Word: satanizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rumors and wedge-driving rumors. The old man's debris ride to safety is a classic wish-fulfillment rumor, as is the story that Osama bin Laden is dying of liver cancer. Bogey rumors (derived from the bogeyman) are based on fear. Poisoned reservoirs, anthrax attacks, the visage of Satan in the World Trade Center smoke and the Klingerman virus (which supposedly arrives through the mail on a sponge in a blue envelope marked "A Gift for You from the Klingerman Foundation") all play on our fear of the worst, which, to some people, is more comforting than the unknown...
...abettors and apologists, another element is required. That element is the idea that the U.S. is not just the enemy of the Arabs or even of Muslims generally but also the enemy of God. It is an idea encouraged by the Ayatullah Khomeini, who proclaimed the U.S. "the Great Satan," spread by Islamic extremists throughout the Arab world and now given potent expression by, it would seem, the biggest player among all such militants today, Osama bin Laden...
...United States has left Iranians with an "America complex," a mixture of feelings of admiration, resentment and betrayal. But the events of Sept. 11 shocked ordinary Iranians and their leaders into new and perhaps more honest political and personal sentiments about the nation known in Iran as the "Great Satan...
...Outside the decaying former American embassy building in downtown Tehran - due to open next month as a "museum of global arrogance" - two university students waited for a bus. They eyed the ghoulish slogans painted on the wall: "America is a Great Satan" and "Iran will crush the U.S. under its foot." Sniffed one of the students, Maryam Ghasemi: "'Under our foot? Now the U.S. is lodged in our hearts...
...they should accept the regime that is being imposed upon them. Israel, a tiny polity with a magnified image, is the answer to an autocrats political predicament. Problems with public health? Israel is polluting the water supply. Homeless refugees? Israel usurps Arab lands. Restless youth? Israels democracy is a satanic influence. The deflection of so much political dissatisfaction and so many real and escalating social problems into aggression against Israel eventually reaches fanatical proportions, fueling apocalyptic scenarios of destroying the Satan, and the protector of Satanthe United States...