The group identified themselves as a part of the Palestinian Organization, Black September. Black September was a Palestinian terrorist group that emerged after the Jordanian Civil War. Black September had carried out other missions, including the assassination of Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tall in Cairo, November 1971, however the incident in Munich was by far the most dramatic. The terrorists informed the authorities of their requests. They wanted 234 Palestinians released from an Israeli jail, and they wanted safe passage to Egypt.
Lemon continues by saying that “building a mosque at Park 51 is an extraordinary circumstance” and this is a very heated issue because many people lost their loved ones on 9/11. Patel mentioned that Muslim Americans were also amongst those who lost their loved ones but many Americans only seem to forget this and focus on the other religions victims. Incorporating what Lemon has said, it seem like he doesn’t want the mosque to be built next to ground zero because Muslim were apart of the 9/11 attack. Just because a small group of Muslims blew up the twin towers doesn’t mean that all Muslims are evil and heartless and they should be punished by refusal of constructing a mosque near ground
The Marines were attempting to stabilize the country, torn by a civil war between Christians, with Israel as their ally, and Muslims. Israel had invaded Beirut to displace the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a terrorist group headed by Yassir Arafat until his death in 2004. An investigation was launched by the United States, which included a review of all facilities overseas, called the Inman Report. The report was prepared for the U.S. Department of State, and it investigated how the suicide bomber gained entry into the Marines’ compound. The determination was that the incident occurred due to lax security (CBS, 2005).
In 2001 Bernard Goldberg released his book “Bias A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.” In it Goldberg voices his accounts at CBS where he worked as a reporter and a producer for nearly thirty years. He discusses how liberal bias influences the mainstream media. He tells us how he comes to this opinion and how he attempted to bring this to the attention of the network executives. When he comes to the conclusion that no one will listen or do anything about the problem he decides to blow the whistle on his own company and the mainstream press in a Wall Street Journal piece. I chose this topic because I thought that liberal bias in the mainstream media existed but never really did any research.
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during the boycott, his home was bombed and he was subjected to personal abuse. In April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King was assassinated for being black and fighting for equals’ rights. (en.wikipedia.org) and (www.nobelprize.org) Now you might ask, was Socrates wrong for allowing himself to be put to death? This question can be answered in two ways. Socrates was wrong for allowing himself to be put to death because he could have asked the jurors on his trial for a realistic sentence.
Though alarming and upsetting, the stories of Dr. Mansoor Mirza’s troubling life experiences are a perfect example of how biased so many Americans really are. The one sentence that really blew my mind was one when Mirza, a well-respected Muslim doctor in Wisconsin, was at the planning commission meeting trying to open a mosque nearby and it said “[h]e kept calm when a commissioner asked if there would be any weapons or military training at the mosque.” I was shocked that someone would go so far as to assume that just because this highly respected doctor was Muslim, he was building a mosque specifically for homegrown terrorism. Considering that nearly one fourth of the world’s populous is Muslim, like Ster said in the last paragraph of “Don’t Fear Islamic Law in America”, it just doesn’t make sense if thought of it as one fourth of the world being
Gandhi was killed by a Hindu, Jesus was killed by a Jew, and Malcolm X was killed by a Muslim, as far as history knows up to date. All three of these men made a difference in their religion, went down in history, and are still used as idols today. It is irony to me that all three of these important men were killed by fellow brothers of their own religion. It just goes to show that all people of the same religion don’t always agree on the same things applying to that religion. The thing that inspired me to choose to write about Malcolm X was a movie we watched in class called “Inside Islam”.
In order to determine whether the Obama Administration's handling of the Benghazi situation was incompetent or immoral, we must first examine the situation and the Obama Administration's handling of that situation. On the eleventh anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, a mob of angry protestors had gathered outside the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. The cause of the protest was a cheaply made YouTube video entitled "Innocence of Muslims," an anti-muslim movie trailer. Angry protestors eventually began an assault on the building, where the American Ambassador to Libya and several others were killed. Less than seventeen minutes after the attacks began, surveillance drones were directed to the area.
Inspired by the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian protesters have employed the use of tactics such as marches, hunger strikes, rioting, and vandalism, in a sustained campaign of civil resistance aimed at ending nearly five decades ofBa’athist rule. The uprising was described as "unprecedented" by several political commentators. As protests continued, the Syrian government began deploying tanks and snipers as a means to quell the uprising. Water and electricity have been shut off in particularly restive areas, and security forces have resorted to confiscating flour and food. The Syrian Army has besieged the cities of Daraa,Douma, Baniyas, Hama, Homs, Aleppo, Talkalakh, Idlib, Rastan, Jisr ash-Shughur, Deir ez-Zor, Zabadani and Latakia, among other towns.According to witness accounts, soldiers who have refused to open fire against civilians were summarily executed by the Syrian Army.
Walter Lippmann first used stereotyping in 1992 to describe bias in perceiving peoples (Buchanan and Huczynski, 1997). Stereotypes are standardized conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions. Nowadays, our opinions are strongly influenced by the media and outside influences. For instance, last year “Cleveland Leader” published an article, which title attracted many people's attention: ‘Five Arabs Arrested in UK Plot Against the Pope’ (Kent, 2010). Directing ones opinion that Arabs are guilty by the fact they are Arabs.