Proud To Be Hated
By Irwin N. Graulich (06/29/03)
I am proud that the Muslim streets are filled with barbaric, angry rabble burning effigies of George W. Bush and calling America "The Great Satan." I am proud that Osama Bin Laden and his followers yearn to murder all 300 million Americans with the same cold-blooded terror they exhibited against 3,000 innocent people on September 11th. I am proud that virtually the entire Arab/Muslim world finds our culture, values and ideals despicable. Along the way, we have become "The Ultimate Hated Nation." Why?
What did the United States do to deserve such massive hostility? The foolish Left and The New York Times keep pointing to Middle East policy vis a vis Israel, our wealth, supporting Saddam in the 80's, backing the Saudi regime, helping the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, oil, greed, arrogance and a thousand other anti-American excuses.
History has proven that the most evil ideologies will always focus on the destruction of the morally good. Nazism, Communism and now Islamic fundamentalism, initially focused on Jews. Jew-hatred has been an early warning signal for the decent people of the world that trouble is brewing. While sick, vile belief systems usually begin with attacking the Jews, they are never satisfied with merely annihilating this one tiny group. The effort simply continues onward towards a greater obstacle. In this case, hatred and a destructive desire for the supreme moral power, America.
Initially, Judaism had the audacity to tell the world, "Thou Shalt Behave!" And now America has the audacity to enforce it. The once powerful Islamic universe is powerless and must follow the rules of this Judeo-Christian God. No wonder the vast majority of Arabs and Muslims hate us with such fervor.
In addition, Israel's incredible successes over the past 50 years and the Islamic world's thorough failures during that same time period are unbearable realities to confront. Making matters even worse, we see the total world domination of virtually every positive area by Secular Christian America (not an oxymoron), proving quite definitively that the present Muslim religious system is "fundamentally" flawed. When a religion or ideology espouses colossal greatness and is proven to be rather weak competition, the outcome for believers is quite painful.
One billion people with an incredible military history and influential past, continuously being outperformed today by 14 million Jews and moreover, forced to bow down to and be chastised by Jesus loving Christians in America like George W. Bush. That is the definition of shame and humiliation for modern Islam.
Yet, the Islamic world has chosen to deal with this situation through anger and terrorism, similar to a soft drink company blowing up all their competitor's manufacturing plants. Especially disturbing to these Islamicists is the fact that their younger generation overwhelmingly abhor Muslim values and, when exposed to our way of life, want to drink from this wonderful American lifestyle represented by the Coca-Cola generation!
Modernity has forced the Muslim world to lose all dominance and provided the West with an opportunity to develop, grow and surpass even the wealthiest oil rich countries. This is the essential reason why much of the Islamic world is rebelling against technology, innovation, television and the 21st century. They have been decimated by progress and therefore have a misguided kinship with their past.
Human beings have a natural jealousy towards people who do better, are more talented or have achieved greater successes. However, when a religion or ideological belief system is left in the dust, the jealousy turns to vicious hatred. Bin Laden is loved because he showed an American vulnerability and weakness to a flawed mindset. Saddam was cherished and thought to possess a similar talent for standing up to America, while outlasting its victorious president. Not this time. The strongest Arab army was totally vanquished in a cakewalk.
When one overweight Jew named Ariel Sharon almost single-handedly defeated the 4 dominant Arab nations in 1967 and 1973, it was certainly an embarrassment. However, when a skinny little politician with glasses named Rumsfeld and a religious Christian cowboy named Bush defeat both Afghanistan and Iraq with surprising ease, there was even more consternation and constipation among Muslims.
The demonstrations in the streets of Indonesia, Malaysia and other Islamic nations against Bush continue to be all the opposition they can muster. Amazingly, Jew hatred continues to be rampant throughout these countries even though no Jews live there and most of their citizens never saw a real, live Jew in person. The Jews have always been a lightning rod for the evil-doers of the world. Now America has become the magnet attracting those same forces . There must be a divine "charge" for this phenomenon. It has no other rational explanation.
The criticism of America by fraudulent religious leaders is astounding and reprehensible. Islamic political leadership is not much saner, realizing that success can only be achieved through terrorism or Nazi-like media propaganda. As terrorism becomes more difficult to execute, they move on to the insoluble Israeli-Palestinian issue, always linking it with responsibility and blame for America. It is quite disturbing to the 70 Muslim countries that today's "Infidels" are the masters of the world.
Instead of wondering why we are hated, Americans should be cheering. When evil hates you, like Hitler, Saddam and the former Soviet Union, you are doing something beautiful and moral. It was Bin Laden's now infamous tape that boasted he "would destroy the Jews and the Americans." My personal response to him is, "I am proud to be a double target!"
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