HISTORICAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
UNITED KINGDOM
ARSHIA ROY
The deadliest terror attack on American soil came on a day of unprecedented shock and managed to turn international order upside down. The 9/11 attack carried out by 19 operators of the Al-Qaeda unleashed carnage – killing thousands and leading to colossal damage of property. Today, we face a determined enemy who sees this as a war of attrition –as an epochal struggle along the lines of their perversion of Islam. The Al-Qaeda has put their potent ideology into effect given that the societies they prey on are vulnerable and thus they justify their acts of inflicting harm in the name of jihad.
As was stated in the 9/11 Commission Report, [1]The …show more content…
As His Excellency, Tony Blair said, [2] “The people who perpetrate terrorism have no regard for the sanctity or value of human life and thus we, the democracies of the world must come together to defeat it and eradicate it. It is imperative to understand that this is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.”
Thus, our mechanism to tackle the scourge must be two-fold – to dismantle the Al-Qaeda network, and the ideology that is the backbone of Islamist terrorism. Not only must we look into the roots of the attack but also the consequences that will affect the world at large. To delve further into the attack, it is crucial to understand the radical narrative and to subdue the growing anti-west sentiments. The funding of terrorist organisations is an aspect that must be given special attention to in order to thwart future attacks on States alike and thus an international framework can be agreed upon for the same. In the given scenario, the time for complacency is long gone and now is the time for greater action. Thus having learnt from past experiences that the end cannot justify the means, it is time to put our principle into effect before many more innocent lives are lost under the distorted propositions of Islam.
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UNITED KINGDOM
ARSHIA ROY
The deadliest terror attack on American soil came on a day of unprecedented shock and managed to turn international order upside down. The 9/11 attack carried out by 19 operators of the Al-Qaeda unleashed carnage – killing thousands and leading to colossal damage of property. Today, we face a determined enemy who sees this as a war of attrition –as an epochal struggle along the lines of their perversion of Islam. The Al-Qaeda has put their potent ideology into effect given that the societies they prey on are vulnerable and thus they justify their acts of inflicting harm in the name of jihad.
As was stated in the 9/11 Commission Report, [1]The …show more content…
As His Excellency, Tony Blair said, [2] “The people who perpetrate terrorism have no regard for the sanctity or value of human life and thus we, the democracies of the world must come together to defeat it and eradicate it. It is imperative to understand that this is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.”
Thus, our mechanism to tackle the scourge must be two-fold – to dismantle the Al-Qaeda network, and the ideology that is the backbone of Islamist terrorism. Not only must we look into the roots of the attack but also the consequences that will affect the world at large. To delve further into the attack, it is crucial to understand the radical narrative and to subdue the growing anti-west sentiments. The funding of terrorist organisations is an aspect that must be given special attention to in order to thwart future attacks on States alike and thus an international framework can be agreed upon for the same. In the given scenario, the time for complacency is long gone and now is the time for greater action. Thus having learnt from past experiences that the end cannot justify the means, it is time to put our principle into effect before many more innocent lives are lost under the distorted propositions of Islam.
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