JASON MILLER: Why Do We Hate Them? -- Fear and Loathing in the Occident

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By Jason Miller -- World News Trust

Islamophobia is a mental and spiritual affliction. And our Western ruling elites bear the responsibility for inflicting it upon the psyches of the masses.

Now that the Stalinist/Maoist regimes have collapsed or evolved toward capitalism and no fascist states with imperial ambitions exist (besides the United States and its few allies), the American Empire needed to find a new "enemy” to replace Stalinists and Nazis. Much of the soft power employed by the leaders of America’s “top down democracy” stems from psychological manipulation of “the mob.” Mobilization of the masses against a common enemy “threatening the very existence of the American Way” has long been a staple in the United States’ ruling elites’ ongoing push to monopolize the world’s wealth, power, and prestige.

And who better to vilify than Islamic people? Many are dark-skinned and live in developing nations, meaning their lives are inconsequential in the prevailing moral calculus of the West. The Middle East is predominately Islamic, its sands are oozing with crude oil, and it is home to Israel. From the perspective of the Empire, what better region to target than the Middle East?

And whether one believes that 9/11 was a false flag operation perpetrated by the U.S. government or the work of radical Islamic Fundamentalists, the members of the Bush Regime obviously shed their crocodile tears publicly while privately celebrating the event as their Pearl Harbor. Three thousand civilian deaths and the demolition of a powerful symbol of the Western “value” of avaricious Capitalism whipped the American public into a furor against the “evil Muslims” who “hate our freedoms.”

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[madeline_con]

1. Awesome read!

Thanks for the link. :hi:

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2. Thank you for posting.

This article really gets to the heart of the matter.

Message to Bush & his minions: You antagonize the muslim world....at your peril. There are 1.5 billion muslims, many of them doing very well. They are a force to be reckoned with, but stupid Bush doesn't realize that.

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3. Very insightful and well-researched

Wish I would have seen it sooner so I could give it a K&N.

We are hopelessly behind in learning about the Islamic culture. I shudder recalling how ill-prepared our leaders were when they started the "crusade." And still it is up to us to educate each other.