People I know think "the terrorists" are not human. Dehumanization is a form of propaganda (a lie for political purposes) which can lead to genocide. Indeed, I've heard the genocidal comment that we should "just nuke the whole place".
Hate is passed on purposefully and accidentally in many ways. For example, Rush Limbaugh the admitted drug addict is popular because he twists complicated reality into simple undertandable (but wrong) sound bites. Reality, however, is complicated. Iraq is a mess now because people with simple impaired judgement thought war was the answer. They acted on a fantasy "they will welcome us!" and that mistake is costing thousands, tens of thousands of human lives.
Yes, a small minority of Muslims DO have a bizzare bloodletting ceremony, yet all human beings, no matter what religion, get mad if you blow up their children.
Some vague thing like "hating our freedoms" isn't causing the rage. The seeds of hate are specific. Example: The US recently provided cluster bombs to Israel which then used our US made bombs to kill innocent civilians. Over 100,000 unexploded US bombs will keep on killing for years.
The Bush administration, by providing weapons of mass destruction to the Middle East conflict, has endangered US national security by causing a new wave of tremendous hatred towards us. This makes some foreign peoples (who are also blinded by their own propaganda) wish to strike back at innocent people here in the USA. They WILL teach their children remaining to hate the US because US weapons killed one or more of their other relatives (41,000 to 45,000 Iraqi civilians currently). Gee, if some country started a war that resulted in 40,000 dead Americans do you think we'd love them?
"Israel asked Bush around August 10th for a speedy delivery of M-26 artillery rockets (dumb bombs). It seems the order went though and they started firing them in large numbers at Lebanon a few days later (the week of Aug 14-18th)."
So, do they hate our way of life? Our music? Our nice clothes? Or do they rather much more hate the way we kill them?
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Islam, which promotes, as does Judaism, the idea that all the people in the world were offered "the word" but turned it down. The idea means that they (the culture) produces people that believe themselves justified in finding all others to be inferior.
Meanwhile, their religious laws (same with Jews) promote that they treat their own people with extremely fair policies that are a type of ethnic/religious socialism.
All that amounts to something a lot like National Socialism, or Nazism. Nazis believed that other types of people were inferior and had a plan for a "fair" society for the "proper" type of person.
This idea is nothing new, and has been going on in the mid-east for a gigantically long long time before the US existed.
Not being religious, and being extremely liberal, I've had enough of fascism based on fantastic nonsense. At least Nazis had some crap science, social Darwinism, and cool designer outfits, because the mid-east has nothing culturally that any of us would want.
In the end, I?m puzzled about how to get a mass number of people to stop believing deeply ingrained ideas, unless you kill all of the adults, or totally demoralize the people into believing that the don?t know right from wrong. I believe that a combination of this was down via the bomb in WWII.
It?s a sad complex situation.
When I was in my training in Psychiatry in USA, there was a discussion on xenophobia.
I asked a question to the professor,
"Is there any culture, race, religion, nation, etc; which is not xenophobe?"
He answered,
" It is a very good question. Come to think of it, no. None. I don't know any culture, race, religion etc, that is not xenophobe."
A month later he called me in his office and said,
" Syd, you inspired me to read more on xenophobia. In the archives of psychiatry, I came across one article by someone who has mentioned that all the world problems are due to lack of desire to understand others cultures, religions, race etc."
Then he added,
" I personally have invented a term "xenophilia" (love for foreign cultures races etc). May be some day people will advance to the level of understanding things from other cultures view points. In other words they will become xenophiles. This will change the course of history in a totally different direction."
Time passed. I travelled around the world. I found xenophobia everywhere. He (professor) was right.No culture or nation is immune to this illness (xenophobia).
Then I came to the Philippines, I noticed that the people here are not only not xenophobes, they are in fact xenophiles. They really love foreigners.
I remembered my professors comment that he doesn't know any race religion, culture, nation, etc; which is not xenophobe.
I wish he had come to the Philippines. He would have seen the true application of his invented term "xenophilia" in the Philippines.
By the way, in psychiatry, there is still no such term as xenophilia. I wish someone introduce it.
check and contact medical board of california
Is this xenophilla
SYED I. H. SHAHID, M.D., INC. Available 433 N 4th street suite 211 Montebello, CA Dr.Syed Iqbal Hussain SHAHID, SYED Iqbal shahid MD
(PRESIDENT)
SHAHID, SYED I H following business(es):
SYED I. H. SHAHID, M.D., INC. in Montebello, CA
Family Practice..Psychiatry and Neurology
(REGISTERED AGENT) MCDAY ESTATES
RODRIGO FLORES, M.D., A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
MONTEBELLO PHYSICAL THERAPY CENTER, PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
PETER ELLIOTT, M.D., INC.
Syed iqbal hussain shahid MD argued that the woman had a motive to lie because of a civil lawsuit she is planning to file against of him
What Dr Shahid's personal life got to do with xenophilia? You must be highly xenophobic to become personal.
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