I do not think that the entire Arab world hates us. However below
is some of the things that Muslims is facing within our religion, and
nobody is taking the time to realize these things. We hate so now
we think that everyone hate like we do.
Middle East Tensions in the 1970s and 1980s
Though neither government agencies nor Arab or Muslim nongovernmental
organizations tracked incidents of bias-motivated crime in the 1970s, Arab
and Muslim activists point to the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and oil embargo as
a starting point for increased prejudice and hostility against their communities
in the United States. An Arab-American from Dearborn, Michigan described the
change in public attitudes towards Arab-Americans after 1973 in the following way:
"suddenly we were being held responsible for things we had nothing to do with and
no control over and maybe didn't even support in the first place. Activists contend
that hostility increased during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979. According to Albert
Mokhiber, former President of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC),
the oldest Arab-American civil rights organization, "Iranians were being targeted for
te crimes at that point... so were Arab-Americans, and Arabs and Iranians aren't the
same.
Arab-American activists also believe the ABSCAM scandal of 1980 heightened
negative stereotypes of Arabs. ABSCAM, short for "Arab Scam," was a federal
olitical corruption sting operation in which federal agents posed as wealthy sheiks
d offered bribes to politicians. As one Arab-American noted, after ABSCAM:
[A]ll Arabs were bad. Everybody was lumped together. You became that horrible,
hook-nosed, terrorizing murderer. You were not to be trusted. The founders of the
ADC credit the negative publicity surrounding the ABSCAM scandal as the impetus
for the group's creation.
The hijacking of TWA Flight 847 by Shiite militants on June 14, 1985 and the
hijacking of the Italian cruise liner the Achille Lauro on October 7, 1985 by the
Palstinian Liberation Organization were followed by a spate of violent crimes against
Arab and Muslims in the United States. On October 11, 1985, the regional director of
the ADC Southern California office, Alex Odeh, was killed when a bomb exploded outside
the front door of his office.The day before, Odeh had been on local television denying
PLO involvement in the hijacking. The ADC office in Washington, D.C., was firebombed
two months after Odeh's death.Two months before Odeh's murder, a bomb outside the
ADC's Boston office injured a policeman when it detonated while the officer was trying
to defuse it. In the same time period, a Houston mosque was pipebombed (causing $50,000
in damage), the windows of the Islamic Institute in Dearborn, Michigan were broken, and a mosque in Potomac, Maryland was vandalized. In 1986, the day the United States attacked Libya, five Arab students at Syracuse University were beaten while their attackers yelled anti-Arab epithets. Arab-American businesses in Dearborn, Michigan were also vandalized soon after the attack on Libya.
This is just a rundown of past events that took place here in the states,
and in the Middle East during the 1970s and 1980s. So this can really be
viewed as Do the United States hate Muslims?
This is a report that I received from a global Human Rights organization
years ago, and this thread title brought this piece to mind to show just
about the time this terrorist movement started.
