all the world including arabs and muslims used to love usa ,untill it started its blind support to israel ,and started using double standard when dealing with israel and the muslim world,since then the arabs and muslims started to hate usa and feel unjust and thats when the terrore started,\ndont u think if america was fair ,terror wont be there?\ni know that terror is wrong but it does have reasons,right?
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It´s a factor certainly. The only way to win the war on terror is to completely reverse its foreign policy. Of course that maniac has decided invasion is a better idea.
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Americans have lost fear. They are not afraid of anything anymore, and that is why they are unfortunately declining. \n\nThey think they are all powerful and rightous literaly living in a bubble they created around themselves that is shielding them from the truth. \n\nThe truth is that they are loosing to the global competitors due to thier reckless actions that have cost them thier true allies. \n\nThe continue to support the wrong sides, by Supporting the Israeli Occupation of Palestine for instance for many decades, they have created millions of enemies amongst the Arab and Islamic world, because by nature, Muslims are justice loving people, and they don't like to see another country, such as the US, supporting a violater in his act, in this case, the Zionist (Jewish Exremism) violation of Palestine. \n\nSome Americans might be afraid, but the American Administration, with "Gods" President, the self-declared "War President" is not afraid of anything, not afraid of the Rising EU, China, India, Japan, etc. \n\nSo to answer your question, unfortunately, fear does not exist in this culture, for it fears not the Lord.
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I've been to ground zero.  It happened.  Whether Osama, Israel, or the US was  responsible ---is all guesswork at this point.   The US has defiantly staged events like this in the past to justify a war---The sinking of the Maine, Gulf of Tonkin, etc...  But 9/11?   We saw Osama admit it in the videos.  I wouldn't want to think that our country is so evil we could ever do this, although in my heart I know there is a chance we could have.
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Oh please I'm really tired of this shit, Muslim are human, if they where insulted big they should be very angry, if their land is being occupied they should fight to liberate it, why don't you see what the American s are doing and saying and say where's the moderate Americans, why should we be the ones who stay week and taking it all the time\n\nComment on new posts >>\n\nYou people just don't listen, you just wann be trapped on your own media propaganda without thinking it over, we are simply humans, if you occupied our country then we'll fight you, if you keep bombing us and refuse to reason, then some people will turn to violence as the only way left, it's as simple as that, if you still don't understand, then there's something seriously wrong with you!!
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I am an American, and I don't hate the Middle East. I don't hate any country. But I can see how countries around the world would think that Americans hate their respective countries. The USA being the only remaining super power feels that it must police the rest of the world because (we) have the money and or resources to do so. This can be good...like when we stop people from killing eachother and whatnot. But more often than not (especially now that Bush is KING) we go where we are not wanted and go for the wrong reasons....giving the wonderful people of this beautiful country a bad name.
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It seems strange to me that you believe that there are only a "handful" of Muslims terrorists or extremists.  They have committed bombings and massacres all over the word!  There are people suffering in these countries because of their own countries governments!  America cannot and should not take all the blame for these countries problems.  There are too many lazy ass American's who do nothing and bitch about how horrible our country is.  I am so tired of it!  If America is really that bad, maybe you should just go to one of the extremists countries and see if you like it better there!
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I know that in large cities, there are plenty of Arabs and Muslims and people are used to seeing them and probably have come to realize that they are not dangerous or to be hated just for being Arab or Muslim.  \n\nBut I must tell you the truth.  There are people who hate Arabs and Muslims.  But our laws in USA are made to protect people from hate crimes and persecution.  So I hope you would be safe here, and in fact, I feel confident that you would be safe so long as you respect the laws of our country.\n\nI live in a small town, and even here, I am not aware of any problem with being Muslim or Arab here.  My doctor is a Muslim, and I THINK he's Arab, although I'm not sure.  But he is open about being Muslim, and he even has a Qur'an in his office.  He is respected here as a doctor and I've never heard anyone express hatred of him for his religion.\n\nWhere I go to college is still fairly small, but a little bigger than my hometown, and I daily see Muslim women in hijab, etc.  I have never seen anyone mistreat them at all, and they are respected.\n\nI regularly go to a store that sells Middle Eastern foods and it is owned by a Muslim family from Syria, and they serve lots of the Muslim students.  Again, I've never heard of any problems.  He is the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet, and he is respected by the people in the town.\n\nI cannot speak for Europe or Australia, but I have heard of lots of anti-Muslim things happening in France.  If I were a Muslim I do not think I would want to go to France.\n\nI hope that this answers your question.  In my book, you are sure welcome in our country.
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Israel and the USA are buddies because they back each other up. The USA has some support from moderate Islamic countries in the Middle East. \nI think its a damn shame that Israel and the US can do what ever it likes to defend itself. There are international laws and the military "rules of engagment" that Israel and the US like to ignore a lot (like the terrorist). \n\nIf Israel and the US kill innocent people to kill or capture terrorist then these countries are NO BETTER than the terrorist who attack and kill innocents to attack US and Israel interests in the Middle East. \n\nI do not support the horrible methods that terrorist use but I see NO difference between what the US, Israel and terrorist. \n\nExample:\n\nIf a terrorist blows himself up and half a city block to take out a US Embassy or an Israel market place and he kills and wounds several civilians then he is evil.\n\nIf a US or Israel destroyed a car with a missle (whatever) that a terrorist was driving and this action results in the death and injury or innocent cilivians nearby then it is also an evil act. There is no difference what-so-ever between thier tactics of attack/defense.\n\nWe and Israel need to obey the rule of international law even when fighting terrorists otherwise we are like the terrorists we fear and hate.
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Because the idea that they attack us from the "hatred of freedom" is silly.\n\nAt the core, the current troubles in the mid-east are an internal muslim civil war. These countries are caught between their own culture, which has a rich history, and modernizing, which comes with the risk of "westernization." (Until the seventeenth century the Islamic kingdoms were more advanced than their European counterparts.)\n\nThe attacks against the west are, in general, attacks against the source of modernization in the mid-east, and against the US in particular, the source of money for various authoritarian governments.\n\nThat does not mean we shouldn't fight terrorists and protect ourselves. Of course we should. But to understand this "war" we need to deal with the root causes - and those are all in the mid-east.\n\n("War" in quotes, because, as horrific as acts of terror have been, the current situation is nothing compared to WWI or WWII, or to the possibility of species extinction that came with the Cold War.)\n\nAdded:\nAlthough this is a minority opinion, I think the ultimate source of Arab anger against Israel is part of the internal muslim civil war. Of course the Arabs have grievances (as do the Israelis), but external Arab governments have done nothing but enflame the situation for 50 years. There are many cases of tragic explusions of peoples (Greeks from Western Turkey after WWI, the India-Pakistan split, Germans from Prussia and Poland after WWII), but in these cases other countries have attempted to settle the newcomers and establish new communities. This, tragically, has never happened for the Palestianians.\n\nIn my opinion, the Palestians have been cruely used by external Arab governments as a way to distract their own people from internal problems due to corruption and poor government.
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I agree with the first two answers, historically they are just repeating the same mistakes and are likely to continue to do so. \n\nMind you, there is less noise now about invading Iran next. \n\nMeantime, they are "riding the tiger" and don't know how to get off.\n\nThe people who sit in the comfort of their homes stating "we will stand and fight" make me ill to my stomach. THEY are not there - its someone else getting maimed and blown up. They are the sort who send people to fight these wars - other people. Can't they see that nobody wins these conflicts? People die, the innocent right along with the "guilty" .\n\nI think your "destroying people's lives" is a less than impartial generalisation, but I would suppose you have a specific grievance you have not shared? I do not think "they" set out to do this. It was a side effect.\n\nOh and one final comment? It was not a war it was an invasion. The success of an invasion is not invading, its holding what you have invaded.\n\nAnd for the "gentleman" who assumes all that is not pro-American is thus Muslim extremist - I am neither Muslim nor extremist. He would do well to familiarise himself with a little basic geography (all Muslims are not Arab) and understanding of the theology of other religions than his own (all Muslims are not extremist and true Islam advocates tolerance),  although I doubt he has properly studied his own.
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Why do you think all Americans hate Muslims?  I lived in Indonesia for awhile.  I even fasted for Rahmadan (please forgive my spelling) out of respect for my host family.  It was hard, but I though alot about God during that time.  I went to church last sunday and heard a surrmon on how Islam is a false religion.  I got so mad I walked out and will not return to that church.  If we do not preach religious tollerance, what will the world become.  So, no personaly I do not hate Muslims.  What I don't like though, are terrorists foriegn or American.
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Because our media is biased to favor government policies and the current administration so this comment was not reported in the US at the time it happened. \n I only heard it myself about two years ago and have to say I am not surprised. The nation of Israel was only created so that we would something in the middle east to stir up animosity amongst the arabs.
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in these times of political correctness, they ONLY people you are allowed to list as evil is america, bush, christians, the west, and the white race. \n\nanyone outside of these categories are free to murder, maim, rape, and assault anyone they want and if you dare criticize them you're tarred as a racist.\n\nthe leftist liberals are the reason the islamic terrorists are attacking the west. why? because they know they will stick up for them no matter what atrocity they commit. if it were the 1940's, islamic terrorist wouldn't dare tangle with america or the west because they know it would trigger a world war. but today, they know we have been so brainwashed and manipulated by marxist guilt tripping into believeing that if our country is attacked, it's our own fault. notice the pattern??\n\nthey attack america, it's america's fault\n\nthey attack spain, it's spain's fault.\n\nthey attack england, it's england's fault.\n\nthey attack israel, it's israel's fault. \n\nthey riot in france, it's france's fault.\n\nliberals can't PHYSICALLY bring themselves to admit that islamic terrorists are evil.
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I think that is an excellent question and it deserves alot of attention based on logic. However, terrorist are not jealous of or hate freedom (yet one could make the same argument about them, does their action in a war, especially targeting civilians destroy freedom as well? Yes.), Bin Laden's chief complaint is that the US military sat in Saudi Arabia for twelve years and he interpreted that as a dominanting occupying force. There are many other examples that support how the terrorists feel as if they are freedom fighters fighting oppression, and quite frankly if they are right or not doesn't matter. Its the fact that they see themselves as defenders of freedom and they can not therefore be jealous of or hate freedom.
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Personally, after doing some research by myself and reading about yours, I don't understand how you end up on the side of Israel. But that is your opinion. It is not so much where you end rather than how you got there that makes me wonder.\n \nI don't live in the USA and my opinion is that depending on the region of the world you get your information from, it will greatly shape your opinion. We can even see trend from countries to countries.\n\nOne thing for sure. To league with them because they have through so much persecution is not bringing one single tear to me. If they had been through so many and had learnt from it, they would understand there will never ever be a good reason to do the same to other.
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I can't believe you have already ignored the most recent past. The criminals were those Arabs who attacked the USA on 9-11 in New York and Washington. They are the ones who "interfered" with our way of life.\n\nAll we're doing is attempting to bring those who attacked us to justice. Why don't you admit that the USA has the right to protect itself against those who attacked us?\n\nTX Guy
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In some aspects, they do have a point.\n\nThe USA won't mind our own business. The arabs see the USA as imperialist hell bent on destroying them.\n\nThe US needs to do some good PR and change the situation.