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On the heels of WC's post regarding the 1941 fatwa that was issued regarding the West's occupation of Iraq, I'm posting a link to a Smithsonian Magazine article that I found in February 2006 regarding Sayyid Qutb's awakening in regards to his hatred of the West, to further reinforce the point that this jihad is one that we had long before Bush II came to office. This was 1950's Greeley, Colorado, about as "mom, the flag, and apple pie" Norman Rockwell American as you can get.
Poet and journalist Sara Lippincott was an early visitor to the frontier outpost, and later wrote about it under her pen name, Grace Greenwood. “You’ll die of dullness in less than five hours,” another traveler had warned her about Greeley. “There is nothing there but irrigation. Your host will invite you out to see him irrigate his potato-patch...there is not a billiard-saloon in the whole camp, nor a drink of whiskey to be had for love or money.”
Yet this is the irrigated soil that developed his hatred of the West, and fed his decision to develop an ideology for the Muslim Brotherhood, and for terrorists ever since.
He seethed at the brutishness of the people around him: the way they salted their watermelon and drank their tea unsweetened and watered their lawns. He found the muscular football players appalling and despaired of finding a barber who could give a proper haircut. As for the music: “It (Jazz) is this music that the savage bushmen created to satisfy their primitive desires.”
No, in 1950, he couldn't seethe at support for Israel, American colonialism in the Middle East, oil, or any other straw man to put up. He hated us for us.
Read the whole thing here.
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Why They Really Hate Us
On the heels of WC's post regarding the 1941 fatwa that was issued regarding the West's occupation of Iraq, I'm posting a link to a Smithsonian Magazine article that I found in February 2006 regarding Sayyid Qutb's awakening in regards to his hatred of the West, to further reinforce the point that this jihad is one that we had long before Bush II came to office. This was 1950's Greeley, Colorado, about as "mom, the flag, and apple pie" Norman Rockwell American as you can get.Poet and journalist Sara Lippincott was an early visitor to the frontier outpost, and later wrote about it under her pen name, Grace Greenwood. “You’ll die of dullness in less than five hours,” another traveler had warned her about Greeley. “There is nothing there but irrigation. Your host will invite you out to see him irrigate his potato-patch...there is not a billiard-saloon in the whole camp, nor a drink of whiskey to be had for love or money.”
Yet this is the irrigated soil that developed his hatred of the West, and fed his decision to develop an ideology for the Muslim Brotherhood, and for terrorists ever since.
He seethed at the brutishness of the people around him: the way they salted their watermelon and drank their tea unsweetened and watered their lawns. He found the muscular football players appalling and despaired of finding a barber who could give a proper haircut. As for the music: “It (Jazz) is this music that the savage bushmen created to satisfy their primitive desires.”
No, in 1950, he couldn't seethe at support for Israel, American colonialism in the Middle East, oil, or any other straw man to put up. He hated us for us.
Read the whole thing here.
- Recent Essay By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The essay "Why America Is the World's Shelter" appears in the June 2012 edition of Smithsonian, recently voted the most interesting magazine in America. Excerpt:...I began receiving physical threats: “You are no longer a Muslim, you are an apostate,...
- The Two Hatreds
In the aftermath of the suicide bombing in Eilat, the kumbayista community (not to mention the Israel-haters) have spared no effort to say how “there is hatred on both sides”, hatred that needs to stop if there is to be any chance of peace. Presumably,...
- No Way. Really?
Ynet News has amazing news. Iranian schools teach hatred of Christians, Jews and the West, according to a new study. The analysis by researchers with the Center for Monitoring Peace in the Middle East found examples of anti-Western hatred and anti-Semitic...
- If Nasrallah Is More Popular, That's Their Problem
I hear all this whining about 'oh the jews made a mistake in their brusque disproportionate response' because now Nasrallah is more popular. Exsqueeze me my moronic little friends, but if we do NOTHING he becomes more popular and if we do something...
- To Beat Islamofascism We Must Also Defeat The Left
From Reliapundit, the Astute Blogger: 9/11 was perpetrated by Osama's gang of jihadomaniacs, by those who openly take credit for it - and for the reasons they avow. People who believe it was an inside job - like the Reichstag - are more frightened...