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If USA is hated so much around the world than why there are long ques outside US embassies of people willing to go their?

Just look at Pakistan. There are demonstrations against USA and people burn their flags but then there are people standing in long ques and waiting for hours just to get the visa.

Strange isn't it.

It's not the US, but US policies that are in effect with relation to Muslims that most people object to. Most ordinary Muslims find much to like and respect about the US but who wants to accept or even respect US policies as they relate to Muslims or even Islam, who wants ot accept that kinds of attitudes presented in the US media about Islam and Muslims?
 
Is someone also looking at the other side of the picture? I don't think the Arabs are topping any popularity charts in the USA either!

Agreed that the USA needs to work to change their perceptions but the Middle Easterns are not inanimate objects too. They can surely do their bit to change their own perceptions all over the world. Apologizing to all the places they invaded would be a start.
 
Research explores what 1.3 billion Muslims think
Mon Apr 7, 2008 10:44am EDT
By Luke Baker

LONDON (Reuters) - In the years since the September 11 attacks on the United States, much has been said about the Muslim world, but little, it is argued, has been gathered on what Muslims truly think of the West.

Now Gallup, the global polling group, has conducted research in 35 Muslim countries, interviewing more than 50,000 people over a six-year period, to come up with what it is calling the first comprehensive survey of Muslim world opinion.

The results, published in a book called "Who Speaks for Islam? What a billion Muslims really think", provide often surprising clues as to how Muslims perceive the West and how misunderstanding on both sides -- often perpetuated by politicians and the media -- can fuel suspicion and conflict.

"The conflict between Muslims and Western communities is far from inevitable," co-author Dalia Mogahed said on Monday, laying out one of the fundamental conclusions she and John Esposito, a professor at Georgetown University, drew from the reams of data.

"It is more about policy than principles... Despite widespread anti-American and anti-British sentiment, Muslims around the world said they in fact admired much of what the West holds dear", including freedom of speech, democracy, technological progress and access to knowledge.

"Muslims do not see the West as monolithic -- their perception of different nations falls along policy, not cultural or religious lines," she said.

The U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, where it is closely backed by Britain, have done much to color the perception of the two in the Muslim world, where they are widely regarded "unfavorably" and described as "aggressive".

Yet both Britain and the United States are at the same time held up by many Muslims as the best representatives of what is most admired about the West -- the freedom of its citizens.

"MISUNDERSTANDING ISLAM"

While admiring Western values, many Muslims feel they are not respected by the West and that the values the West espouses, such as democracy, are only given lip service when it comes to applying them in the Muslim world.

A recent example was the 2006 election in the Palestinian territories, which the Islamist movement Hamas won in a free and fair poll. The United States and Israel have since done much to ignore the result and try to push Hamas out of office.

"More than 65 percent of Egyptians, Jordanians and Iranians believe that the United States will not allow people in their region to fashion their own political future the way they see fit without direct U.S. influence," Mogahed said.

"When we asked Muslims around the world what the West can do to improve relations with the Muslim world, the most frequent responses were for the West to demonstrate more respect for Islam and to regard Muslims as equals, not as inferior."


U.S. surveys show that Americans do in fact have a low opinion of Muslims, with only 34 percent of those polled by Gallup saying they had no prejudice towards Muslims and 19 percent saying they had a "great deal" of prejudice.

When the authors looked at where opinions of the West were lowest in the Muslim world, it tended to correlate with where conflicts were going on -- nations bordering Iraq or Israel and the Palestinian territories were more negative in their views.

The most positive Muslim nations were those in sub-Saharan Africa, especially Sierra Leone, where U.S. and British aid have done much to improve opinion after years of conflict.

A factor overlaying each side's view of the other has been media coverage. Mogahed said media-content analysis showed the majority of U.S. TV news coverage was "sharply negative" of Islam, whereas when Christianity was discussed on Muslim TV stations, the coverage was flat -- neither good nor bad.

(Editing by Paul Casciato)
 
Really what it all is about is the fact America is controlled by the international bankers like most everywhere else. The people are mislead by the controlled media. Should some source of media like a TV station try to let some truth out or not play by the rules they are shut down by regulations now in place to control this so called "Free Country" LOL. I know this by experience when working with citizens investigating the Oklahoma City Bombing. A local channel here in Oklahoma City was sold?... They had hired a private investigator to look into some of the facts ignored by law enforcement, which in turn made the goverment look bad. I know this from being on the front line of the imformation war concerning some well known facts ignored by the goverment.

So now you all know why most Americans are so ignorant about the world at large. I find it difficult dealing with the people here who have been brained washed by the controlled media and our educational system. Should I have the chance to engage the misinformed about events or my experiences they always want to use my race as the reason I see things the way I do.

I grow tired of trying to enlighten the ignorant and plain stupid people here in America! Often I'm called Un-American. LOL.

:guns:. i am tired of the sourpuss in this country with the conspiracy theory who can never back anything up, blaming "government control" over the media.

how's this. why hasn't the gov't censored you any of the other conspiracy nuts blogging on the internet.

come on. give us your url
 
It's not the US, but US policies that are in effect with relation to Muslims that most people object to. Most ordinary Muslims find much to like and respect about the US but who wants to accept or even respect US policies as they relate to Muslims or even Islam, who wants ot accept that kinds of attitudes presented in the US media about Islam and Muslims?

Exactly my point. Its is the US policies that are not liked by the Muslims not the US.

US policies are formed keeping in view their own national interests and in most cases US is involved in muslim countries where unrest has increased instead of going down. Instead of bringing stability US actions have created the opposite. USA's unrealistic support to Israel against Palestinians is also a major factor for being disliked. This is the reason US is disliked in muslim countries.
 
what so many muslims evidently don't understand is that us national interests are accidentally aligned against countries that are accidentally muslim. even when the cia was overthrowing the shah in iran, our goal was to preserve bretton woods by ensuring a steady oil supply, and also maintaining preexisting alliances -not taking out a leader because he was a practicing muslim. our actions have always been consistent with achieving our NATIONAL interests and, usually, the interests of other oil-importing nations. (i and many americans don't support overthrowing a dem-elected gov't for any reason, fyi. the cia is universally-despised). same with israel, egypt, and the suez canal. it is a coincidence that by aiming at the nexus of global strategy the us also aims at islam -or so goes the misinterpretation.

god bless church splits. as if there wasn't enough division in the world.

another misinterpretation: the us is happy to bear this burden alone. if only our "allies" hadn't dripped into socialism since wwii! there is no universal healthcare or social safety network in the usa like there is in europe, or indeed in SA or other places. through limited choice of our own (ie. supporting embargoes of japan in the 1930s), the u.s. began a sequence in history that presented us with a lot of black and white decisions which, believe it or not, involved more nations than just muslim ones.

further, i wonder how many muslims are aware of the behemoth green revolution currently going on in this country. the goals are so intertwined with national security and environmentalism its hard to tell where one begins and the other ends. our national will, believe me, is to extricate ourselves from the "holy lands" ASAP. to do this we must once again lead the prosperity-minded in an alternative green trade system.

read the line items of the stimulus bill. we are going to pour billions into nascient green industries.
 
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Your stimulus bill seems like a joke to be honest.

I doubt it's going to lift anything.
 
Its not only Middle East, many European countries dont like Americans.

Oh the mistake I made carrying my US passport in my hand when travelling to Europe.

An advise to US citizens on this forum, hide your US passport in your handbag so no one can see you're from America and try to make up an exotic non-american accent.
 
Its not only Middle East, many European countries dont like Americans.

Oh the mistake I made carrying my US passport in my hand when travelling to Europe.

An advise to US citizens on this forum, hide your US passport in your handbag so no one can see you're from America and try to make up an exotic non-american accent.

Did you remember to use your deodorant :whistle:? Just kidding :)

I've been all around the world (I think over 40 countries), never had a problem. May be they only hate American men ;)
 
Well when I visited Europe, people in the airport would ask me so many questions like why did you chose to live in America and how do they treat your kind of people (Muslims) over there.

They had a bad impression of America because of the war. They thought I was getting beaten up by Americans that's why I came to Europe.

It depends where you go, if you go to France they dont like Americans at all...if you go to England they welcome Americans. :usflag:

You have to know how to deal with the French. They're like the Baguette(french bread) hard on the outside but soft inside.
 
Former president of Pakistan General Pervez Musharaffsaid: "Today we are the poorest, the most illiterate, the most backward, the most unhealthy, the most un-enlightened, the most deprived, and the weakest of all the human race"


Out of the said 1000,000,000+ population, Muslims have only been able to produce nine Nobel laureates. (Eight, considering the beards declared Dr. Abdus Salam an apostate)

Leave out the silly Peace prizes and literature and you barely have 3 Muslims. Three?

Yes, you can literally count them on your fingers.

There's no running away from the fact that the so-called 'Muslim world' is inept, impoverished, and lagging behind on all fronts of human achievement.

They are easily the biggest waste of human capital. The biggest failure to apply any intellect. The most bitter enemies of reason.

In short, the "Muslim World" is the biggest failure in this century in achieving ANYTHING credible. Common sense indicates it. Statistics prove it. There's no room for doubt here.

This humiliating failure is precisely what the Islamists try so hard to hide with their meaningless rants and quest for a 'jihad' against an imaginary global conspiracy involving every 'infidel' on Earth.

They dream of a day when the world is "ruled" by an imaginary pan-world Islamic 'caliphate' that will somehow be magically established by a fantastic 'Islamic revolution' which will dethrone the "west" once and for all. (Yes. Mildly entertaining stuff)

Today, the Islamist answer to any question is "Jews! Americans! Western Propaganda!" .

They are blind to reason, incapable of debate, unopen to discussion or any criticism. They prefer to simply 'silence' all dissent, because they know very well that they cannot answer some very serious questions. It's much easier to declare everyone who questions them as 'apostate'.

Their followers are brainwashed with the simple proclamation of Islam's "supremacy" over the 'West'.

They flood the internet with websites proclaiming this unsubstantiated claim. But the fact remains that every last pixel on their monitor is the result of a 'western' innovation.

The AK-47 that Osama proudly displays is a 'Western' invention. The chemical formula of RDX that they use in their bombs is the culmination of 'Western' research.

Today the Qur'an is printed in printing presses designed in the west, and can be found online using Search Engines algorithms written in the "the West".

The fabrics that Hamas terrorists wear on their forehead were formulated in "the west" and the shirts on their backs were made in textile factories, with machines invented in "the West".

The Satellite phones they use for communication is again a 'western' technology, implemented by satellites that 'the west' launched into space, in rockets designed and built by 'the west', using advanced Computers made by 'the west'.

The Arab world hailed the testing of the "Islamic Bomb" when Pakistan acquired Nuclear weapons, but even the most basic Nuclear Fission reaction and reactor had first been experimented in laboratories in 'the West'.

The world's best Universities, the Best Hospitals, the biggest companies, largest factories.. all are in 'the west'.

While the youth in the Muslim countries are unable to string alphabets together thanks to their antiquated 'madrassa education', 'the west' has advanced in leaps and bounds.

In a span of two hundred years, they have gone from inventing the Steam Engine to putting a "Western" man on the moon to building space stations. They've gone from establishing telegraph posts to inventing the Internet.

WE have failed

Are Muslims today backward? - LI Islamic Forum
 
america is hated because they should not be sticking there heads in other nations business. And other reason i can think of why they are in the middle east is because the saudi (royals) paid them off with oil they are safe gaurding there wealth for the saudis ! If the saudis say no we dont need your protection then usa will head back home with there tail between there legs because the other muslim nations will demand they withdraw from the gulf !
but that wont happen because all the time the corrupt saudi royals are in power the amrecians aren't goin no where period ! and plus they support israel in killing muslims !:tsk:
 
why the Americans are hated?
More or less 'coz of Israel and support for dictators.
 
American are hated every where. During afghan Russia war Pakistan and American was directly involved in the war but still Russia never attack Pakistani borders. Now American call Pakistan their friend in so called war on terror and on the other hand attacks Pakistani borders(instated of helping them).
Americans never respect friends instated they stab knife behind their back.History speak for its self some examples are Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran were first friends of western world (after completing US dirty work they are now US enemies) and now Pakistan will be next.
 
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