Introduction The literal meaning of Islam is peace. Because of many current world events‚ Islam is a highly controversial and sensitive issue that has many misconceptions that need to be more fully addressed and understood. It is true that the events of 9/11 have separated the history of American relations with the Muslim world into before and after phases‚ negatively affecting the patterns of assimilation of immigrant Muslims into American culture and society (Simmons‚ 2008). This essay will
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Obama’s Euphemisms: Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq Rationale Euphemisms are used in writing to reduce offenses or disturbances in the audience created by certain words or phrases. Euphemisms are widely used in normal social contexts‚ the media and even politics. Politicians use euphemisms in their rhetoric to lessen the impact of their words to avoid creating alarm and heighten emotions. Political euphemisms often “sugar coat” the real message and do not give an actual portrayal of the message
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Bin Laden directed the financial operation in a computer archivist called al Qaeda (literally base “data”). Since then many members of the mujahideen extremist went association with Al Qaeda network. (http://especiales.ya.com/alqaeda/) In December 1978 Prince Turki Al Faycoal‚ director of the Saudi secret service‚ recruited to Bin Laden for financial trading operations the CIA in Afghanistan. The CIA invested two billion dollars to achieve the fall of the Soviet Union
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Zeitoun family’s view of the events mainly because of the discrimination that Zeitoun had to go through during the Hurricane Katrinna‚ by the simple reason that Zeitoun is a muslim man‚ they accused him and his two friends‚ of being part of the AlQaeda. The American police – military or a higher power – imprisoned them by their religion and did not give them their right to a phone call or a lawyer. “ Zeitoun was pushed toward the front door. The other officers had already gathered Ronnie
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Washington. It is an act of terror against the people of the world. The US is pursuing its War on Terror without addressing its root causes which are social‚ economic and political in nature and not military. US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001‚ forced AlQaeda and Afghan Taliban sought refuge in Pakistani tribal belt due to the porous nature of the international border and started organizing their resistance to US forces in Afghanistan from safe sanctuaries. R etrospective V iew (Cont.) Socio-economic
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Liberalism: According to liberalism prospective the Taliban came to power to bring law and order. After soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan there was a situation of chaos and there was no stable situation in Afghanistan. According to realism prospective Taliban came to power by the name of bringing order‚ norm‚ law and stability in Afghanistan. They have been used this as mean to bring trust among normal people. US‚ NATO and other larger international coalition has mandate to construct Afghanistan
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Introduction In 2011 a wave of anti-government demonstrations and protests hit the countries in the Middle East. The western media called these protests the Arab Spring. The term ‘spring’ refers to protests that arise from one country‚ with other countries holding similar protests in an almost same span of time. The main reason behind the Arab Spring was the growing resentment and hatred towards the mostly dictatorial regimes. The cost of living was soaring high‚ there was massive police brutality
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Overton-Scheron475f10onlinefinal Scheron Overton December 09‚ 2010 Public Administration The Case of Donald Rumsfeld and Prisoner Abuse at Abu Ghraib Introduction The report on the case of Donald Rumsfeld starts off with Rumsfeld’s hearing (May 7‚ 2004) with the Senate Armed Services Committees. His response to the question of whether he should resign or not; is “If I felt I could not be effective‚ I’d resign in a minute.” The report also gives an
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Jason‚ and Paddy Allen. "The Five Ages of Al-Qaida." Latest News‚ Comment and Reviews from the Guardian | Guardian.co.uk. Web. 14 Oct. 2010. . Dixon‚ Norm. "How the CIA Created Osama Bin Laden." Green Left Weekly. Web. 14 Oct. 2010. . "Inside the Alqaeda Terrorist Network." Middle East: MidEastWeb. Web. 15 Oct. 2010. . "List of Known Terrorist Organizations." CDI - Center for Defense Information - Security Policy Research Organization. Web. 15 Oct. 2010. .
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Revolution and Reform of Developed Nations: ISIS in Iraq Throughout the year of 2014‚ we have heard a lot over the extremist group the Islamist State of Iraq and Iraq who is also known as ISIS or IS. This group has brought many challenges‚ and most importantly numerous casualties of innocent people to the state of Iraq and other countries’. Since the start of ISIS the United States has been working with Iraq to dismantle the terrorist group. Geography Just a rough history Iraq‚ it is located in
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