Muslims do not hate our values. They hate our policies.
Reader comment on item: [Alastair Crooke's Conflict Forum and] Sharing Jokes with Hamas

Submitted by Pat (United States), Apr 20, 2005 at 12:11

Mr. Crooke said that Muslims hate our policies, not our values. Well, we have seen in this country what can come from Muslims who hate our policies. It's not negotiations. It's not an attempt to find common ground. It's a surprise attack that could easily have killed more than 50,000 people in lower Manhattan. And that was in 1993. Nice to know that that's a "distinctly less nasty sophisticated, asymmetrical, broad-based and irregular insurgency". Mr. Crooke can use whatever terms he wants. Whether they're in Hamas, Muslim Brethren, Hezbollah or al Qaeda, they're still terrorists.

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