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. Arabs in America are no longer treated as normal American citizens because many stereotype them to be just like those terrorists who attacked America. The hatred for Arabs began immediately after America became aware of who participated in the attacks. Even a year after the attacks, the Justice Department was still aiming their attention on those from the Middle East and South Asia. As if being interrogated isn’t bad enough, they were also incarcerated and deported for just being their skin color.
In this paper we will examine the impact of 9/11 on Americans and the U.S. economy and why the U.S. responded to the terrorism by enacting the USA Patriot act to “protect” America, which had become a big controversial issue to Americans. Another topic we will discuss is the negative effects of the Patriot Act such as violating Americans civil liberties and how the government stereotyped and secretly arrested Arab or Muslim citizens. The tragedy of 9/11 has impacted America in many ways and ever since then, America has made a lot of changes to prevent another tragedy, such as the national security which is tighter than it has ever been in recent years, especially in airports. According to Jennie Wood’s article, she mentions that the airport has way too many restrictions on what to bring in the plane for every traveler, such as, “Liquids and toiletries have to be a certain size and placed in clear, sealed bags. No food or bottled water is allowed through security.
They Shin Bet tactics were initially most developed to gather information from the local population. The Bus 300 Affair became an important event in Israel when two Palestinian terrorists hijacked a bus but were captured alive and without having killed anyone but actually beaten to death by Shin Bet agents. The director resigned from this incident and is upset that politicians can pass the blame for incidents like this when they condone the activities and allow them to happen. An important idea discussed in this film is that depending on what side you’re on, everyone is a terrorist and liberator. To the terrorist organizations fighting the state of Israel, Israel is the terrorist organization.
His government has been fighting with insurgent rebels in the country since at least last year when fighting become intense. The United States has been providing aid and weapons to the opposition fighters because the United States wants to change the government to being a democracy like other Arab countries have moved to democracy since the Arab Spring began last year. Human rights violations are occurring in great numbers in Syria. Human rights violations are not new in the country, but have been made much worse since the fighting began. The security forces and rebels are both charged with numerous human rights violations.
When the crowd had refused to disperse by the 4am deadline, troops began to fire on the protesters in order to clear the square for the impending visit of USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The shooting continued in Beijing, and by the 5th of June, over 5000 people had died and 30,000 were injured. On that day, footage was taken of an unidentified civilian, labelled by Western media as the ‘Tank Man’ was taken. The ‘Tank Man’ became a pivotal point of student demonstrations, as he stood in fearlessly front of a line of PLA tanks. Within China, the protests caused significant political and economic upheaval.
Firstly, the Vietnam war was undoubtedly a very significant factor in the increased protests during the 60's. For example, the excessive bombing of North Vietnam lead in 1965 lead to many student protests, as so many civilians including women and children were being purposefully killed in order to ultimately, win the was by flattening Vietnam. This caused outrage amongst the student rebels. In particular, the student rebel group called Students for Democratic Society (SDS) used the Vietnam war to suggest that the US government was corrupt. The cause struck a chord with those at university more so than other groups of people due to the immense number of students that were made to go and fight.
However the riot did at one point get out of hand when protestors burned a bus. Armored cars and tanks quickly surrounded the plaza, and the police with snipers in surrounding buildings began firing into the crowd. Some of the
The police officers responded mercilessly with violence, and many of the rioters were brutally beaten and injured. Similar riots occurred on succeeding nights and were followed by protest rallies (Wiki 2). The event marked the awakening of gay rights organizations throughout the U.S. and the Stonewall Riots became the beginning of an age in which members of the LGBT community would speak up and fight for their rights, which of course lead to the budding of ideas like the ENDA
The weaknesses of social, economic, and political aspects during the Middle Ages are what ultimately lead countries in the time period to an unsuccessful existence. During the Middle Ages, there was social conflict and tension between countries, portions of countries, religious groups, and social classes. On a larger scale, a worldwide matter, the Crusades, was a result of competition arousing conflict. The Crusades had a huge impact on the Jews living in Jerusalem at the time, since outsiders were fighting over their homeland. A unique aspect of the Crusades that was not as prominent in the past was that the Crusades were not wars fought only between two sides; there were many players in the game of the Crusades.
Since September 11th, 2001 Arab Americans have been the target of discrimination. This has created an environment of tension among the American population and Arab Americans They have suffered serious hate crimes and labor discrimination by demotion leading to higher unemployment rates. Many Mosques and Muslim-owned business have been vandalized. . The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported a 1600% increase in hate crimes against the Arab American population in the year after the events of September 11th.