Extremism

The involvement of women in domestic terrorism and warfare in the United States has been poorly explored by counterterrorist actors, scholars, and policy makers. This is because the experiences of females in armed conflict are different to those of men, due to the perceived gendered share of responsibilities and roles. Historically, direct combat was exclusively recognized as the affairs of men, with many children and women being the victims due to direct targeting and displacement. Thus, women…

of internet and in particular social media applications has led to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda being able to recruit people in the homeland and have them as sleeper cells in the US waiting on the right opportune moment to strike. The violent extremism that is seen on the other side of the world could be right next-door lying in wait to pounce and the CIA has no jurisdiction over that. The government on these matters relies on the department of homeland security and the FBI to provide up to…

There is more to the subject of torture than what meets the eye or ear of American citizens. An issue that appears morally unjustifiable may become attractive and necessary in extreme and time clenching cases. How does one maintain their moral stature while advocating the physical and mental degradation of another human being? How can America uphold its standards promoting life, liberty, and happiness while stripping humans of every essence of these words in the cruelest of ways? To delve deeper…

Throughout history of mankind, religion has played positive as well as negative influential role in human relations of the world. The religious prospects of charity, unity and community building have given rise to much social goodwill. On the other hand, religion has been related to the causation of violence, hatred, irrational thinking and many other social evils. The impact of the religion chiefly depends upon the interpretation of the religious teachings. Those who misunderstand the divine…

against an internal struggle and physical warfare in the path of God. Western perceptions of Islam and its adherents is one of misjudgment from various biased or subjective informational outlets like their idea that the Qur’an encourages hostile extremism in recent…

Globalization is by no means a new phenomenon. One can argue that its existence can be traced back thousands of years to cross cultural interactions that took place before the Silk Roads. However, the rate and scope of globalization has accelerated rapidly in the past several decades with the onsets of new technologies. Nationalism is inherent. Humans have always derived some degree of identity and security from their cultural traditions, heritage, and nationality. This does not change with the…

Islam and Christianity are more similar than they are dissimilar In a climate of fear and distrust between Muslims and Christians and in particular between Americans and Middle Eastern Muslims, I believe that it is critical to keep an open mind, stay objective and not allow fear and those who promote hate for the sake of hate, dictate how we think and feel about one another. Islam and Christianity are more alike than they are dissimilar. In the last few years and especially since 2001, there has…

want to be joined in this risky activism? Even if the cost is high and might be they will sacrifice themselves. Wiktorowicz, with his sophisticated theoretical framework of social movement theory, is tries to answers these questions, why Muslim extremism in the Western societies like Great Britain did these? Wiktorowicz, in this case, is trying to analysis the Islamic radical activism base on one radical organization (al-Muhajiroun) in London and ruled by Omar Bakri Mohammed. But I am…

down in a peaceful manner. In 1976, the United Nations General Assembly supported the regulations that were developed in the convention which forbidden the use of military or unwelcoming use of techniques used to attempt to conflict environmental extremism, but other then this action, this topic has not been formally discussed. Although UNEP and the United Nations have not been looking into this matter in depth, A method was used to try to combat this action. Operation Backfire which is used to…

The main argument that this article presents is that Muslims want to be able to call out extremists of the Islam faith by themselves, they don’t want to have other countries, or other governments, telling them what is wrong in their faith and what they should change. Recent discussions claim that when this happens, for example when “President Obama [linked] Middle East Terrorism explicitly to Islam”, they then give the impression to the audience that all people associated with the Islam faith…