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2005-10-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Ulenter Slack9684 2005-10-01 11:04|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nonsense.

It is one thing to enjoy the imports and investments of America. It is quite another thing to stand behind America as it works to eliminate extremist Islam-which is arguably the biggest threat to our survival. I notice that America's foreign policies are not put in the spotlight in this attempt to whitewash Arab public opinion about Americans. Run your surveys on Arab public opinion on the War on Terror, on Iraq, on Israel's sovereignty. Unless we're prepared to turncoat on these issues, Arabs will continue to claim terror is a provocation by Americans that Arabs must challenge (translation: kill Americans for).

That said, what the comments above say about American intellectuals and movie stars is true. And those American journals so widely appreciated in Arabia are the same ones Rantburgers regularly cite as conduits for anti-American drivel. There is no doubt a huge slice of self-loathing in America. But to claim that anti-Americanism by Arabs is a myth is to imitate the ostrich Europe.

Posted by jules 2 2005-10-01 12:31|| 2005-10-01 12:31|| Front Page Top

#2 A myth, eh? That's reassuring. I thought all the celebration in the streets whenever something even remotely bad happened to the US actually meant something. Same with all the fatwahs and talk of the Great Satan. Glad that's been cleared up. Nothing to see here. Just move along

Posted by SteveS 2005-10-01 12:39|| 2005-10-01 12:39|| Front Page Top

#3 good points Jules, but I found the article interesting. I find it easy to believe that the source of anti-Americanism in the Arab world did not come from within the Arab world itself. Their villian, or Satan, if you will, has always been the Jews. It wasn't until recently that they actually began to hate us. Their beef with us today is really based on the idea that the good ol' Zionist Cabal is pulling our puppet strings.

Until the Muslim world gets off their addiction of blaming the Jews for everything and learns to move beyond the milk-blood of revenge of humiliation, they will never succeed in the modern world.

I think it's an interesting point to consider.

Posted by 2b 2005-10-01 15:08|| 2005-10-01 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 their hate has more to do with self-contempt and victimhood (first the Jooos, then us) - both Arab pathologies, and only the first one legitimate

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