Islamic terrorism

Kopping. The film details the proliferation of radical Islam, how it threatens Western society, its parallels to Nazism through the targeted eradication of the Jewish population and the reluctance of Western civilization to collectively recognize Islamic radicals as a world wide threat. The documentary uses a significant amount of video and audio footage compiled from Arab television and media broadcasts, supplemented with the personalized accounts from individuals who are experts or have…

On September 11th, 2001, four separate attacks on the United States were coordinated and carried out by an Islamic extremist terrorist group known as al-Qaeda. Four planes were hijacked by 19 different terrorists, with two of the planes flying into both buildings of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane flying into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the final plane crashing in a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks followed a growing unrest towards the western world and the USA…

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…

America needs to continue to Defend the safety of Israel Imagine being in a country no smaller than the state of New Jersey where you are surrounded by enemies on all sides of your borders. These enemies pose a serious threat because they have a hate that cuts deep to the bone. They actively yearn to kill you. Their hate doesn’t end there; it extends to any outside country that is a friend. "Death to you" is their call. “We want you wiped off the face of the earth.” If you lived in this…

of the Al-Qaeda organization were Osama bin Laden (killed 2011) and the "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel-Rahman who was leading recruiter in the New York area and is currently held in a US prison. The mujahideen was made up from native Afghans as well as Islamic militants and brought together a number of different groups that would not normally been seen working together; groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, Maktab al-Khidamat, and the US Central Intelligence Agency. They are successful in out lasting…

EALC 275 PAPER 1 Comparison between a Confucian ruler and a Daoist ruler Donald Trump, the Republican nominee in 2016 for US president, has been addressing the radical Islamic terrorism issues in his election speech recently. According to BBC News on September 7, 2016, Donald Trump is planning to defeat the Islamic terrorists in 30 days when he comes to office in the White House. He is calling for more military weapons, more troops and planes to give IS a fast defeat. Even though it seems to…

intelligence, military, and foreign policy in the years since 9/11. Its growth from political Islam to terrorism has been marked by numerous scholars and their contemporaries ranging from Qutb to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. There are many driving forces behind radical Islam, but one of the most important yet confusing is the concept of Jihad, which is used by all groups. Qutb describes the main goal of Islamic jihadism by writing, in his book “Cornerstones”, “This movement uses the methods of…

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,”…

accepted beliefs and renders an individual more receptive to the possibility of alternative views and perspectives.” The crisis can instigate a cognitive opening. 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…

world at large. Conversely, after the World Trade Center attack of 2001, bin Laden began to lose influence leading up to his death (Lahoud et al., 2012, p. 2). First, the creation of al Qaeda in 1993 by Osama bin Laden was a turning point in global terrorism due to the group’s obedient ability to successfully carry out their leader’s large scale attacks. The image bin Laden earned while…