Re: Why do they hate us?
1) we have survived and will continue to survive in this century without needing to separate state and church...yeah secularism is a weakness in many contexts..
2) we have a culture and value system strong enuff to make others assimilate into it, rather than the other way round
3) it hasnt been long (a couple of centuries, i am no hist student)....crusades still run deep in memory for some....we are the only religion other than christianity represented by West which has been colonial in the past.
is that more than enuff?