Is the attack on the World Trade Center based on Muslim hatred of America?
SHEIK ABDULLAH: I don’t want for our American friends to forget that this ugly attack in New York targeted civilians from all races and religions. The ugly terror which hit those buildings in fact hit the efforts toward cooperation between different nations and religions. Those who were in those buildings were not Americans only and were not Christians only. There were Muslims, Jews and Buddhists among them. Therefore, we in Palestine can understand the anger in the American street. We understand it very well, because our people have suffered from this kind of destruction by the Israeli military machine, which to our sorrow is made in America. We feel the pain of the American mothers. We are angry exactly as they are angry against this kind of terror, although we Palestinians did not find many other people who got angry while we were suffering from this destruction. TIME: Why do Muslims hate America? SHEIK ABDULLAH: There is a misunderstanding. Muslims and Arabs do not hate America or
