Mumia Abu-Jamal

The War on Terror has been continuous from that point forward. There were principle destinations for the War on terror those were to crush Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Bin Laden was found and murdered on May first, 2011. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was executed by an air strike on June 7, 2006. To add to that, On September 14, 2001, another law happened called AUMF which remains for Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists…

What is ISIS? ISIS is an acronym that stands for the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" . Its recent origins must be briefly explained by political unrest in Afghanistan and Iraq that started in the 1980's. The Soviet Union invades and occupies Afghanistan 1979. Muslim Afghan warriors called "mujahideen" rebels are the fighting Soviet Union incursion from 1979-1989. The United States was openly supporting and sponsoring these anti communist rebels. This is the rise and infancy of Osama bin…

Walt states that revolutions exhibit a number of common features. First, a states administrative and coercive capacity must be in a weakened by a combination of internal and external challenges for revolutions to be possible. Key international and intra-national events created permissive conditions favorable for jihadism to develop and flourish. Several key decisive events illustrate this first point. The end of the Ottoman Empire and enactment of the Sykes-Picot agreement broke the empire into…

ISI’s leader would become Abu Umar al-Baghdadi and the group had every intention of taking control of the state when coalition forces would eventually withdrawl. These moves were going to be the first steps and intial process of starting a caliphate in the middle east. From 2006-2011…

better place and change the political geography. They have been compared to Al-Qaeda also, but in reality they are much worse and much more destructive than Al-Qaeda ever was. ISIS has taken Al-Qaeda’s beliefs and amplified them to a radicalism. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the man responsible for starting Isis. In 1999 he met with Osama Bin Laden to discuss joining forces with him, but ultimately decided he did not want to become a part of the Al Qaeda group. Instead he decided to start his own…

also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, others tend to call it the ISIL or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ISIS’ leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the former leader’s position in 2006. The first leader of ISIS was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi…

question authority. This may evolve from lack of respect for certain people or black distressed and society. In either case, obeying could be beneficial or harmful. In situations like the Milgram shock experiment, the Stanford prison experiment, or the Abu Ghraib prison incident, obeying orders from authority figures or obeying a roll can harm others. It dissociates one from their personal convictions. On the other hand, open could be useful in situations when the orders originate from someone…

direction without any question or moral perspective without knowing they are causing harm. Such form of obedience can be hostile and perilous to the people involved. This can be seen in the atrocious deaths of the Okinwa Residents, the brutal torturing at Abu Ghraib, and the dictatorship like power from the Milgrim and Zimbardo experiment. With such implications of obedience from the experiments and case studies, this paper depicts how human independency…

were also exposed to repetitive use of loud music or music. The use of phobias in torture maximizes psychological torture by conforming to the individual's fears. At Abu Ghraib, the United States Army took advantage of Muslims’ belief of the impurity of dogs to induce fear among the detainees. Another interrogation method used at Abu Ghraib was the sexual abuse of men. The infamous images taken at the prison illustrates how sexual taboos can be exploited during questioning for increasing…

saying that she could not be with a man that would allow this horrible mistreatment of other humans for the sake of knowledge. The Abu Ghraib Prison incident is very similar to the Stanford Prison Experiment, but it is a real life scenario of this abuse of power occurring at a real life prison during the war in Iraq by United States reserve soldiers. Similarly, the Abu Ghraib Prison incident was not brought to light until someone that was not part of the experiment reported it to an…