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Shane McTague

Mr. Muntz

Contemporary World Problems

24 April, 2017

Why Do They Hate Us?

For the common people to insist that all terrorists are insane is just not true. This shows

the true misconception. It is the channeling of a deep anger towards the west. We embody and

they hate it, we have wealth and they are jealous. This cannot simply be the answer because there

are gobs of people in the world that dont, turn planes into bombs, or blow themselves up to

kill thousands of civilians. The answer to Why do they hate us? has to be more complex and

contain components stronger than envy and hatred. Osama bin Ladens answer to this question is

religion and he struck up a Holy War between his Islamic followers and the entirety of the

West and its ways. Bin Laden is not the first to claim religion as their rallying cry to kill scores

of people. The words, "thug," "zealot" and "assassin" all come from ancient terror cults--Hindu,

Jewish and Muslim, respectively--that believed they were doing the work of God. Some of the

most famous people of terror are outsiders who twist morality above mankinds and commit

acts of terror like the Unabomber. Claiming groups like Al Qaeda or Isis are anomalies is just

wrong. These groups even find backing in the Arabic press, "September 11 was not mindless

terrorism for terrorism's sake. It was reaction and revenge, even retribution." People everywhere

seem to agree with bin Ladens slanted view of reality. Islam is far from the only religion to

harbor extremists like it has. In the eleventh century the Crusades and Turkish expansion in the

fifteenth. The surge of Islamic fundamentalism is vicious in Iran, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan.

The anti-Americanism is very prevalent, in the land of suicide bombers, flag-burners and fiery
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mullahs. We continuously strike Afghanistan with airstrikes, it is an interesting footnote,

unfortunately a footnote, that there has never been a single Afghanny tied to a terrorist attack

against the United States of America. Although, Afghanistan has become the playing field for an

Arab army in war against America. This is very interesting because in the 1950s and 60s United

States and Arabs were on relatively good terms. To quote Egypts most notably journalist, The

whole picture of the United States... was a glamorous one. Britain and France were fading, hated

empires. The Soviet Union was 5,000 miles away and the ideology of communism was anathema

to the Muslim religion. To truly understand the reasoning behind anti-American hate you have

to delve much deeper than the belief all terrorists are, insane.