Shinrikyo is a Japanese ‘New Religious Movement Organisation’ but they are also labelled as a terrorist organisation in many countries across the world. The group originated in 1984‚ in Japan. It started as a cult where the founder and leader‚ Shoko Asahara‚ promised followers that they would have the power to hover or levitate if they joined. Since its establishment in 1984‚ it has committed at least two terrorist attacks. The group was popular in the 1990’s and had many members (10‚000 in Japan and approximately
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responsible for these terrorist attacks‚ no ethnic or religious community should be collectively blamed. Blaming ethnicity and religion as the root of this catastrophe only drags countless more innocents into a cycle of hate. Grouping Muslims or Arabs with terrorists is unjust and prejudiced. Even as the unscrupulous criminals behind this tragedy cloak themselves under a veil of religion‚ we in the civilized world should distinguish between religious beliefs and murderous terrorists. Indeed‚ all Muslims
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An Analysis of the 9/11 Terrorist Attack On September 11‚ 2001‚ 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four United States commercial airliners travelling from the east coast to California. The hijackers forcibly took control of four planes. Two planes were purposefully crashed into the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City. The third aircraft was flown into the Pentagon building in Washington DC. The fourth plane landed in a Pennsylvania field. All of the people on board the aircrafts were killed
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Beyoncé the Feminist or Sexual Terrorist The article “Beyoncé: Sex Terrorist” written by Noah Berlatsky introduces the difference between moralizing a message in an appropriate or inappropriate manner. Fox pundit Bill O’Reilly addresses how Beyoncé’s video “Partition” is an inappropriate way of expressing art‚ being that some of her fans are teenage women who idolize her. Bell Hooks‚ the feminist scholar‚ expresses the same worries for our younger generation of women. This article proposes that
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group is disputed. The Basque nationalist party Batasuna (Unity) has often been viewed as the political wing of ETA (the party was banned in Spain in 2003 for failing to condemn ETA’s violent tactics. but not in France. It is on Europe’s list of terrorist organizations). Subsequent political parties have arisen in the place of Batasuna in Spain‚ and managed to gain parliamentary seats. Historical context
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Hezbollah is a Shi’a Islamic terrorist organization. They had emerged in Lebanon in the early 1980’s as a consolidation of other Shi’a militias. Their early activities in the 1980’s had mainly focused on the Lebanese civil war acting against American and Israeli forces. This came about due to the Israeli’s occupying Lebanon for eighteen years up until 1990. Hezbollah waged an asymmetric war using guerrilla tactics such as suicide attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces. Hezbollah is regarded
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2011 Norway Attacks The 2011 Norway attacks were two terrorist attacks committed one after another to the Norwegian government‚ civilian population and a youth run summer camp on the 22 July 2011‚ claiming the lives of 77 people. All by a lone terrorist‚ Anders Behring Breivik. The first was a car bomb explosion in Oslo within the executive government quarter of Norway. The explosion killed eight people and injured at least 209 people‚ twelve of them seriously. The second attack occurred less
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Al-Shabaab or the “Youth” terrorist organization HLSS June 9‚ 2013 The organization Al-Shabaab‚ or "The Youth‚" is an al-Qaeda-linked group and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization fighting for the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic state in Somalia.i The group‚ also known as Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen‚ and its Islamist affiliates once held sway over Mogadishu and major portions of the Somali countryside‚ but a sustained African Union military
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THE P EOPL E’S TE RRORIST DAUMIER’S RUE TRANSNONAIN Jeremiah S. O’Leary ARTH-110-01 ! Honore Daumier’s Rue Transnonain captures the politically charged artistic movement that took royalty caricature to the mainstream. The French monarchy had recently enacted legislation that restricted workers’ union formation‚ thereby allowing unacceptable working conditions to continue to occur without repercussion. Highranking government officials also began slipping work contracts to friends and
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bombarded with the term “terrorist‚” and thus the audience is left pondering upon whether this masked man with the name of V‚ is truly a terrorist threatening the nation. Consequently‚ the ultimate
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