We also are often discriminated in public places. Muslims nowadays are afraid to say they’re Muslims because of all the hate they will get. I myself was bullied, and one term they used was for me blowing up buildings and me being a terrorist. Just like how the blacks were discriminated, it is our turn in the 21st century. The media blamed us for the 9/11 attacks, yet it wasn’t us.
For example, when Ali and her sister Lela went to school the kids would taunt and called them names, and say things like “Where’s your oilcan?”, and “Are you a terrorist?”Which was very hurtful to them because they didn’t do anything wrong because of their last name they were guilty by association. In addition to being stereotyped, another negative effect of racism was being ridiculed in the media. For instance, the media would show men with guns aiming at the planes in the sky. The media did not make it no better showing the negative on television scaring people into thinking that they could be attack at any moment. When Ali went back to work there would be faxes of camels, SCUD missiles, and dead Arabs.
Americans evacuated buildings, shut down airports, and rushed to see their loved ones because they were terrified of what might happen next . After that tragic day, terrorism has become more of an alarming topic than ever before. So many questions arose after the attack on the United States. Why would someone want to commit such a horrible act? Why would a person kill themselves only to kill others?
The one way that I could identify the hatred and the resentment that these teens had against each other would be the gangs here, such as the Bloods and the Crips. To put these two gangs together in one camp would be a very volatile situation and unpredictable because of the revulsion that they have against each other. It could be like they are from different countries, because they have a totally different set of values and beliefs that they were taught and they strongly uphold them. To cross into the enemy territory could have devastating results for both and they both have a reluctance to get along with each other. One of the first quotes from the Palestinian perspective that caught my attention is one of the guys said, “I’m against suicide bombers, because they kill innocent people, but I think they are not innocent, because they are occupiers… not trying to justify, because they do it for the grief that they suffer from losing a loved one.
September 11, 2001 was one of the most horrific and historic events of all time. It has made the American citizens stereotype Muslims and those Arabs who appear to be Muslims in America. Those innocent Arabs are being “punished” because of the terrorist groups that are against America and what we stand for. In America, they are no longer looked at the same way; they are all looked at like terrorists and horrible people. The events of 9/11 have created hatred, fear, discrimination and Americans have begun racial profiling because of the Arabs who participated in the attacks.
Some people will agree that popular culture in the 1960s did more harm than good. Source B, a description of a concert written in the 1960s, creates a very dangerous image of scary fans. The ‘heaving, maniacal, screaming mob’ definitely makes it seem like the Rolling Stones had a bad influence on their fans, turning them into maniacs. Source E is a description of radio in the 1960s recounting how there were adverts for gambling ‘every three nanoseconds’ on Radio Luxembourg. This definitely does more harm than good as it could be a bad influence on people listening to make them gamble, wasting their money and destroying families, the most important social unit up to this time.
There are no clear similarities between different types of terrorists and they are certainly not all empowered by political reasons. At one point, due to the infamous September 11 terrorist attacks that left the modern world reeling with shock and gripped by anxiety, many people had the stereotype that a terrorist would have brown skin and follow the Islamic faith. The many bombings by Islamic groups in the recent decade has led to stereotype becoming more negative and further solidifies the stigma that the word carries. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force and
Terrorism: Can Be Justified? The word “terrorist” has acquired an intensely negative connotation in contemporary discourse. Terrorism is perceived as something reprehensible, as a mode of activity that breaks the rules of legitimate political violence, first, by targeting people who should not be targeted civilians or noncombatants, often perceived as being innocent of aggression and, therefore, immune from retaliation and second, by using methods that should not be employed, for example, hijacking commercial airliners or killing hostages or exploding bombs in market places. As such, terrorism is thought to violates two of the main tenets within the jus in Bello segment of just war theory assuming that we can extend the familiar moral guidelines of just war theory to all political violence namely, the so-called principle of discrimination according to which civilians or noncombatants are to be immune from military assault, and the so-called principle of legitimate means no methods mala in se (Gross 153-157). Further, its etymological roots in the term ‘terror’ suggest that terrorism has something to do with creating feelings of terror, fear, and horror, and such feelings are thought undesirable.
Julie Pense English 101, sec DE 08/25/14 Rough draft V’s Prolixity In reading “V for Vendetta “by Alan Moore, I have come to an understanding that some of society see V as a terrorist and not for the good but in my opinion he is very mad and angry at society, the way it’s going with all the wrong and how the government is are treating its people. Which brings me to ask the question is “V” a terrorist or an anti- super hero to the people? The novel “V for Vendetta” has many different arguable points. One of “V” points would be, freedom or dictatorship. "V" has many complex and interesting sides to his character or shall we say archetype.
The misinterpretation of the line “He’d kill us if he had the chance” causes an extreme amount of confusion and drama. There are many flaws in the methodology behind Harry Caul’s form of eavesdropping on the civilians of San Francisco, however to say that the misinterpretation was all his own fault would be quite naïve. A single inflection can change the entire meaning of a sentence. And in Harry Caul’s case, it was a very, very big change. Harry; being a professional eavesdropper, asserts to have an