re:Iraq excuse for Zionist ethnic cleansing of Eretz Israel

["M. Junaid Alam" <redjaguar@xxxxxxxxx>]

"2) the reaction from the approximately one billion Muslims of the world."

Saved by U.S., Kuwait Now Shows Mixed Feelings
By CRAIG S. SMITH


UWAIT, Oct. 11 - Muhammad al-Mulaifi, head of the information department at
Kuwait's Ministry of Islamic Affairs, tried momentarily to suppress a smile,
then broke into a broad grin when asked if he supported the terrorist
attacks on the United States last year.

"I would be lying if said I wasn't happy about the attack," he said, sitting
on the floor of his air-conditioned home office, a carpeted, cushioned oasis
amid the harsh heat of this small, dry country. Mr. Mulaifi said that many
Kuwaitis were delighted about what had happened to the United States and
that he had attended parties held in celebration.

"Only then did we see America suffer for a few seconds what Muslims have
been suffering for a long time," he said.

His view is not an uncommon one among Muslims in this part of the world, but
it is surprising coming from someone whose country the United States rescued
from Iraqi domination just over 11 years ago.

And although Mr. Mulaifi may not be in the majority on this issue, his
opinions do represent the extreme end of an anti-American sentiment that is
spreading among Kuwait's 800,000 people.

Forty-year-old Talal al-Amer, who calls the faithful to prayer at the Anas
Din Manik Mosque in a quiet middle-class neighborhood of villas and palm
trees, said he suffered "double vision" when looking at the United States.
"As a Kuwaiti, I am happy with America's presence here," he said, "but as a
Muslim, I don't like it."

That ambivalence is being fed by the growing fundamentalist movement, which
bridles at the American presence here, and by anger over the treatment of
Palestinians by Israel, which many Muslims consider an American puppet.



[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/12/international/middleeast/12KUWA.html]