Jihad

Imagine being in a world where any body of any age, sex, religious affiliation or background could carry out their daily activities and live out their days without any biases or discrimination. Imagine setting up a world that has no pre-judgment for our children and future generations. This is the kind of life that acts such as terrorism prevents us from achieving. With every act of terrorism that occurs, a negative picture gets imprinted into the publics minds that will stick for a very long…

The Fenians: Terrorists or Freedom Fighters A big question that has arisen is whether the infamous Fenians were terrorists or freedom fighters; however, before we delve into this question we must know what a terrorist and freedom fighter is. A terrorist is a person who uses terrorism (violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. It is best to not come in the way of these people as they will get rid of anybody in their way whether innocent or foe to achieve their goal. An example…

Within all Terrorirst organizations, there is a particular mind set and behavioral trait in which they all share. Established organizations have well placed recruitment tools and techniques to maintain their ranks. Psychological and behavior factors that these organizations use are similar to those of well run governemnts. Recruitment, Media, Power, Wealth, and Radicalization all play vital roles in the process of being a part of on of these groups. Therefore, Individuals who enter these…

solid platform of unbreakable religious beliefs and extreme rigidness. These volunteers confuse terrorism with a religious war and misguide the new recruit to the extent of sacrificing their lives in the name of religion. At the time of protest, jihad bin laden and his fighters gained funding from America. Some researchers think that laden himself has specialised…

In recent years there has been a new threat developing within the United States. Before, it was mainly assessing threats from external forces. The new threat to be seen is that of lone wolves, and homegrown terrorists. The technical definition of a homegrown terrorist is, “violence that is perpetrated against people or property by their own citizens or permanent residents of a state under jurisdiction of that state in order to promote political, religious, or ideological objectives” (Buetel).…

Terrorism today Terrorism is defined as “The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims”. Prior to the 2000’s few Americans understood exactly what terrorism is and looks like. We would hear the term terrorist and associate it with third world countries who were always in the mist of war. As for the rest of Americans who were clueless it wasn’t until the tragic events of the morning of Sept 11, 2001 when the word “terrorism” took on a whole new meaning. From this day to…

then finds peace the same way Sayyid does in the religion of Islam. He converts in a prison under the Nation of Islam just as Sayyid joins the Muslim Brotherhood. Groups both set on spreading Islam in very similar way. Each declaring in a sense a “jihad” but with that of Sayyid’s being motivated as need for Islam to spread. Malcom reflects a need to fight in his speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” in a more aggressive manner for protection of rights. Sayyid in which both preaching and force are…

be heroes. We will be with Allah in paradise.” Khaled bolsters Said’s motivation to proceed with the suicide mission by claiming that they are actualizing God’s will. However, his words are very reminiscent of Islamic extremists who radicalize the “jihad” to justify terrorizing and killing non-Muslims in the name of God. With his choice of dialogue, Hany Abu-Assad evokes a negative impression of Khaled, likening Khaled to Jihadist extremists. Similarly, in a previous scene, Abu-Assad associates…

The terrorist organization Al Qaida was established in 1988 in Pakistan by Osama ben Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. The term al Qaida refers both to the physical base of the organization in Afghanistan and to the database to identify volunteers for jihad. Most of the Jihadist are all young men between the ages of 20 and 31. They are almost all from large siblings (cf. analyses of Dr. Rik Chopra for the Guardian, echoes 11/2015). And they were almost all raised in a relative absence of paternal…

Jihad vs. McWorld Review Jihad vs. McWorld is an article written by Benjamin R. Barber. This article talks about the concepts of tribalism and globalism and how they may be threat to democracy. He begins to explain what McWorld and Jihad mean. Jihad is essentially the tribalism and the McWorld is globalism. Basically both forces are operating in the same regions with equal strength in opposite directions. Neither forces needs or promotes democracy. One force is attacking social cooperation,…