Islamic terrorism

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…

strangers alike. A country grief-stricken by the troubles of past wars and, currently, the recent Islamic fundamentalist political movement. Life was simple and peaceful before the Taliban came along, destroying a modernized society. The aftermath of the terrorist group 's attacks only made such matters worse with another war following created after the 9/11 attacks, a series of terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September…

I believe Jon Ronson effectively uses rhetorical strategies in his interview, however, there are flaws as well. In the podcast, “The Spokesperson”, a London reporter, Jon Ronson, uses rhetorical strategies to report a story told by Rachel North. North was a victim of a train bombing that happened in London in 2005. She decided to share what became a controversial story on her blog page about her experiences on the train that day. In his report, Ronson uses rhetorical strategies to sway listeners…

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…

The Controversy When this attack was first reported, Hillary Clinton and national security adviser Susan Rice, told the world that it was an “ angry mob responding to a video made in the U.S. that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, but officials later determined that it was a terrorist attack”. Greg Hicks was the U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya at the time of the attack. Hicks relayed to the White House, State Department and others that this was a terrorist attack from when it first…

Osama Bin Laden’s letter to the American people was riddled with religious justification for the 9/11 attacks. From the beginning of the letter, Bin Laden speaks directly to God, asking for “God’s reward” and “support from Him” as he replies to Americans. Bin Laden uses an “us versus them”, or “Islam versus the US” approach in his response. He references the United States’ support of Israel and Judaism and how it brings “laughter and tears” to watch the US continue to delegitimize Islam as the…

Since Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by the Ayatollah for his book, “The Satanic Verses.” I have been intrigued on how anyone could write something and have such a large group of people want you dead. The last 10 years has shown us how radical Islam is showing how cruel and brutal they can be with no compromise. In 1993, the judges for the “Booker of Bookers panel explicitly singled out Midnight’s Children for novelty of content and the three judges agreed that Rushdie's...stood above the…

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…