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Yuram writes perspectives on Islam, social justice, economics and politics from the viewpoint of an American convert to Shia Islam, focusing on the deleterious role played by the U.S. in the Middle East and elsewhere. A dissenting voice from the “Belly of the
Beast”, he lives in Denver, Colorado and can be reached at yuram@sahafa.com.
It’s the Foreign Policy, Stupid
11 April, 2008
“Why do they hate us?” The question simultaneously captures the ignorance of the average American as to their government’s use of hard-earned tax dollars, and an unshakable faith in American innocence and purity of motives. After all, as President Truman declared in 1947 with unabashed idealism "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."[i] So how indeed could they hate us? (More)