8/2/2019 The Myth of Hating America

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The Myth of Hating America

Its a misleading generalization and stereotype to say that showing admiration and approval for

America, a generalized word mistakenly used by the writer, Mourad Anouar, throughout his Trend ofHating America, would cause one to be an outcast within his society, especially in the Arab-Islamic

World. The tone in which The Trend of Hating America is written gives you impression that the

writers mind is absorbed bya personal experience- or other unrevealed reasons- which distracted his

attention from objectively accounting for the global, moderate views of the people- especially the

religious scholars, whom the writer mistakenly called religious clerks- throughout the Arab-Islamic

World.

While the writer lists numerous reasons uncovering the Roots of Muslim Rage, He went wrong and

confused, pretending that this rhetoric [meaning the unfavorable views toward America] is

unfounded. Among those reasons, which he gave no space for discussion, is the direct and indirect

US attack of many Islamic states and Islam. The unconditional commitment of the US administration

to provide annual support to Israel against Palestine is for the writer no reason to argue against the

American foreign policy, to say not America. Likewise, the writer thinks the Western mass media- and

importantly the US media - and its mission to attack, miscover, and misinform about Islam is but an

illusion and has no factual foundation. While the writer played fast, he lost with facts, backing up the

same rhetoric of the modern Orientalist discourse (an example of this rhetoric is the frequent

association between Jihad and terror, overlooking the broad scope and significance ofJihad in

Islam) which the media continue to broadcast, leading to mass deception among the mass.

It is this Orientalist rhetoric that has shaped the Western mind and behavior since the imperial era in

the 18th, 19th, and 20thcentury; and its the same discourse in which the imperialists and colonialists

wrote our history and painted a horrible and demon-like picture for Islam and Muslims. Imaginative

geography, fiction, texuality, travel writing, movies, cartoons, public speeches, pre-guided debates, TVshows and news media opinionated reportsetc, all are the instruments used in the Islamophobia

network and are led by many ideologists, priests, reporters, and political players all around

America.Consequently, Islamophobia industry that is manufacturing fear of Islam and Muslims- has

been accumulating fear of Islam and so planted the feeling of hatred and hostility against Islam and

Muslims. What is worse about this is that the fear of Islam has been turning into physical aggression

against anything that belongs to Islam and Muslims. Its no wonder therefore to hear news here and

there about Quran burning, insulting caricatures about the prophet of Islam (PBUH), vandalism

against mosques and Islamic centers, hijab banetc.

The writer, as I recently noted, uses America as a generalized and vague word to argue against the

ones who are more into the trendy addictive habit of hating America. Its literally deceptive to claim

that WE Moroccans have such a hate against America. And its no ironythat we hate America, but

most of us strive to live in it, for WE contrarily love America: WE love its English and interest in

fostering education, its position against corruption and human rights, its free work opportunities and

freedom of expression, its justice among all American citizensetc; but we dislike, and have the right

to disagree and positively act against the American foreign policy and undemocratic interference in

the internal affairs of several states, its Orientalism, values system, globalization, and negative

attitudes toward Islam and Muslims.

The writer, however, has a moderate opinion statement: America is not the all good, nor is it the all

evil, stated he. Yet, still, the statement in question is surrounded by numerous , foggy and

stereotypical impressions and value judgments (like the ones about America, religious clerks, and

Moroccans) that weakened its argumentative power and diminished its relevance and cohesion withthe overall thesis of the essay.