Ibrahim wrote:Really trendy these days. One argument as to why:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio ... 49534.html
The roots of global anti-Americanism
Revelations of Korean rapper Psy's anti-American past are emblematic of a global resentment caused by US militarism.
The incongruity of it seemed to be nothing short of a betrayal. After lightheartedly dancing his way into the hearts of Americans and gaining entrance to the inner sanctum of their cherished cult of celebrity, the Korean rapper, Psy, whose song "Gangam Style" became the most watched video in the history of YouTube and made him a pop culture sensation, has been revealed to have a politically active past which places him directly at odds with the American mainstream worldview and which violently decries its most basic articles of faith.
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While the stories of American brutality in places such as Korea are unknown or ignored by the overwhelming majority of Americans, they are less quickly forgotten by the citizens of the countries which have suffered and continue to suffer horrific atrocities at the hands of US troops.
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However, a 2012 Pew Research poll showed the least favourable perceptions of the US today to be in countries within the Arab and Muslim worlds; negative views which are thought to have briefly abated upon the election of Barack Obama but which can now be seen to have returned to their historic lows during the George W Bush era.
Among countries polled the bottom echelon are exclusively countries with Muslim majority populations. Even those such as Turkey and Jordan whose governments are traditionally allied with the US showed overwhelmingly negative attitudes towards America, with the latter polling at a mere 12 per cent favourability.
Tellingly, Jordan also happens to be home to a massive population of refugees from the American invasion of Iraq, the civilian victims of a war who have been forgotten by Americans but continue to live on in desperation and misery in many countries scattered throughout the region.
While an incredible amount of research has gone into formulating complex theories to explain this widespread disdain for the US, Occam's Razor, the logical principle that the simplest explanation is most often the correct one suggests that the American militarism which once ravaged Korea and which has now been set upon the Muslim world is the cause of this growing antipathy.
Pakistan, which polled at roughly 9 per cent favourability towards the US in a 2010 BBC World poll, once had a vibrantly pro-American polity where Jacquelyn Kennedy was mobbed in the streets with flower garlands by thousands of admirers during a state visit and where American popular culture was once widely revered and emulated.
For Americans who are commonly feted with reassurances of their country's benevolent role in the world, it may come as a surprise that half of all refugees on the planet today are running from American wars.
The wanton, industrial-scale violence, which the US has unleashed upon the civilians of countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia has naturally generated a tidal wave of negative feeling within these countries which many Americans utterly fail to grasp.
Episodes such as the gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family by US troops are emblematic of the fundamental sadism of American policy towards the region. However, in a type of bizarre dark comedy, popularly elected American leaders continue to question the lack of gratitude among the populations upon whom they have let loose this violence.
What this appears to represent is a type of brazen ignorance and egotism which has come to represent mainstream government policy; the type of myopia under which a country can launch a full-scale war, invasion and occupation of another sovereign nation under entirely false pretences, kill hundreds of thousands in the process and create millions of refugees and still at the end sincerely ask the question "Why they do hate us?".
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A more complete list of atrocities committed by American troops in Korea, the Middle East, and wherewhere are in the original article, as well as links to supporting documentation.
Thank You Very Much for your post, Ibrahim.
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later in the post ......
From the radio today...... "My father died fighting to save Korea...... and Psy would be a lot thinner
otherwise.....
And Psy himself has disavowed his words........
Anti-American performances and subsequent apology
In 2002, PSY participated in an anti-American concert after a U.S. military convoy struck and killed two 14-year-old South Korean schoolgirls during the Yangju highway incident. The soldiers involved in the incident were acquitted by U.S. military courts,[78] which fueled a significant amount of anti-American sentiment in South Korea. During his performance, PSY lifted up a model of an M2 Bradley IFV and smashed it against the stage.[79][80]
In 2004, the South Korean translator and Christian missionary Kim Sun-il was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq after the South Korean government refused to reconsider sending its armed forces to support the Iraq War. Although initial protests were only directed towards the South Korean government and towards extremists in Iraq, anti-U.S. military protesters decided to seize the moment to trigger a much larger wave of anti-Americanism. During a concert, PSY admonished the Iraqi kidnappers, condemned South Korea's former president Roh Mu-hyun, and also sang along to lyrics of the song "Dear American" by South Korean rock band N.EX.T, who composed it to condemn the United States and its military for its role in the Iraq war.[81] Some of the anti-American lyrics sung by PSY included the following verses: "Kill those genuflecting Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives and those who ordered them to torture," and "Kill [the Yankees'] daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers / Kill them all slowly and painfully."[82][83] Although PSY's actions did not receive any significant international media coverage at that time, this changed after the media reported about it in early December 2012. On December 7, 2012, PSY issued an apology directed towards members of the U.S. military and to the American people for his "inflammatory and inappropriate" language, and expressed hope that the American public will accept his apology.[84]
In the incident that provoked Psy to sing the disgusting song, note who killed the Korean missionary........
Iraqis killed the Korean missionary........... Probably Jihadi Muslims........
Not Americans.........
Wonder why Murtaza Hussain the author of this biased piece of toxic waste
neglected to mention that fact
Just as he neglected to mention that the Korean War was a UN effort as well an American one........
And that it saved the South Koreans from the horrors that the North Koreans suffer from living under the rule of the amazingly evil Kim Il family.........
A place so bad that people try to escape from it to China!!!
So bad that nubile North Korean girls are willing to marry ancient Chinese farmers and dread what will happen to them and their unborn children if they get caught & sent back to the Cold Hell Called North Korea.........
A place so Orwellian that Face Crime actually exists........
Dangerous not to publicly mourn hard enough when one of the Kim Ill Devils dies and goes back to Hell TOS
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I suspect that if Murtaza Hussain had been born a woman
in North Korea, he too would be thinner but still be a biased jerk due the brainwashing the Norks do...
I have South Korean friends..... Bad things happen in wars........ And should be punished......... Sometimes aren't...... That is wrong..... Should be compensated if can....
But regarding the lack of American popularity in the various Muslim countries Murtaza Hussain cites, I suspect the feeling may be somewhat mutual post 911.
And IMVHO South Korean is a much better place than it would have been if the North Koreans had won.......
IMVHO a better place than most or all of the Muslim lands that Murtaza Hussain cited.........
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*If Murtaza Hussain had been born a woman in some of the places whose opinion he values so much, he might be dead of other causes... honor killing, stoning etc..
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