Are Americans inherently violent?
For more than five years now, it has been popular in the U.S. to ask the question “Is Islam inherently violent?” and ponder whether Muslims dream of taking over the world.
While Americans, having waken up late to the problems of Islamic terrorism, debate what has been debated thousands of times prior, the rest of the world is debating something different.
Are Americans inherently violent?
From The Guardian:
That the US tortures, routinely and systematically, while prosecuting its “war on terror” can no longer be seriously disputed. The Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project (DAA), a coalition of academics and human-rights groups, has documented the abuse or killing of 460 inmates of US military prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantánamo Bay. This, it says, is necessarily a conservative figure: many cases will remain unrecorded. The prisoners were beaten, raped, forced to abuse themselves, forced to maintain “stress positions”, and subjected to prolonged sleep deprivation and mock executions.
The U.S. is expansionist, has nukes, will torture and kill, bomb innocents, launches pre-emptive attacks on nations and is the first in line when it comes to forcing economic sanctions on nations we disagree with. The world has every reason to fear and question us.
While random Muslims commit atrocious acts for their religion or sect, the U.S. is still the world’s largest and most powerful nation. We act as one in committing random acts of violence against the world. Over the years the U.S. has shown itself to be a violent, xenophobic nation, that has little care nor knowledge of other peoples and cultures. We have been that way since we arrived on this continent.
Are Americans inherently violent? That is the question. And like how Americans have only recently started questioning the true desires of Islam, the rest of the world is now questioning the motives and beliefs of the U.S.
–WKW
December 12th, 2006 at 11:00 am
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