Islamic Crusades 5: Why did they hate us in 1783?

I believe it is not fair to Quote only a phrase in the beginning of the paragraph and connect it to another phrase at the end of it .. and leave all the story in between this is manipulation and creates false meaning .. Brother your quotation of Quran and interpretation is wrong. The reference u have given is from the chapter Al-Anfal which means Bonus referred to spoils of War. ......

Why did they hate us in 1783? - VERY good question!

The USA bombed the crap out of Vietnam for years, no vietnamese these days are cutting american heads off, hijacking or truck bombing us.

@monkeyman1140 Agreed there, and certainly Japan has megatons worth of grudge to bear against us and yet they don't.

Not too many people stop and consider that maybe 9/11 wasn't in fact perpetrated by Islamic radicals, surprising considering that all of the people involved were Saudi (our oil partners) and trained in the US.

@dgh1973

Well, yes, we are 'friends' with the Saudi government and the oil oligarchs there, but certainly the civilian population (and, of course, religious radicalists) despise us having military bases in their country.

And even though what the US did to Japan was horrific, they, unfortunately, were the ones who attacked first.

There are many other reasons too, but I need not mention them.

Yes, look to history for your answers, but you neglect to look further back still.

Our parent nation, Great Britain - along with just about every other European nation - started wars for religious territory 600 years BEFORE the events YOU seem to pick as a convenient starting point.

Maybe you've heard of those wars? They were called the Crusades.

Actually the crusades were done in response to muslim invasions of christian held territories.

@monkeyman1140 Territories which were essentially in their own back yard... lands which had been fought over for centuries before then anyhow.

Point being 1783 was not the start of the whole "problem".

The fact that the pirates were Muslim does not mean their motives were the same as the motives of terrorists today.

Pirates love doubloons and all that jazz, regardless of race and religion. The slave trade was probably good money back then. That they were Muslim had nothing to do with attacking our ships.

A subset of pirates at that time happened to be Muslim. That doesn't mean the cause of their attacks was their religious beliefs. The cause of their attacks was that they were pirates.

Are you claiming that piracy on the high seas in 1783 was in fact an early example of Muslims 'hating your freedoms'?