Why Do They Hate Us? Strange answers lie in al-Qaida's writings.

[torchbearer]

http://www.slate.com/id/2171752/?gt1=10346

Why Do They Hate Us?
Strange answers lie in al-Qaida's writings.
By Reza Aslan
Posted Monday, Aug. 6, 2007, at 1:49 PM ET
Why do they hate us?

Americans have been asking this question for nearly six years now, and for six years President Bush and his accomplices have been offering the same tired response: "They hate us for our freedoms." With every passing year, that answer becomes less convincing.

Part of the problem has to do with the question itself. Who exactly are they? Are we referring to al-Qaida and its cohorts? Are we talking about Iran, Syria, and the other nation-states whose interests in the Middle East do not properly align with America's? Or perhaps we mean Hamas, Hezbollah, or the myriad religious nationalist organizations across the Muslim world that share neither the ideology nor the aspirations of global, transnational groups like al-Qaida, but that have nevertheless been dumped into the same category: them.

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[Original_Intent]

The text is hard to read but here is a youtube video that I made on this. Sorry it was just my second video so I was still learning the basics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxZxZ9LCafE

 

[american.swan]

I feel this article gives more evidence for the idea that this terrerist is in a military hospital in Pakistan being watched after.

 

[atilla]

they hate us because we let mary-kate and ashley get nose jobs and ruin their natural beauty. noses are very important to muslims.

 

[disinter]

The Reason for Blowback

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIjfOcGW2Yg

 

[noxagol]

The reason for blow back? REVENGE!

Good god, it is that simple. Blow Back=Revenge. Plain and simple. The British felt blow back in 1776. Why? They treated the colonies like shit, so we said FU! That is blow back.

The reason people think that the idea is ridiculous is two fold. 1)Nationalism instead of patriotism. Nationalism is a strong feeling of loyalty to the American state. Patriotism is a strong feeling of loyalty to the American idea, which is dictated by the founding fathers. 2)They don't know what has really happened in the world.