"Wolfbrother" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Its unbelievable how completely wrong you are. It is disturbing how
ignorant and missguided Americans are about the rest of the world.
Very scary. Thats what happens when you get your information from the
mainstream corporate controlled press. Let me guess, you watch Fox
"News". I love the way Chung said he agrees with you. That gave me a
good laugh. I cant blame you totaly. I was just like you or any
other ignorant American untill I decided to expand my intake of
information and investigate things on my own and seek indepentant
sources.
I think your path to enlightenment has been derailed if you call everyone
who disagrees with you as ignorant, misguided, and misled.
Please read from the other side then.
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2003/issue4/jv7n4a5.html
The nature of Islamist anti-Americanism is cultural rather than
military or political. It is based on the sense of an ongoing and eternal
global conspiracy against Islam and the Muslims. The threat emerged in the
Prophet's time, continued with the Crusaders, and through the Muslim defeats
in the twentieth century, until salvation emerged in Afghanistan in the form
of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of Qa'idat al-Jihad
and similar groups. The United States is just another force in history that
represents the devilish factors seeking to fight the true believers.
Surrounded and supported by such doctrines, Islamist anti-Americanism
is part of a broad religious worldview. Hence, it is not subject to
compromise. In Islamist eyes, since this is a war of self-defense and an
asymmetric one as well, hatred of the enemy is total. As a result of the
religious nature of this worldview, Islamists are publishing dozens of
fatwas, articles, and books, which rely on the Koran and the sacred Islamic
sources to mobilize large parts of the Muslim world into adopting various
degrees of anti-Americanism.
In December 2001, one of these scholars, Muhammad Abu 'Arafah, wrote an
article that became very popular. It is entitled "The Glorious Koran
Foresees the Destruction of the United States and the Drowning of the
American Army."(8) According to the author, the article is an analysis
prepared shortly after the September 11 attacks. The "analysis" is based on
the Koranic stories that were taken from the Bible about Pharaoh in the book
of Exodus. According to Abu 'Arafah, the end of the United States is going
to be in 2004, with the end of the rule of President George W. Bush, "Ramses
the 2nd."
Present day anti-Americanism makes such articles very popular among
Islamist youngsters, whether they actually believe it or just read it as
expressions of wishful thinking. Yet there is a strong wish for a very
violent revenge. As the only superpower, the United States is perceived as
the major target against which to channel this struggle for Muslim honor.
Islamist anti-Americanism is also a kind of default act among a wide range
of Muslims, and easily adoptable by broad circles.
As long as there is a need for an enemy and for revenge,
anti-Americanism will remain part of Islamist religious and cultural
doctrines, and will go on fueling the Islamist Jihad, either its violence
and terrorism, or its political element. A change away from this approach
can only come from within the Muslim world, through social and cultural
developments.
