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...metropolitan Chicago area after the incident as part of her research. According to Cainkar’s findings, “the anti-Muslim social climate had been there” since before 9/11, with the attacks just providing an open forum for the “defensive hate crimes.” She evaluates the different responses from the Muslim community, whether through increasing religiosity, strengthening of bonds between different Muslim communities or segregating from non-citizens. The growth in “non-quantifiable hate crimes” has, however, affected the environment for the better in that...
...hate these communication people that suck up, because they're not helping anyone get anything accomplished. If you tell a CEO they're God, and they're not, you're doing them more damage...
America is down on itself. That's the thesis of veteran political reporter Dick Meyer's book Why We Hate Us, which charts the ways in which modern Americans have become disillusioned with their government, culture and society. It's easy to dismiss Meyer as a malcontent lamenting a lost time. But in the wake of an economic downturn caused by greed and selfishness, Meyer's 2008 writing looks positively prescient. TIME talked with the author about how his book, due to be re-released in paperback on Sept. 22, might have changed in light of two enormous events...
...seen criticism that argues the title of your book is almost unpatriotic. Why'd you use such a provocative title? The title actually came partly from a spin-off of a famous cover of Newsweek that ran after 9/11, which was "Why They Hate Us." The title was a little bit of a play on that, to get at the idea that Americans are down on almost all aspects of American public culture. It's not that Americans are down on themselves or on the idea of America or patriotism. What they are down on are politics and banks...
...bombers, are suddenly too pinned down to give anything but a trickle of support. Mullah Omar and the other members of the so-called Quetta Shura, or military council, have stayed on the sidelines for fear of losing their covert support from the Pakistani military and the ISI, who hate Karzai and his northern allies and want to see the Taliban back in power and the NATO forces gone from Afghanistan...