Mujahideen

friends to join and participate in the Civil Rights movement. He illustrated the strong ties that occurred during the civil rights movement occurred elsewhere, for example, the Mississippi Freedom Summer project of 1964, the Red Brigades in Italy, Mujahideen in Afghanistan, and the demonstrations in East Germany. He contrasts this with the lack of strong ties in the social media…

seem that helping the enemy of an enemy would be beneficial, but it can prove to be very detrimental. The United States funded the Afghan Mujahideen in their war against the Soviet Union because we wanted to harm the Soviet Union. This eventually backfired because after the Soviets left Afghanistan, the Taliban (who were primarily an outgrowth of the Mujahideen) took control of Afghanistan in 1996. 2). I do believe that our current war on terror is so extreme it can have effects similar to The…

the Other Side of the Sky is a story written by Farah Ahmedi. This book is based on the true story of Farah, a girl who was born in Afghanistan during a time of war. At seven years old, In one morning Worried that she was late for school she decided to take a shortcut through a field, saving her two or three minutes but little did Farah know that decision would turn out to be the worst of her life. Sadly, Farah stepped on a land mine! Quickly a crowd gathered around her but no one seemed to know…

When 20th Century Fox released The Siege in theaters in November 1998, protesters tested the thought of Middle Eastern villains motivated by their Islamic faith. During film production, Arab-American organizations criticized it for reinforcing U.S. stereotypes of Muslims and of Islam as a religion of terrorism. This film depicts a scene that would have never been expected only to have a devastating terrorist attack happen in NYC only three years later. I chose to analyze this movie because of…

President Reagan revived military programs that Carter had cut, as well as restart the arms race (Schultz, 2013). His efforts would restart the Cold War. Reagan would provide financial aid to developing anticommunist countries, such as El Salvador, which would become known as the Reagan Doctrine. During this time the Soviet Union’s economy had begun to collapse. This was the beginning of the end of the Cold War. In 1980 s series of strikes were staged by shipworkers in Poland. These strikes…

Najmah becomes. Many of her choices and what her character becomes are affected by the Taliban throughout the book. Najmah and her family fear the Taliban and try to take action to make sure the Taliban are stopped. Najmah is very glad that “the mujahideen control the northern part of Afghanistan, and they leave us alone. We give them wheat and vegetables because Baba-jan says they need help to keep the Pashtun talib out of Kunduz" (Staples 10). Her family is doing all that they can to make…

Insurgency I agree with the definition that, "insurgency is the organized use of subversion and violence by a group or movement that seeks to overthrow or force a change of a governing authority. The insurgency can also refer to the group itself.” I agree with this description, because it is the definition, which is accepted by the Department of Defense of the United States of America. In addition, the definition seems to be the most logical. Insurgency always exists whenever people feel…

Osama bin Laden was born March 10, 1957, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His parents where named Mohammed bin Laden and Hamida al-Attas. Mohammad bin Laden was a millionare, and Hamida was his tenth wife. They soon divorced after Osama was born. Osama was brought up as a Sunni Muslim, with his mother and step siblings. Osama liked to read, write poetry, and also play football, but his central concentration was on religion. He went to school at Al-Thager Model school from 1968 to 1976. At King…

Regime change highlights the negative, primal desires of the human conscious. Greed and apprehension are the driving factors behind today’s global instability. Economically, the US intervened in foreign land for the same reasons other global powers did throughout the course of human history. The target country has resources that the intervening country wants. Business interests and potential for profit were driving forces behind invasion. Moreover, the fear that communism would spread throughout…

The organization was named the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC). Brian Fishman wrote in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science this move was a mere media exercise and an attempt to give the group a more Iraqi feel. It was speculated that ISIL was trying to distance…