Early Islamic philosophy

thousands. People always complain about how tedious it is to travel during the holidays recently, but with all the people coming in and out of airports one can’t blame TSA for the extra security and invasion of privacy if its keeping safe. In the early days of modern civilization, society gave numerous rights for protection and essentially, we do the same today. Although they’re many that abuse their powers we need to allow law enforcement to do their jobs. Obey the orders and command and it’ll…

This can take a variety of forms, depending on the individual, but when related to Islamic movements, the cognitive openings tend to be “economic (losing a job, blocked mobility), social or cultural (sense of cultural weakness, racism, humiliation), and/or political (repression, torture, political discrimination)” as well as “personal,”…

Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was of colossal importance to the development of Islamic militant radicalism and his ideas were a significant foundational support of the establishment and structure of al-Qaeda. Azzam was born in 1941 in Jenin, Palestine, where previously to Azzam’s birth, the British under the Balfour Declaration of 1917 was under the obligation of providing and maintaining in Palestine, a nation for the home of the Jewish people. This declaration was made between the Foreign Secretary…

When thinking of terrorism, the first person that probably comes to mind is Osama Bin Laden. He was the leader of a terrorist group Al-Qaeda, who caused the deaths of many innocent people, including 3,000 Americans. His extreme hatred towards Western society cause him to commit these horrible crimes, which got him on the FBI’s most wanted list. Bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011 by US forces at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Even though he contributed to Saudi Arabia’s economy, his…

Narrative The assassination of Osama Bin Laden(OBL) on May 2 , 2011 will be remembered as one of the most painstaking & complicated Intelligence covert operations of our times . The hunt for OBL was massive & relentless in the aftermath of September 11,2001 attacks which he acknowledged to have planned , financed and executed . For the subsequent decade that followed the shocking attacks , OBL seized every opportunity to rejoice over murdering thousands of innocent lives and…

screening religious groups for terrorists often mires attempts to counter this new mode of warfare. One editorial asks why the President has chosen to “stop targeting...the gravest domestic terrorist threat to Americans and to focus instead solely on Islamic terrorism” (factsstillmatter-cite), concluding that it is a political move to keep support. True or not, increased attempts to thwart terrorism are needed. Wartime should entail some disengagement from politics to focus on preserving life.…

The Bargain Mart in “A Map of the City” eventually closes because of financial difficulties, and its closing makes a profound personal impact on Miriam’s father’s sense of belonging, and he is physically displaced from his family. As a consequence of the store closing, the family is forced to move out their house into an apartment (Thien 328). Miriam’s father feels like a failure, he is said to feel “only despair” at this change (Thien 328). Miriam’s father is suggested to feel like he cannot do…

There is no way that xenophobia does not exist in the contemporary world, you can see it in political campaigns and when an epidemic threatens western civilization. However, The Walking Dead is not an example of xenophobia. The graphic novel The Walking Dead shows a civilization trying to come back after a zombie apocalypse, in which they are living in complete survival mode and never know what is coming for them next. Some people believe that The Walking Dead only has to do with humanity's…

May 2, 2011, the United States finally got revenge after ten long years. Osama bin Laden planned the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001. Our United States government started to plot out the prosecution of him in August of 2010 (History 1). We were watching the Abbotabad Compound (History 1), in Abbotabad, Pakistan, a town North of Islamabad (Bigelow 1). He was living in the compound with his family, friends, and protectors. He kept many files and hard-drives of all his…

The Party of God, Hezbollah justifies its armed organization by claiming its goal is to "LIBERATE OR RECOVER OCCUPIED LANDS OF PALESTINE". Levitt (2013) states that Hezbollah a Shia group, does not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel, and it has been labeled as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the US State Department. Its headquarters is in Lebanon, which is home to a vast majority of displaced Palestinians Hezbollah began its anti Western militancy with attacks against…