Militant

were not religious. The individuals who were religious, they were not extreme about it. They read from the Quran during weddings and funerals. It was not used to justify harming or killing an individual. However, after the Taliban took over, the militant group used the Quran to back up their extreme version of Sharia, or punishment. There was not a separation of church and state. Every awful act they performed, they proclaimed that it was because of the word of God and loved to punish people at…

Yousafzai for example. At fifteen years old, she was shot in the head by the Taliban at point-blank range. Years prior to the attack, Malala had been working as an education activist as the Taliban was slowly taking over her country. This group of militants began forcefully eliminating women’s rights throughout Malala’s home country of Pakistan, including their access to education. She refused to abandon her efforts to restore educational rights for Pakistani women despite the obvious danger…

on in their neighborhoods. The Black Panther Party used the California law that permitted carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun as long as it was carried in the open and not pointed at anyone. This is how the Black Panther Party came to be known as a militant group and violent organization. The Black Panther Party was formed on October 15, 1966, a few months after that they began their first patrol of the police. In…

During the time period of the 1920s anti-radical sentiment was running high in America at the time, and the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was regarded by many as unlawfully sensational. Authorities had failed to come up with any evidence of the stolen money, and much of the other evidence against them was later discredited. During the next few years, sporadic protests were held in Massachusetts and around the world calling for their release, especially after Celestino Madeiros, then under a…

stood firmly against physical and cultural genocide, fighting through negative stereotypes, forced assimilation, the influences of drugs and alcohol, injustice, as well as lack of advocacy even into the present. Native Americans took action through militant and peaceful protests, social action, as well as legal confrontation to combat racism and discrimination in and to their culture. “Kill the Indian, save the man” was a prime example of the struggle of cultural genocide via forced…

devastating global response to cyber warfare—particularly Stuxnet—to the Cold War nuclear arms race. However, this comparison falls short for one key aforementioned reason; accessibility. Civilians or small—whether by physical size, manpower or resources—militant groups cannot often afford to develop or procure nuclear weapons, thus the risk for large and developed nations that can afford those technologies is relatively low, compared to a high risk for those who cannot afford the technologies.…

through the nuclear war has enough resources to support six people for a year. But the shelter’s capacity is unknown, which there is a chance that the ten people can fit in the shelter. The ten people are the bookkeeper, his pregnant wife, black militant, famous historian, Hollywood starlet, biochemist, rabbi, Olympic athlete, college student and a policeman. Despite all the negative things that are happening; four people have to be evicted out of the shelter. Who would be the four unlucky…

Leading up to the decolonization and attainment of independence by Kenya, the Mau Mau rebellion was influential in persuading the British government to end their colonial rule because the citizens of Great Britain would not support the continual use of force and military to simply maintain a colonial holding (Nissimi 2). This uprising led to the deployment of over 50,000 British troops and policemen who killed 12,000 Kenyan rebels (numbers are estimated as high as 20,000 if unofficial deaths are…

reliability and morality. Drone combat is one form of new fighting methods that have caused a lot of uproar within communities. Drones, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are unmanned aircrafts used by the United States since 2002 to target suspected militant-embedded regions in opposing or rival countries, which ultimately reduce the capabilities of terrorist organizations. Used in situations where manned flight is considered too risky or difficult,…

What Carmichael and Hamilton mean when they say African Americans are colonial subjects of white society is that African Americans do not own anything that they have essentially produced through their own labor. They sell their labor to produce a raw material, then buy that raw material regurgitated into a product. Essentially they are working for free and are subject to the institutional racism that is evidently present. Two dimensions of this colonial status are the political and economic…