When someone hears the word Arabs or Islam post 9/11 in America, there wasn’t any sense of danger towards Muslims. Unlike today when the media brings up the religion of Islam, automatically non Muslims think the worst of us. There has become fear to see a man having a full bread, or a woman in hijab. Usually this fear comes from people who know absolutely nothing about this religion and who don’t understand it. I believe that the American press has a big influence on how the country views Muslims and things are only getting worse.…
Imagine another terrorist attack as traumatic as 9/11, the U.S. might have the greatest military power in the history of the world, but threats and attacks like those on 9/11 are always a concern to the U.S. and its allies. Terrorist attacks are a real threat because they are hard to prevent, they are carefully planned and carefully executed. ISIS is the largest and most powerful terrorist the U.S. has ever dealt with. In recent discussions of Islamic Terrorism, a controversial issue has been whether The U.S. shouldn’t intervene with ISIS and other forms of Islamic terrorism. On the one hand, some argue that the U.S. should intervene and stop Islamic Extremism from this perspective, ISIS’s primary target is the U.S. homeland and critics…
Islam was the main topic for debate when it came to the attacks, and it still is. Millions of Muslims were blamed for the attacks. In the article, “One Tweet Explains Why You Should Never Blame All Muslims For Terrorism” by John Haltiwanger, he shows numerous tweets of people putting the blame on Muslims and their religion; arguing that it is the religion that teaches them to be violent. That is not the case, Haltiwanger says, “But even if ISIS, or another organization linked to Islamic extremism, ends up claiming responsibility for the attacks it doesn’t mean the rest of the world’s Muslims are complicit.” (Haltiwanger 6).…
RADICALISATION IN MODERN SOCIETY Communities demonstrate a very significant part to radicalization in the contemporary societies. A society which compels citizens to actively engage in volunteer services in order to fulfill their civil responsibilities. However, in the urgency to respond to such expectations, sometimes intentionally or unintentionally terrorism and radicalization take the lime light. A very little empirical study has been critically evaluated to understand the reflection of such community engagement in the modern world (Crawford, 1997).…
The group taking responsibility for these attacks is the group ISIS which is the radical Islamic state that is the root of the stereotype we as Americans seem to have towards Muslims. Since ISIS has created a murderous image for Muslims we seem to assume that all Muslims are terrorists. This is a blatant stereotype and it makes life for a Muslim in America hostile and uncomfortable. The reason this stereotype was created is because the media reports on the terror attacks and emphasizes the fact that he people responsible are…
Radicalization is “the psychological process of adopting extremist positions (White).” It’s broken down into six-steps: “alienation, one alienated person meets another, group gravitates toward religion, interpret the religion in militant terms, militant group meets a terrorist contract, and they join forces (White).” According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Counterterrorism Division it is a smooth process where not all individuals become radicalized extremists. The average person seeking to pursue the Islamic faith is not converted simply by pure interest (Counterterrorism Division ). More likely that not it takes some sort of outside encouragement to reach the point of extremism.…
The United States continues to receive criticism when it comes to protecting the American Muslim community both physically and religiously. The creation of Islamophobia has caused the nation to become a breeding ground to radicalization, religious extremism, and terrorism. Constitutional freedom to express radical or extremist views and informational gaps are affecting national security and law enforcement agencies ability to prevent radicalization and terrorism. In this paper, I provide and in-depth summary on homegrown Muslim radicalization and terrorism, and the effects it has on the whole community and homeland security.…
Vladimir Putin once said, “Terrorism has no nationality or religion.” However, many Americans feel otherwise. A countless amount believe terrorism is affiliated with certain religions, especially Islam, as well as Middle Eastern countries. Whenever an attack on the U.S. occurs, people are quick to accuse the Muslims. Most never question who actually is the real culprit.…
The course revolves around the various themes existing within African American history, focused on the emergent ideal of Black Radicalism. It travels through the various Black movements in history converging them and allowing students to recognize their relationship to the larger and debatably unresolved picture. Stemming from rise of racial segregation in the early post-slavery nineteenth-century, and driving up to the apparent triumph of the race in the in the early days of Obama’s presidency whilst still developing the question posed by the present status of African Americans because of the recent American elections. In the duration of the semester we have examined topics such as the “Jim Crow policy”, the historiography of modern Civil…
The ideology behind the attacks of that day was born in the minds of Islamic leaders in a part of the world plagued by dictatorship and a disregard for human rights. The Muslim people of this part of the world that fall victim to a strain of Islam that has come to be known as radicalized Islam or extremism were often first victims of a country that lacked an education system and…
When the of the Nation of Islam is brought up, it is usually associated with being a radical group under the direction of Malcolm X. Do you ever wonder how it all started and what the Nation of Islam really stood for in the early to mid 1900’s? What was it about the Nation that drew thousands of African Americans, in the United States alone, to follow its teachings? What happened to the Nation of Islam and why isn’t it prevalent in today’s society? The Nation of Islam intrigues me because of their different viewpoints, compared to other religions. It is also, in my opinion, a topic that many people misview and misunderstand because they are uneducated to the actual facts of this religion.…
I would argue that this comparison is only valid to some extent. It is only valid if you take into consideration the people who are extremists. When people are so addicted to drugs that it modifies their behaviour and makes them do things that normally wouldn’t do, I believe that it is the same thing than when someone is a religious extremist and that because of an irrational belief in a higher power or in an ideology, one does irrational things. We can find this type of behaviour in every religion. In addition, this comparison between extremists is valid at both end of the spectrum.…
Terror attacks are normally followed by an increased number of hate crimes. Terrorists have a number of goals I assume, including creating chaos, fear and every other negative emotions. That is why it's unbelievable that other people who think themselves better than terrorists are creating the same emotions. The one thing I have learned is that I can't control or change anybody but myself, and am sure this applies to all of us.…
(Pape, 2003) 1. This author explained that in recent decades, suicide terrorism has gradually increased because terrorists have learned that suicide terrorisms pay off. The author briefly discussed some factors as to why this is the case. I found it intriguing that the perception of justice in suicide terrorism was not mentioned. Do you believe that suicide terrorism is more effective and is perceived to pay off because justice cannot be given to the person who committed the terrorist act? I believe that suicide terrorism is often successfully because it takes away from the idea that justice CAN be served.…
Al-Shabab’s ideology is typically described as a brand of Salafism and Wahhabism that supports takfir, the excommunication of apostates or unbelievers. Though it has stated many goals in the past, the group fights first and foremost to create a fundamentalist Islamic state in the Horn of Africa that would include not only Somalia but also Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Islamism and Salafism served to express commonalities and build alliances against shared enemies who happened to be world powers such as the USA or the USSR. The leadership of Al-Shabab describes the ideology in parallel to that of Al-Qaida as Manhaj, “It is the same manhaj repeatedly heard from the mouth of the Mujahid Shaykh Usama Bin Laden … the doctor Ayman ath-Thawaahiri [bin Laden's right-hand man] … and the hero, Abu Mus'ab az-Zarqaawi” [leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq] – Abu Mansoor al-Amriki reportedly announced.…