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In this period United States were hope, light and candle in the time where
France and Britain were both colonial.
In short, the American Revolution 1776, successive U.S governments, U.S
presidents have been the focus of admiration and love of the oppressed
peoples, especially the Arab and Islamic peoples, because U.S used to
represent freedom and democracy.
United states were in Arab and Muslim peoples justice, science ,civilization
but unfortunately all that is finished after 1945, and the nice and wonderful
image was dead , here is the second stage ,stage of hatred.
So why? What are the real reasons which caused death of the beautiful
image and led to the birth of this ugly image?
H.Truman
.who died in this carnage was children, elders, and many isolated from
any gun. The leader of this massacre was Ariel Sharon. After this painful
event U.S didn’t say any thing, indeed U.S ever reproached Jews
governments about their illegal actions.
Palestinian
child killed by
Israel
Palestinians killed
by Israel
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Here you are a sadly image about a Palestinian mother between her
hands her little kid injured or killed we don’t know exactly by Israeli
army
Arabic and Muslim world have hated U.S because it’s positions and
policy.
Arabs and Muslims worldwide believe that Israel control U.S policy ,
Hassan El-Najjar wrote in Al-JaZeerah.info ,March 5,2007 an article
about How Israel Lobby Controls US Policies: The Arab Bank Case (This
is a classical example of how the Israeli lobby controls US policies. In
1967, Israel launched a war of aggression in which it occupied parts of
Syria, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza.
The case of suing the Arab Bank for facilitating aid from Arab charities to
needy Palestinians is a clear example of the tight Israeli control over the
US government to do the Israeli bidding. The objective is to help Israelis
continue their subjugation of the Palestinian people as long as possible.
It punishes anyone who tries to help needy Palestinians, whose only fault is
to desire to be free of Israeli bondage.) This is relation between U.S and
Israel in Arabs eyes.
("The Israelis do not settle for the terrorism they practise against the
Palestinians, but they also practise intellectual and moral terrorism against
whoever speaks of rights," said Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher.
"Some Arab brothers viewed that it would be proper not to attend and we
respect their decisions, but the majority viewed it was essential to go
anywhere to defend our cause and to take the fig leaf off Israel's
manoeuvres and crimes," he said.
On whether Maher would meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
on the sidelines of the Valencia conference, Maher said "frankly, I don't
want to meet him but if he asks to meet me, I'm ready for it.
However, he will not be pleased with what he is going to hear from me."
Execution of Saddam Hussein still until now the biggest question: Why
U.S has chosen November 30th, 2006, date of Eid –Aladha (Religious
festival for Muslims), Arabs peoples have named this day of execution
(the black day).
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Choose this day was considered as challenge to all Arabs and Islamic
peoples. In fact, President George. W.Bush was able to choose an other
day for the execution of Saddam Hussein. This event add more and more
hatred against U.S.
"The truth is, the US - or more precisely a stubborn Bush - has got itself
into a situation in which it sees no honourable way out.
"There are pundits who claim the inevitable civil war is only being delayed
by a US presence, so if it is inevitable, then let the inevitable happen."
Qatari Arabic dailies Al-Watan and Al-Sharq said the "unwise and undue"
timing of Saddam's execution could further deepen the factional fracture
which all concerned parties were keen to avert.
The papers said it was not easy for the Iraqis to forget the politicised
execution of Saddam, screened worldwide, but urged warring rivals "to
resort to tolerance and reconciliation to end sectarian violence".
The Lebanese Arabic daily Al-Safir said that Saddam was the first Arab
president to be executed under occupation, saying the motivation was
political and reflects on the sectarian divide between Sunnis and Shia.
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Al Jazeera correspondent Hoda Abd al-Hamid said Baghdad had started to
come back to life on Monday, but that traditional New Year's celebrations
had not gone ahead.
She said mourning tents had been put up in Tikrit and people were
demonstrating near the village where Saddam was buried in a family plot
next to his two sons.)
In New York, the Reverend Jesse Jackson said on Monday that the
execution would not make the US safer and would only increase the
violence in Iraq.
"Killing him intensifies the violence, reduces our moral authority in the
world," said Jackson, who has travelled to the Middle East on peace
missions.
"Today we are not more secure. We're less secure. We've missed a moment
to appeal to those in Iraq to break the cycle of violence."
The deposed Iraqi president was hanged on Saturday, three years after
being captured. He was buried on Sunday.
"Saddam Hussein didn't hit us. Bin Laden hit us," he said. "Iraq didn't hit
us. The Taliban hit us."
Jackson said the US was complicit in the trial and execution of Saddam by
the Iraqis "because we held him in our custody, and the government in Iraq
today is a government subsidised by the US".
"She said they had hanged a patriot,'' the girl's father, Man Mohan
Karmakar, said from the town of Kharda.
"We didn't take her seriously when she told us that she wanted to feel the
pain Saddam did during the execution.''
He said his daughter, called Moon Moon, and had become extremely
depressed after watching Saddam's execution on television.
"She kept watching the scene over and again and didn't take food on
Saturday and Sunday to protest against the hanging,'' he said.
Mohamed Ali meeting place, the headquarters of the union which was
drawn up a giant portrait of the "martyr Saddam", less than 1,000 trade
unionists, members of associations and lawyers led by Ben Moussa
Bâtonnier Abdessattar resumed slogans hostile to Washington as well as in
Tehran.
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"You lived a hero, you died a hero", "no imperialist interests in Arab land",
"honor to the martyrs, glory to the resistance, shame the valets (Arabic),"
proclaimed banners around the building TGUL.
The President of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights
(LDHR), Mokhtar Trifi, calling it "killing" the execution of Saddam
Hussein. However, the meeting was marked by an altercation between Mr.
Trifi and Tunisian lawyer for Saddam Hussein, Ahmed Seddik Me, which
criticized the LTDH "not having published any release since the arrest of
the former Iraqi president.
In fact, I don’t think that American people had read this news before
because of preoccupation with daily life. Jacob.G.Homberger said :( All
their lives, Americans had been taught that foreign policy was for federal
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“experts” and, thus, they had chosen not to concern themselves with what
their federal officials were doing to people abroad. Innocently believing
that federal overseas personnel, including the CIA and the military, had
been helping foreigners for decades; Americans had no reason to doubt the
official U.S. pronouncement immediately after 9/11: “We are innocent. The
terrorists hate us for our freedom and values. That’s why they have
attacked us.”)
So American people are not interested in U.S foreign policy, and they trust
on their experts politicians.
These are not the only reasons which make Arabs and Muslims people,
the sadly reason the support for the Arab regimes hated by their people.
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This is an article was written by Khalid Amayreh, October 2001 (The U.S.
has been, and continues to be, the sponsors, the sponsors and the
justification for the misery of my people in the last sixty years.
The USA are the authors of 60 years of suffering, death, loss, occupation,
oppression, deprivation of shelter and bullying.
The USA are the protectors, defenders, the engine and guarantors of
despotism, dictatorship, dynastic fiefdoms of, and autocracies and
theocracies, oligarchies, and monarchies brutal Muslim world.
The U.S. is the bad power that refuses to release my person from foreign
occupation of Nazi type who kills our children and steal our land.
The USA is the tyrant, the global dictatorship that deprives hundreds of
millions of Arabs and Muslims of their right to freely elect their government
and leaders because U.S fears of big business benefits of democracy in the
Muslim world.
The U.S. treat us, my people and me as the "children of a God of second
class.»
I do not want to be. I hate to kill innocent people, because in our religion,
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to kill an innocent human being is tantamount to killing the entire human
race.
I know that the "hatred" is not a good thing. I try really not to allow my
hatred of the U.S. government and its murderous policy to move from its
static to its dynamic form.
However, others who may even hate the USA more than me will not be able
to keep as much cold-blooded, return their grievances, and remain "wise."
I know that hatred can be indiscriminate and deadly. But I also know that
oppression, as the Quran clearly states, is worse than murder.
Therefore, I try; even I try to make my hatred of the USA also reasonable,
as constructive, as humane as possible. And it is not because the U.S.
should be treated humanely.
My goal and my people shall be free, free from Israeli oppression and
occupation commissioned and funded by the US.
I want to be freed from the Jewish occupation, apartheid and racism Jewish
Jew.
I also want to be free from hatred, even hatred toward the USA. But I know
too well that I can not be relieved of the effect as I would not be freed from
the cause and the cause is the greed, rapacity and hegemony U.S...
All we want is to be left in peace and live a normal life by exercising our
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rights and freedoms given by God. Like other human beings.
Is it too much to ask?
http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=1093&lg=fr
Israelians ask this question: why Arabs and Muslims hate U.S and Israel
too.
To understand why an article in the "Das Bild 'in German and translated
by Claude Lesselbaum.
(They burn the flag of Israel and the United States. They cry: "Death to
Jews! USA Death to the devil.
The Israeli air raids against Hamas in Gaza push extremist Muslims in the
streets, around the globe. Tens of thousands of them violently manifested in
the Arab and Islamic capitals.
One reason is that Israel is quite different from all its neighbours - it is a
democracy, only in the region. This is an open country in the world, happy
living, modern, successful, women have equal rights. This creates envy.
Especially among those who have nothing.
The journalist Michel Friedman: "It is indeed a war by proxy. Israel is the
Middle East forward position, the symbol of Western values hated by the
Arabs and Islamists: Freedom, Democracy, the consideration for the
dignity of man - but also the Instruction. The dominant class of Arab and
Islam would keep his youth in poverty and ignorance, because it is more
accessible to violence.)
My American friend was right, we do hate them now, but he never asked
himself the question “Why?” Why a people living on the other side of the
planet should feel any sort of emotion toward the Americans, be it hate or
love? Does anyone ever ask if the Muslims hate the Chileans or love the
Chinese or dislike the Uruguayans? No, we are forever asked to express
some sort of intense emotion toward the Americans. So, I have to admit
finally, after decades of relations with the US, that they have convinced us
that we should feel something and that our feelings have been boiled down
today to pure hate. And why not? What have we as a people seen from the
US in the past half century but an absence of respect for Muslim life,
culture or religion, contempt and disregard for our rights and finally
murder and torture from Afghanistan to Iraq.
The US has further driven us to dislike America with its blind support for a
colonialist power such as Israel, in fact the only one left in the region.
Whenever we have tried in the past to help alleviate the plight of the
Palestinians we only got vetoed by the US at the UN Security Council
followed by the free flow of arms and money to kill our fellow compatriots
from Palestine to Lebanon. And whenever we Arabs try to get arms to
defend ourselves against one of the strongest armies in the world, which
has never hesitated in using its destructive power with impunity against us,
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we are blocked by America from acquiring the means by which we could
defend ourselves.
We have watched America attack us, destroy us, impose embargoes against
our nations and then conquer our lands, imprison our people and generally
deal with us as though we are savage animals whereby every single law be
it international or even American is totally disregarded when it concerns
the rights of Arab and Muslim individuals. Then they ask us why we hate
them? Tell me why do you hate us? What terrible crime have the Muslims
committed against you in the past to deserve your interminable enmity?
What have we done to see you rampage through our lands destroying and
killing, and then claiming obscenely that it was worth it for the sake of
liberty and democracy?
Is it worth it for the million and a half Iraqis murdered in the embargo or
the thousands of Afghans killed by your ever so “smart” bombs? Or should
we ask the Iraqis of today, whom you’ve killed by the thousands? Was all
this death and destruction worth it for them? Did you ever bother to ask
their opinion before you played God with the lives and destinies of this
nation?
Finally, you take aim at our religion by humiliating our beliefs. You abuse
our book, use our convictions to torture us and degrade us, disregarding
your own laws and religion which is as noble as ours and to which torture
and humiliation is anathema.
What were you thinking when you threw the Qur’an in the toilet or when
you used religion as a means of torture? I fail to see the efficacy of such
actions in the so-called war on terror. These methods only point to a deep
sickness in your society to which it will take decades for us and the rest of
the world to understand its cause and to measure its destructive results. No,
the question which someday will have to be answered is why, why do you
the Americans hate us the Muslims so much?)
I try really hard to point out the reasons for this feeling through the
presentation of pictures and articles were published across the Arab and
Islamic press.
There is no doubt that Americans themselves also have this feeling (hatred)
towards Arabs and Muslims, and feel that the Arabs and Muslims constitute
a real threat to the security and comfort and quiet of their lives.
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Many articles were published about that subject, and many opinions were
made on forums.
There are many cases we can learn from. At Boston University, according
to Ulil Abshar Abdalla, Muslims observed tarawih last month in a hall
called Sacred Place where believers of any faith can observe their prayers
and services.
The U.S. is very tolerant of any religious life. Its constitution, particularly
the First Amendment, guarantees all citizens the right to have and express
their faith.
While some Muslims in other parts of the world want an Islamic state to
guarantee the right to practice their religion, some American Muslims I
have met said they do not need an Islamic state.
Why? America gives them most of what they need to be a pious Muslim
without it being an Islamic state. For sure, it is not a perfect country.
However, has an Islamic state existed and given anything better than what
America has?
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In the U.S., Muslims of Somalia, Cambodia, and Palestine have found
asylum and help. They live a better life and are more secure in this non-
Islamic country.
Thus, why do Muslims hate America? Why is America and its interests the
target of Muslim hatred?
The answer is that, in fact, Muslims do not hate America, but rather the
interventionist policy of the U.S. government. The presence of U.S. troops
in the Muslim heartland, Saudi Arabia, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait,
was the supposed reason behind the Sept. 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of
Afghanistan and Iraq are the main reason for the many suicide bombings in
the last three years.
It seems that both Muslims and the U.S. government do not pay attention to
where their relations intersect.
In relation to the Muslim world and the U.S., actually there are four entities
involved: the American Government and the American people on the one
hand; and the Muslim world and American Muslims on the other.
Unfortunately, these four entities have been lazily simplified into two
polarised entities: Muslims and the U.S., my side or your side, my interests
or your interests.
The beautiful picture of Muslim and U.S. relations mentioned above has
been overshadowed by the negative aspects of those two worlds: the bad
foreign policy of the American government toward Islamic countries; and
the bad reaction of radical Muslims.
The victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack were innocent Americans, non-
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Muslims as well as American Muslims. They might not agree with their
government and they did not deserve to die in the attacks.
On the other hand, the victims of the war on terrorism are innocent
Muslims. In the U.S., many innocent American Muslims are arrested
without due process. In Europe and Australia, a number of mosques were
closed by the government.
We should not wait any longer to realise these complexities. The hatred in
the Muslim world proliferated by the interventionist policy of the U.S.
government in Islamic countries and the overreaction of U.S. government
policy triggered by terrorist actions should be stopped right now.
The radical Muslims have to realise that their project has brought more
disadvantages than benefits to the Muslim world. If they really want to fight
for the Muslim world, they need to recalculate what Muslims have
experienced after Sept. 11.
Muslims may hate Bush for his interventionist and arbitrary policies, but
they are not alone in arguing against Bush's policy; many Americans do
too.
Muslims should not hate America because Americans are not Bush; and
because American Muslims do love their country. What should American
Muslims do if Muslims in the rest of the world hate their beloved country?)
Source: The Jakarta Post, January 5, 2006
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Muslims Ask: Why Do They Hate Us?
(In December 1998, I met a waiter in the quiet Egyptian port of Suez. As I
sipped tea in his cafe, he pulled up a chair to chat, as Egyptians often do to
welcome strangers. Not long into our amiable repartee, he looked me in the
eye.
"Now I want to ask you a blunt question," he said. "Why do you Americans
hate us?" I raised my eyebrows, so he explained what he meant and, in
doing so, provided some insights into why others hate us.
Israel uses all of this aid to build new settlements on Palestinian land and
to buy US-made warplanes and helicopter gunships. "Why do Americans
support Israel when Israel represses Arabs?" the waiter asked.
He went on: Evidence clearly shows that the US-led economic sanctions on
Iraq punish Iraqi civilians while hardly touching Saddam Hussein's regime.
A UNICEF study in 1999 backed him up, saying that 500,000 children
under five would be alive today if sanctions did not exist. Surely Iraqi
children are not enemies of international peace and security, the waiter
expostulated, even if their ruler is a brutal dictator.
The only logic this young Egyptian could see was that America was
pursuing a worldwide war against Islam, in which the victims were
overwhelmingly Muslim. America is a democracy, he concluded, so
Americans must hate Muslims to endorse this war.
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I groaned inwardly. Here, I thought, was a person as woefully misinformed
about America as most Americans are about the Middle East.
Painstakingly, in my rusty Arabic, I explained that although the United
States is a democracy, we Americans do not choose our government's
allies, nor do we select its adversaries. We do not vote on the annual
foreign aid budget. There are no referenda on the ballot asking whether the
United States should send abundant aid to Israel, or whether the United
States should pressure the UN Security Council into maintaining sanctions
against Iraq, or whether the Fifth Fleet should prowl the Persian Gulf to
protect our oil supply.
Americans do have the ability to vote out of office politicians who embrace
various foreign policies, but Americans rarely have accurate information
about the effect of those policies, in the Middle East or elsewhere. If they
knew, I argued, they would speak up in opposition, because Americans
have a fundamental sense of fairness. I concurred that it was imperative to
debunk Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims as wild-eyed, Koran-
waving fanatics. These are pernicious ideas that stand in the way of fair
judgment.
Our conversation lasted for hours. When we reached a pause, the waiter
invited me to dinner at his house. There I met his brother, a devout Muslim.
He too asked me why America hates Arabs and Muslims. I spent two more
hours talking with him. When I left, he told me warmly how happy he was
"to connect with an American on a human level." He and I shook hands like
old friends, as we agreed that both Americans and Arab Muslims should
strive to puncture the myth that "we" are somehow essentially different
from "them."
A civilized human society cannot afford to think in those tribal terms. That
type of thinking leads to despair, and thence to wholly unjustifiable
disasters such as Americans have just experienced. Most Americans who
have lived or travelled in the Arab world can relate similar experiences:
Arabs are entirely capable of differentiating between a people and the
actions of its government, or the values of a people and the political agenda
of a narrow minority of them. What confuses, and, yes, angers them is that
we do not seem to return the favor.
Scant days after I returned from Suez to Cairo, President Clinton ordered
US fighter-bombers to attack Iraq, ostensibly because Hussein had expelled
UN weapons inspectors from his country. The "surgical strikes" of
Operation Desert Fox, like previous and subsequent campaigns, maimed
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and killed defenceless Iraqi civilians. Meanwhile, virtually every news
outlet in Egypt ran pictures of grinning US seamen painting "Happy
Ramadan" on the missiles destined for Baghdad. Those pictures mocked the
suffering of Muslims, just as they mocked my attempts at playing cultural
ambassador.
Only days after Desert Fox, the Iraq story faded from the front pages
entirely, and the nation returned to its obsession with the Monica Lewinsky
scandal. What could that waiter in Suez have been thinking of my careful
distinctions then?
After watching unjust US policies continue for years without apology, after
hearing of incidents of racist anti-Arab backlash following the execrable
crimes of Sept. 11, perhaps he also senses great tragedy in that the
hijackers spoke to Americans in a language the US government speaks all
too well abroad.)
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) , May 9, 2006 by James Sloan Allen
Christian Science Monitor
(We have grown sadly used to hearing that the rest of the world,
particularly the Islamic world, hates America. But here is some good news.
It comes from hundreds of firsthand reports by participants in exchange
programs under the American Councils for International Education. Here
are samples from participants in some Islamic countries.
People from these countries who spend time in the United States under
exchange programs not only prize the democratic culture they find here;
more important, they typically go home bent on instilling the virtues of
America in their own nations -- like the teacher who exclaimed: "I was
back in Turkmenistan! Back in my home country! I made up my mind to do
whatever I could to make my country a better place to live" because
"America inspired me and showed me what was possible."
Here are some similar examples of this good news from the predominantly
Islamic region of the former Soviet Union, a crucial front in the war of
ideas with autocracy and Islamic fundamentalism.
Today she is a Muslim with democratic ideals who has thrown herself into
the work of securing rights for children.
In Tajikistan, a young man who says he had "become stronger, active, free
and more responsible" in the United States set out "to study everything
related to human rights" and to serve that cause. He then joined the
Republic Bureau of Human Rights and the Rule of Law, a human rights
protection organization, where he organizes legal clinics for his fellow
Tajiks, reports on human rights violations in prisons, and helps a U.N.
agency monitor Tajik laws for their compliance with the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Although these examples are few and anecdotal, they represent hundreds of
people who bring us the good news from the war of ideas that America can
indeed nurture democratic culture in Islamic and other developing
countries without firing a shot.
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examples here show) who will shape the democratic futures of those
countries -- if those countries are to have democratic futures at all.)
Source: James Sloan Allen is the author of "Worldly Wisdom: Great Books
and the Meaning(s) of Life," to be published next year.
Many European writers had tried to understand why Arabs and Muslims
peoples hated U.S.
Read Proliferator-in-chief
• Leader
• The Guardian, Thursday 26 July 2001 10.48 BST
• Article history
By this action, the US suggests that its national security interests, narrowly
defined, and the commercial interests of its dominant biotechnology sector
should take precedence over responsible global collaboration to meet a
common threat. By rejecting the proposed inspection regime, it further,
dangerously, suggests to others that the US is not really worried about
germ-warfare controls and wants to develop its own, advanced biological
weapons.
This in turn could have a serious impact on continuing efforts to bolster the
equally important chemical weapons convention. Since Tony Blair's
government has been particularly active in promoting the BWC
enforcement protocol, it may now be expected to be particularly active in
condemning this latest piece of Bush vandalism. Jack Straw should summon
the US ambassador, a Bush appointee, to the Foreign Office and demand
an explanation.
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The US move confirms a pattern of reckless, unilateralist behavior on arms
control, as on environmental and other issues. Since taking office, Mr. Bush
has spoken in grandiose terms of the need for "new thinking" and for a
"new strategic framework". But to date, this supposed post-cold war global
security "vision" has largely amounted to trashing existing agreements
without any clear idea of what to put in their place.
Yet all this charging about in the arms control crockery shop does little or
nothing to reduce the biggest actual, as opposed to hypothetical, threat:
that posed by relatively cheap, easily produced biological and chemical
weapons and by "portable" nukes that may be obtained by transnational
terrorists. Indeed, by deflecting attention and resources, it makes it worse.
In recent days, four instances of smuggling of nuclear-related material
have come to light in Europe. This coincides with a review of Clinton era
schemes to help Russia safeguard or dispose of stockpiles. One $2.1bn
programme, to destroy military plutonium, faces cancellation. Others may
be offered with political strings attached. No wonder the black market is
booming.
The so-called "rogue states" are not the principal problem - and missile
defence is certainly no answer. The core problem is proliferation - and the
undermining of painstakingly agreed, multilateral arms control structures.
Instead of helping, Commander-in-chief Bush is fast becoming the new
proliferators-in-chief. )
Today is not Arab and Islamic peoples the only who hate America , on
the contrary , America gained new enemies in all the word , that is
reflected in many manifestations all over the world , from France to
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Korea. You can visit internet websites to see millions of pictures and
videos about these manifestations.
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Egyptian caricature
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French people against bush administration
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At last American people should know the truth, Arabic and Muslims
peoples doesn’t hate you, instead every one of us like to live with you
because of your generous .Arabic and Muslims people hate U.S
government policy.
In fact Americans are peaceful people and people of peace, hate wars
wherever they are, hate injustice and tyranny.
American people was the first people who was against bush
administration, we have many pictures about this subject.
Picture 1
Picture 2
Caricature 1
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We must recognize today that Barrack Obama have to do his best to
change this ugly picture of America in Arabs and Muslims minds. And
the question will be in the future: why they love us? And I’m sure that all
Arab and Muslim peoples will say in all honesty: we love you because
you are the bright picture of justice in the entire world.
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