Why Do They Hate US (Americans)?
I may be in a better position to answer this question, since I'm an Egyptian-American, who spent half my life in Egypt and the other half in USA. I do not belong to any Arabic-American group, or any Islamic organization, and therefore I have no political or financial obligations to anybody.
It is becoming clearer and clearer to the people in the USA that it isn't only an active Moslem minority (that we call terrorists) who hate us, but the silent and inactive Moslem majority, here and in Islamized countries, who share the same contempt.
The majority of the people in Islamized countries are being manipulated by a proactive minority into feeling that the U.S. and the West in general are against Moslems/Islamic world. In other words, it's a personal threat against people. When there is a personal threat, people become afraid and then a state of frenzy is created because of such fear. Islam is very clear, that when a Moslem is threatened or perceived to be threatened, he is to carry on a jihad (as explained in an earlier article from me, "How to Survive Islam").
When people are threatened in Islamized countries, then they think of the past, and they believe that any action by the U.S. is a new crusade (in the Middle Ages sense). The American people must realize this psychology. The most famous Egyptian movie ever made is called "Wa-Islamah", which means "in the name of Islam". This was/is the battle-cry among the Islamized people. The movie tells the story of Saladin who defeated the Crusaders in the Middle Ages. Remember a short time ago, when President George W. Bush used the term "crusade" in its generic meaning, he was bombarded in the Islamized world, and all media there reported that Bush had shown his true colors of his campaign, that his campaign is a crusade, in its Christian sense, against the Moslem/Islamic world.
If the American people ever want to win over the people in the Islamized countries, they must make it very clear that the European Crusades were wrong, wrong, wrong. On a personal note, I believe it was wrong, and to have a movie like "Braveheart" winning awards, etc, gives a bad image about the American society.
Additionally, a clear distinction must be made between the European Crusades of the Middle Ages and the creation of the State of Israel. The Koran itself named Palestine as the "promised land" for the Jews.
People in the Islamized world do not differentiate between the American and the European mentalities. They consider them to be one and the same. When in Egypt, I always draw a clear distinction between the USA and European countries. Americans do not want to colonize anybody. However, the history of Europe strives on their colonization history. When Americans go to war, they always want to get the job done and come home as soon as possible. But when Europeans go to war, it's a historical triumph, a kind of extension of their past "glorious history". That distinction was made clear in the last few weeks, in the comments made by the Prime Minister of Italy, whose main emphasis was on how superior the West is versus Islam, instead of how to deal with Islamic terrorism.
President Bush says that the battle is against terrorism and not Islam. This is not completely true. The battle is against the Islamic tenet of jihad. We have to differentiate between the two, no matter how uncomfortable it is. Islam can never be a "great religion" if one of its main tenets is the Islamic jihad. We have to continue challenging the defenders of Islam, regarding their ugly tenet of jihad.
Moustafa Gadalla
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