Martha Z. Ocana 01/10/2012 GOVT 2305 Reaction Essay #1 Today I watched several videos of de Westboro Baptist Church. This people should be banned from the media in my opinion, this should not be freedom of speech. Freedom of speech should be when you’re defending a point but not hurting anyone else. It should be when you fight against people like these. I don’t know how the government allows these people to even live, they are causing damage and pain to soldier families and to gay people, the words are so hurtful and damaging that it can even lead someone to commit suicide or kill one of their members, which they’re putting themselves and their children in danger too.
What’s even worse is how the actions of few ACTUAL terrorists, labeled the billions of people in Islam and the millions in the middle east, Asia, and in the U.S. terrorists automatically as well. How does that even happen? What’s even worse than that is whenever a person that is brown or is Islamic commits a crime; it’s an “act of terrorism” and blame Islam and its teachings. Not the same case when any other race or religion commits one. You see a white man gun down children or people in a movie theatre and it’s an automatic case of psychological disorder and insanity.
The third plane hit the western side of the Pentagon, and the fourth plane was targeted at the U.S. capitol, but it crashed into a nearby field. One reason for the attack was because of the U.S. foreign policy, Osama didn’t like how the U.S. support Israel. He thought that the U.S. foreign policy oppressed and killed Muslims. After the terrorist attack on September 11, many actions were made after this incident, like the Department of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, and the Transportation Security Administration. First, the
In 22 years Americans hear about Islamic extremists in the media. Media portrays terrorism with Islam especially after the 9/11 attack. There are frequent stereotypes about Islam and the contribution media has played a role in spreading and generalizing these stereotypes about the religion of Islam in America. Reverend Michael Graham’s words were plastered all over the media claiming Islam is a “terrorist organization” and perceiving that Islam religion is “wicked” and “evil” (Berrier, 2010). This was very controversial because he had many supporters including Fox news themselves.
Religion and Violence According to the Harvard Divinity School, “Religion is a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices that serves the purpose of establishing rules and principles in a society”. When studying various religions, it becomes credible that the principles instilled are those that are morally “just”. Every major religion specifically addresses the issue of violence, and the vast majority condemns such actions. Individuals following a particular religion are expected to follow the rules and principles established which should create a world that is morally righteous and free from violence. For this instance, this is not the case, society must constantly correct immoral actions performed by certain individuals.
Why were Anti- Vietnam war groups protesting about the war? Immorality of the war * My Lai massacre * Agent orange and Napalm (which burn the body through till bone) * The draft * Carpet Bombing towns with Civilians in them rather than the enemy * Racist war * Majority of the soldiers were between the age of 19 and 22 years old * Gruesome images of the war were put onto the tv everyday and executions etc caused alarm * Zippo raids Difficulty of winning the war * The enemy didn`t wear uniform * Many u.s troops were demoralised and didn`t know what they were fighting for * The tet offensive saw the north Vietnamese army seize 100 towns which meant they were stronger than the U.S first thought
The dreaded day we all know as “9/11” was heart-rending and painful for many Americans all because of an inhumane and merciless act by a gang of jealous and loathing group of terrorists known as “Al-Queda”. On this day, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked 4 planes and intentionally flew two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. This act killed everyone on board, in the buildings and took down both towers. September 9, 2010, the proposed construction of building a “ground zero mosque” at park 51 has stirred controversy throughout the United States. Many Americans oppose the construction of the mosque next to ground zero because they see this as the terrorists gaining victory over the U.S. and building a mosque
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.
Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses rapidly became one of the most widely known and controversial books in the world when it was published in 1988. Reviled by much of the international Muslim community, the novel was banned in India and protested across the world for its portrayal of certain sensitive topics such as the wives of the chief Islamic prophet Muhammad and the infallibility of the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an. After the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini issued a “fatwa,” or Islamic judicial decree, that Rushdie and those involved in the publication of the book be killed, the novel made headline news across the globe and inspired a diplomatic crisis between countries, including Britain and Iran. Although The Satanic Verses does address the religious beliefs and practices of Islam, this is only one aspect of a complex and highly allusive novel that produces a broad and ambitious commentary about the philosophical and religious problem of good and evil. In fact, Rushdie’s novel is steeped in commentary about British and South Asian politics and culture; it takes on a diverse variety of themes involving cultural and racial identities (particularly Asian and African immigrant identities), and it is concerned with literary aesthetics and the nature of truth.
In the movie, the main character,V, opposes the oppressive and authoritarian British government of 2020 (Smith 2006). Although mask of V had been used in peaceful demonstrations it became a symbol of all the protests against oppressive governments. Some viewers felt that V is a terrorist who promotes change with means of chaos and murder by killing government