groups, and every cultures.” Well, this is what America known as to other countries- at least to my country. I remember it was early in the morning when I landed to the American soil. The sun was just rising and peaking over the horizon. I couldn’t wait to to smell the American “air.” When i finally got out of the JFK, I smelled the air. I didn’t smell anything special except the smell of burning gases from cars. I was thinking about my future. I was thinking I’m going to work hard and going to get rich soon; that’s what people think when they first come to America. While I was walking to my uncle’s car, I saw an anti-muslim poster stating, “ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS AND DON’T BELIEVE IN MUSLIMS.” Underneath that heading, it said, “Nidal Malik Hasan, a muslim United States Army psychiatrist and Medical Corps major killed 13 people and 33 people were injured in Texas in 2009.” I didn’t mind much because it happened a year ago. So, I got in the car and went to my “new” home. I got admitted to my middle school in next fall. I couldn’t wait to make new friends. I was really getting bored at home for 6 months. The…
to a dorm filled with 895 students and kills 32 innocent people. Now this next shooting we still do not really understand because it happened at a military base. Fort Hood on 2009 13 people are killed and more than 30 others are wounded nearly all of them unarmed soldiers, a U.S. Army officer goes on a shooting rampage in central Texas the assault carried out by Major Nidal Malik Hasan and Army Psychiatrist was the worst shooting at a military base. The 39 year old took with him a…
conquered territories. A monthly salary was paid to all ethnic Arab Muslims. These decrees caused the rift between classes to grow. (Acrobatiq, 2014) (Tolin Schultz, 2017) The Umayyad dynasty was more interested in government administration and maintaining control rather than religion. Because of this, when they conquered a new territory, they would leave the previous government officials in place. The first Muslim navy was created under Mu’awiya. Under the rule of Mu’awiya, the Umayyad…
This architecture is an Islamic monument found in the city of Jerusalem. It was originally finished in 691 CE at the command of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik. Construction cost was believed to be at least six times the yearly tax income of Egypt! Its architecture and mosaics were influenced by Byzantine churches and royal palaces. However, its exterior look has been altered a lot in the Ottoman period and again in modern history. Most notable with the addition of the gold-plated roof, which wasn’t…
On November 5, 2009, the Army community was shocked as one of their own committed an act of carnage when he opened fire on unarmed soldiers. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army Major, was the single gunman that day responsible for killing 13 and wounding or injuring 30 at the Soldier Readiness Center on Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. Even though some called it an act of terrorism, it is classified by the Department of Defense as an act of workplace violence. There are several factors of leadership,…
found him dead from a self- inflicted gunshot wound to the head. On august 1, 1966 there was a tower shooting in Austin Texas. And the shooters name was Charles Whitman he had killed his mother and wife in their proper homes. Then he went to the University at Texas in Austin where he shot three students in the university tower. He then went to the towers 28th floor and he was randomly shooting. He killed eleven people and wounded 30 before being shot by the police. On november 5, 2009…
unjust, hideous and criminal whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occupation of the Prophet’s Night Travel Land (Palestine)”. Bin Laden shows the same unremorseful attitude that Tsarnaev portrays during his sentencing. They both have committed hate crimes that are unfathomable for most people living on Earth today. Because these crimes are rooted in hate for the United States, it is incredibly hard to put together an American jury that can judge these kinds of cases without…
The 1995 Oklahoma bombing federal bombing by an anti government Timothy McVeigh, 2009 Fort Hood Shooting by Nidal Malik Hasan an Army Psychiatrist that killed 13 people and the recent Boston marathon bombing in 2013 caused by the Chechen brothers are only few domestic terrorism attacks in the United States history. According to Lewis, “Domestic Terrorism involves groups or individuals who operate without foreign direction entirely within the United States and target elements of U.S. government…
except the government. The government, politically, is unwilling to acknowledge the true threat of terrorists and terrorism because doing so would both acknowledge a failure or weakness in combatting the issue and is also perceived to be a judgmental label that could alienate our enemies. For example, instead of calling the Oklahoma beheading ‘terrorism,’ which many commentators believe this event to be, the government instead refers to this as ‘workplace violence.’ Rick Perry said “[a]t some…
humiliate the government in front of the word “for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand” (Resnick 2013). Another example of domestic terrorism occurred in 2001 when a biologist named Bruce E. Ivins sent letters drenched with anthrax to various media outlets as well as senators. Five people were killed and 17 people were infected with the bacteria. Ivin’s motivations behind his actions was that he wished to bring his new anthrax vaccine program into the lime light. The very next year…