I like Israel's style. I like how they dealt with Hamas' last leader. They F-16'd him! Just one guy, but they sent a missile strike. They certainly don't mess around. I would be scared to death living right next to a Hamas' lead country, but the Israelis do it every day. They are tough as nails.