Why Do They Hate Us?

Because they only see us feeding the leaders of their own corrupt Islamo fascist states. Then their own corrupt Islamo fascist leaders blame us for Israel to their own people. It's that simple, and that's just for our "allies" in the Middle East.

Exhibit A, a "friendly" Islamo fascist state like Egypt:

EGYPTIANS were hardly astonished when a ferry packed with more than 1,400 passengers sank in the Red Sea. Anyone who has struggled to navigate daily life here knows safety standards are virtually nonexistent, and the value of human life is often overlooked by a government widely considered to be driven by corruption and favoritism.

But the loss of the ferry, Al Salam, on Feb. 3, and the government's delayed and limited response to the emergency, have implications that extend beyond the scope of the disaster, and beyond the borders of Egypt.

The calamity speaks directly to the slow burn that consumes many Egyptians — and many other Arabs — who live under governments that rule with virtual impunity no matter how bumbling, incompetent or abusive they are. Similar frustrations, if over other issues, play out around the region, in places like Syria, Jordan, Yemen, and among the Palestinians.

It is difficult to draw an absolute link between the ferry disaster and the violence that exploded across much of the Muslim world last week in response to Danish cartoons that had lampooned the Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims feel it was blasphemous to draw the Prophet at all, let alone in a mocking manner.

But in the coincidence of the two events, there is a clue to a dynamic that has played out in this region for many years: Leaders often call attention to external enemies — most often the Israelis — as a device to allow their own subjects to blow off steam. The anger itself is almost always home grown...

...While the West speaks of democracy and freedom, Muslims here tend to speak of justice. There is widespread feeling that the region's governments deny their people justice, and this feeling has been instrumental in the increased support for Islamists throughout the Middle East, whether the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, or Hamas among the Palestinians.

"It has reached to the point where Egyptians do not feel entitled to anything, and all they want is justice," said Ibrahim Aslan, a leading Egyptian writer. "Across history, in literature, Egyptian peasants asked for justice, not for freedom or democracy. Just justice. Social justice."

Islamists promise not just piety, but an end to corruption and misrule. That challenge helps explain the eagerness of established governments to pursue the conflict over the Danish cartoons — to increase their own credibility on religious issues and resist the Islamists' rising popularity.

Corruption has no monopoly on the Middle East, although it seems that Dear Leader has been taking lessons here as well.

In certain Middle Eastern governments critique of the local strong man can lead you to the slammer. Now, if you work for the Feds, and your boss is Neo/TheoCon, it can get you charged with sedition to write a letter to your local newspaper Editor dissing Dear Leader over Katrina. Welcome to the Third World.

Now you know why they hate us. It's not our Democracy. It's our lack of it. It's not our Justice. It's the injustice of the commissars we appoint. It's the same reason we all complain about martinet politicians and beaureaucrats.

People tend not to like you if you say one thing and do another.