1.   Serious penalties already exist for serious offenses, they say, and hate-crime laws only feed resentment between groups.

2.   The Islamic world has never fully recovered, and that disparity has continued to feed resentment.

3.   The Islamic world has never fully recovered, and that disparity feeds resentment today.

4.   These differences feed resentments that occasionally find expression in far-right violence.

5.   Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates warned that the terms of international trade were too favorable to the rich world, a disparity that feeds resentment.

6.   That resentment is fed by frustration and disillusionment among Arabs, who see themselves as too weak and lacking in unity to do anything about it.