Mumia Abu-Jamal

ISIS is the biggest threat to the world and to the Christian people because over the past Three months ISIS has killed about 5,300 Christians and Yazidi. ISIS also forced about 1.2 million Iraqis and Syrian citizens out of their homes. ISIS militants are not Muslims; in fact they’re not even humans because no human would commit the crime that ISIS had committed in the past months. On one occasion ISIS militants killed About 500 Yezidis and buried some alive, while killing others in a mass…

Horror endorsed through duty and a review of its controversy led many to question the ethics of being truly and fully obedient. Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, journalist and author of “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism”, discusses the possible reasons why the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal occurred (75-77). Causing people to wonder how supposedly sane human beings could accomplish such insane acts, the American soldiers that were a share of this horrific crime against humanity displayed no…

Attention is the New Famous In the eyes of those too young to know better, becoming big and tough is just another step in life. In the poem, “Behind Grandma’s House”, the author, Gary Soto, portrays a young, troublesome boy who seems to crave attention from whoever will bestow it upon him. Through each the vivid imagery, the tough guy tone, and well-fitting poetic devices used throughout the poem. Gary Soto is allowed to portray the thematic accusation that people change both their physical and…

Who is the armed group, which massacres, genocide and spreading fear around the globe through racism, sexism, anarchism, enslavement, kidnappings, stoning, terrorizing and even mass beheadings their opposition? A faction, which stands against contemporary shared values and morals, and they advocate for violence and barbarism under the name of virtue and ideology. They are known as Daesh, but there are many disinformation, misinformation and lack of information about them. Who are they and what…

Afghanistan, when the factions of Afghanistan started fighting amongst each other for control of the country. It was not just the battle experience Zarqawi gained from his time with the jihadist groups, but also made many valuable connections. Sheikh Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi was one of those connections that helped form Zarqawi 's opinion on how he would run his organization in the future. Al Maqdisi was one of the architects of the ideology of of jihad Salafism. This ideology is based on the…

Jacob Klingbeil Mrs. Foust Honors English 12 12/5/2017 Motives and Methods of Terrorism In the past decade, terrorism has increasingly become more of a problem. With advances in technology, terrorists have found new ways to strike fear. Identifying and preventing attacks has become much harder because of these advancements. Along with the many methods of attack, there are several different motives for attack. There may not be an easy solution to the issue of terrorism, since there are many…

world—threatening to spread even farther. But who exactly caused this organization? What is their main goal? What are their motives or rewards? Overall, how did they initialize in the first place? The two initial founders of Al-Qaeda and ISIS are Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Osama…

After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda outdone the government to be the world 's most obnoxious terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda means “the base" in Arabic and the amount of terrorists are ordered by Osama bin Laden. In addition, Osama bin Laden was killed in a united action by the U.S. army in May 2011 (Hayes, L., & Brunner, B.).However, people believed that this group will be encouraged to look for a revenge from this incident, whereas others questioned if they will…

history” (Tirman 45). The United States involved itself in an ongoing conflict that has spanned from Crusades to the colonization by the European powers. When the United States pulled out of Iraq in December 2011, a splinter group of Al qaeda headed by Abu Musab al Zarqawi attacked major Shia communities to ignite a sectarian war. Due to the Iraqi military inability to stop the violence, ISIS have spread in northern Iraq and Syria. ISIS has also been inspired by the atrocities of the Syrian…

ISIS to some subtle ways the West should tackle this problem. Al Qaeda is the first chapter in the book ISIS: The State of Terror and it talks about the rise and fall of Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda stated by Stern and Berger “ISIS emerged from the mind of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian thug-turned-terrorist who brought a particularly brutal and sectarian approach to his understanding of jihad.” (13) Even though ISIS…