forced the Islamic law. They also ruined many prehistoric books and documents and destroyed tombs, saying that worshipping the devil, violates the views of Islam. Meanwhile in September 2012, rebels equipped with aircraft weapons and rocket forced grenades fired at the Americans in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other group administrators (Canada, G ). U.S. administrator of state Hillary Clinton said the U.S. assumed that Al-Qaeda in the Islamic…
The Beginning of the End of Terrorism: Is It Justified? In the most recent years, a rise in terrorism globally has invoked a string of United States military actions in response. Though these actions have been debated by pacifists to warmongers based on personal beliefs, Aquinas’s just war theory from Summa Theologica is the most impartial and distinguished method to justify or condemn the U.S. military’s involvement. There are numerous actions taken by the United States military that were, and…
the Pentagon in Washington, and the last airplane crashed in Pennsylvania in a field when passengers tried to stop the hijackers. This resulted in massive destruction and death, and was the major trigger for the United States to begin fighting terrorism. Of the over 3,000 people who lost their lives during this event, 400 of those were firefighters and police…
Terrorism is something that the United States as a nation must acknowledge on a regular basis. Organizations, sympathizers, and lone wolves are all around, and understanding the psychology behind their thought processes and what motivates them to commit their heinous acts. The main terrorist organization the United States has faced is al Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden took his skills and knowledge of successful businesses and incorporated them into the development of al Qaeda. Bin…
Terrorism: 9/11 On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 a group of terrorist called “Al-Qaeda” hijacked 4 airplanes and crashed them into the world trade center’s north and south tower in New York City. This left the whole world in shock. What many people thought was going to be a normal day came out to be a day that we will never forget. Nothing this devastating had ever happened in US Soil since the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. A perfectly executed plan by a terrorist group…
Terrorism in The United States Americans have a stereotypical way of thinking when it comes to terrorism in the United States. When you think of terrorist you think of “Muslims”, you think of “al Qaeda”, and someone of Arab descent. While Stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason and it’s not right we have good reason to feel the way we do. Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al- Zahawiri, are Arabs. All 19 of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Arabs. The hate between Americans and Arabs to some…
the past decades. The Muslims want to revamp the world to replace the states with one true Islamic leadership. Al Qaeda wants to drive out all Americans from Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda has transformed and adapts their recruitment methods since 9/11 to implement new and invasive method to recruit members to the organization. The United States made every effort to dismantle and to be proactive against global terrorism to immobilized al-Qaeda. The first step to cripple the recruitment process the…
One of the main differences and what people are being accused of. In The Crucible, people are accused of witchcraft. In the Red Scare, it is communism and in Islamaphobia, it could be from terrorism or just being Muslim. In the Red Scare and Islam, only a small percentage are communists or terrorists. The punishment of witchcraft in The Crucible was death by hanging or confessing to being a witch. If convicted of communism during the Red Scare…
some individual engage with Islamic radicalism movement? What explains their initial interest? Why do they 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…
The insurgency is blamed for catastrophic attacks aimed against Somali nationals and foreign aid workers. In June 2006, members of Al Shabbab kidnapped four western aide workers and more than a dozen Somali’s. (Article, Fall of Mogadishu Leaves US Policy in Ruins, The Guardian 2006). This incident greatly affected the presence of aid workers in Somalia and has resulted in the African Union amending its policy on sending western aid workers into Somalia. Shabbab has also carried out car bombing…