Why Do They Hate Us?

It was on September 11, 1683 that the conquering armies of Islam were met, held, and thrown back at the gates of Vienna. To bin Laden, the Christian west had defeated, shamed and dishonored the Muslims. This the fanatics cannot forget.

I do not know a single person, Christian or atheist who knows the importance of this date. I suppose we studied it in school but I never, ever remember discussing it.

Fanatics are always obsessed with such things and more reasonable people try to find a reasonable answer when there is none. I was once engaged in a long argument with a staff member with Borderline Personality Disorder. He did everything to destroy me and acted like a terrorist by locking my computer, lying to my staff and friends, and making life miserable.

I kept trying to understand his rationale for I thought reason would prevail and he would see the light. In this way I became as irrational as he. Finally, two colleagues helped me see that we cannot bring reason into an irrational situation.

The Muslim fanatics are irrational terrorists who suffer from Narcissistic Borderline and Paranoid Psychopathology. They cannot and will not see the truth. They are like the Mafia and cannot be expected to be reasonable.

Stalin was Paranoid. He killed at least 20 million of his own countrymen. He had thousands of his troops killed in the middle of battles with Hitler just ot show everyone he meant business.

He bombed the storehouses in Leningrad (St Petersburgh) so the people being attacked by Hitler would starve to death.

Why? he hated St Petersburg.

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Bin Laden says that America compromised Muslim honor. This is the point Bin Ladin wants to make, and we had better hear him if we?re to understand extreme Muslims.

Honor is more to be sought, and disgrace more to be avoided, than all the jewels in a king?s crown. If there were no Israel and no America, the honor/shame axis would still control the thoughts and actions of Easterners, just as gaining wealth largely controls thoughts and actions of people in the West.

For Muslims, the main defense against personal shame is blaming others. Instead of examining themselves, Muslims have learned to point outside themselves for the source of their problems. Even the papers and web sites of our friends blame the United States. We should never let that bother us for it shows their psychology not our fault. (Even when we are at fault.)They cannot admit responsibility or shame will be the result.

The Kurds have a proverb, ?No man admits his yogurt is sour."

The Turks have this saying: ?Even if guilt were made of silk, no one would wear it.?

No confession of sins is possible in a system where every one works full-time to avoid taking responsibility for the bad things in their lives. The only solution, then, is
to blame others for your problems. (Blincoe)

Ernst Renan, the father of comparative religious studies, called Islam ?the heaviest chains which have ever shackled humanity.?

We cannot reason with people with Psychopathological Personality Disorders. Their deep seated shame rejects all reason. This is another reason why President Bush should have never apologized to the Muslims.

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Henri Matisse's Le Bateau hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art for 47 days in 1961 before someone realized it was upside down. About 116,000 people had passed in front of the painting before the error was noticed.

The whole Muslim world is upside down to us.How long will it take before we see it?