why do americans think that arabs are terrorists?
80832
Most arabs are not terrorists, but most terrorists are arabs, so you can see how we'd make that mistake.
586572
While there are American people that heat or hate all Muslims, most don't.  Making that generalization is the same as saying that all Muslims are terrorists.  It implies racism at worst and ignorance at the least.
761984
The Arabs are good and deeply loyal to their principles of fanaticism.  It is very hard to crack into the people and their belief.
17411
No, of course they don't hate arab people. They just disagree on some issues. You see: Arabs don't like freedom and liberty America has (which gives them liberty to invade other countries for oil), and Americans think that's just wrong. \n\nWhen grown-ups disagree on issues they declare war on each other. So that's what America did. Hopefully when the war ends the Arab people will agree to what the Americans want, and they will love them once again.\n\nOh by the way, most of the Americans disagree with the war and they sure did a lot to stop it from happening. They walked on the streets once or twice.  They published some books calling people liars. That didn't solve the probem, and they did the right thing: they started nagging about it among themselves (preferably over a cup of coffee). \n\nBut since the Arab people can't hear them they assume that Americans all hate Arabs, which is, of course wrong. \n\nIf only they weren't this judgemental. America is made out of many people, races, and cultures. They don't all hate Arabs, they just let it seem that way.
696559
You make a very good point. It is NOT American to hate America, however certain people think it's in vogue now. The PC, Bush is Hitler, 9/11 was inside job crowd. How can a person really believe these things and continue to live here? Why is it that everyone else on the planet can be proud of their "homeland" but us?
626600
Terrorists are products of Americana's aggression.
735671
What are "Arabics?"\n\nAre you referring to Muslims, because most of them are not Arab-Americans.\n\nOr are you referring to Arab-Americans, because most of them are not Muslim.
363077
I don't hate all Arabs.  I just hate the ones who want me dead because I am an American.  I haven't personally done anything bad to anyone, yet the extremist Arabs would love for me to die.  What gives?
519646
Sir, some terrorists hate freedom. Some fight for it. What ever their objective is, any form of terrorism is plain bad as it means as the name implies - gianing ground through terror. Holland, Canada and Sweden do not help organisations such as terrorist groups in direct ways. But US does. When ever a country elects someone we do not like (like Chilie, like Nicaragua, like Cuba) we fund people to destroy that establishment and therefore denying their democratic right. We also bomb countries with leaderships that are not selling us oil. That is why Amenricans are hated by all smaaler countries. Israel - where I believe Jews do have a rightful claim to the land - we help them despite of atrocities and despite of the obvious fact that they STEAL LAND that belong to Arabs. Jews and Arabs are cousins, even according to the Bible. But to steal from one cousin to give the other...... mainly because we are bullied by Jewish lobby and we need a controlling factor in Middle East is something all US presidents will have to answer the God when their name is called to justify their actions. \n\nNow you know why we are so hated and bombed by peoples around the world. I have, for reasons of brevity, left off VietNam - where many died on both sides in the battle to stop communists from taking over. Just one question though. WHAT WERE THE COMMUNISTS TAKING OVER? Answer is IT WAS FROM FRENCH COLONIAL RULE - SOMETHING WE ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED bcoz we need to have other people exploited. No religious man with ANY rightousness shall condone imperialism - ALAS, WE THE WORLD POLICE OF FREEDOM.......... God bless America.
306013
they like USA, i am arab and i live in USA, and i love this country more than my stupid country. Some arabs hates USA because they are stupid not all of us
271685
Because the idea that they attack us from the "hatred of freedom" is silly.\n\nAt the core, the current troubles in the mid-east are an internal muslim civil war. These countries are caught between their own culture, which has a rich history, and modernizing, which comes with the risk of "westernization." (Until the seventeenth century the Islamic kingdoms were more advanced than their European counterparts.)\n\nThe attacks against the west are, in general, attacks against the source of modernization in the mid-east, and against the US in particular, the source of money for various authoritarian governments.\n\nThat does not mean we shouldn't fight terrorists and protect ourselves. Of course we should. But to understand this "war" we need to deal with the root causes - and those are all in the mid-east.\n\n("War" in quotes, because, as horrific as acts of terror have been, the current situation is nothing compared to WWI or WWII, or to the possibility of species extinction that came with the Cold War.)\n\nAdded:\nAlthough this is a minority opinion, I think the ultimate source of Arab anger against Israel is part of the internal muslim civil war. Of course the Arabs have grievances (as do the Israelis), but external Arab governments have done nothing but enflame the situation for 50 years. There are many cases of tragic explusions of peoples (Greeks from Western Turkey after WWI, the India-Pakistan split, Germans from Prussia and Poland after WWII), but in these cases other countries have attempted to settle the newcomers and establish new communities. This, tragically, has never happened for the Palestianians.\n\nIn my opinion, the Palestians have been cruely used by external Arab governments as a way to distract their own people from internal problems due to corruption and poor government.
1024560
People say "because they cant be trusted with them!", which is ridiculous. I dont expect they think we can be trusted with them either! \n\nWe are not the world police!\n\nI am sick and tired of Americas "DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO" attitude. Its incredibly patronising and shows a blatent lack of respect for other nations.....which, by the way, is exactly what spurs the terrorists on in the first place.
19133
Most Muslims are not terrorists, and most terrorists aren't Muslims. Americans react more to Islamic terrorism because it comes from an outside source, whereas domestic terrorism from militia groups or urban gangs doesn't trigger a sense of national unity or a 'fight response.'
1075746
Well, it's really not "Arabs" that are causing any "situation" now. Some people assume the terrorists who were responsible for the 9-11 attacks, etc. are Muslims, but that too is overly broad. Most Muslims are peaceful, and only a minority are “fundamentalists” who want to destroy the west. We should remember that the country with the largest Muslim population is Indonesia, and the inhabitants of that country are not “Arabs.” Another large Muslim country is Iran, where the population is Persian, not Arab, and they speak Farsi, not Arabic
1187331
No they aren't. Actually most of them think we are terrorist!
442088
I don't think they fear Arabs or Muslims, terrorism however, whatever the reason is more the issue.  In the UK we have suffered terrorism at the hands of the Irish Catholics, for years so now we are used to it and therefore it is not so scary anymore.\nI have lived in Syria and Yemen, the locals are just normal decent peaceful people like anywhere else.
585514
I would suggest that average Americans don't consider the 'average' Arab as an enemy but rather that there are a proportion of Arabs that seem hell bent (no theology intended) on destroying any civil link between the societies.  I also think that there is an ignorance amongst many Americans re the difference between an Arab and a Muslim.\n\nIt is difficult to criticise this as a large amount of the Arab/Muslim media do seem to be very keen to show large and very aggressive protests against something as benal as a cartoon.  Also crowds dancing and cheering around the mulilated remains of murdered western contractors hardly gives a good impression and will have a disproportionate effect from the numbers actually involved.\n\nI really feel for the moderate Arabs/Islamists who genuinely believe that Islam/the nature of the Arab world has been corrupted; I also don't agree with many of the Western countries dealings with the Middle East at the moment.\n\nBridging the gap will be difficult as there will always be groups (probably on both 'sides') intent on fueling any resentment.  I do think that the Islamic hierarchy (as well as the Arab media) could do a lot to take a more moderate view of world events and be quicker to condem terrorism.  \n\nThe example of the reaction to the Dutch cartoons noted above shocked so many people that I know - not because of the offence but the amazing over-reaction and double standards being shown (bearing in mind the lack of sensitivity to the Jews shown in the Arab media).  Why would people kill because of this sort of trivia? - if your religion and faith is strong then accept that sometimes others will criticise or even lampoon it ... I don't see book stores on fire due to the Da Vinci Code or any newspaper staff being killed due to the regular cartoons mocking religeous personalities in the UK.\n\nThe central theme is that folks can't understand what drives the fundamentaists to the sort of extremes we see every day ... even anger doesn't seem to explain it.\n\nPeace (hopefuly) out.