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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032401715.html
America, the Global Target
(Washington Post) Jim Hoagland - In radical Islamic propaganda, the U.S. has graduated from being a mere Great Satan to being depicted as a global monster responsible for virtually every crime and failing since the dawn of modern history. Meet the new Jews: the Americans. This new virulent anti-Americanism competes with historical anti-Semitism as a single explanation for the failures and delusions of entire nations. In Turkish and Egyptian movie houses, overflow crowds watch depictions of Americans routinely raping, killing, firebombing mosques, and torturing innocents. It flows through the fanatical statements of bin Laden and others that conflate "Jews" and "Crusaders."