The Road To 9/11 Analysis

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The Road to 9/11 By: Jason White This film depicts the Middle East culture, the Islamic history and the lead up to 9/11. The film starts with the events of 1918 and the fall of the Ottoman Empire in WWI and brings us all the way through to the present. The Ottoman Empire was the last great Muslim Empire. Islamic Nations suggest that they have suffered eighty years of oppression by the western civilizations. The film shows us how very few Middle Eastern countries embraced any form of western policies, and the ones that did suffered backlash from their “brothers.” Turkey is the most recognizable country to embrace western philosophies some of those philosophies include women having equality and democracy. It also shows us how the divide of the Middle East helped Nazi Germany in WWII defeat Great Britain and France. At the end of the war it shows how Arab nations wanted to get the Jews out of Israel and then the Arab leaders where assassinated for their involvement and embarrassment for their failure of keeping the Jews out of Israel. In the wake of the defeat a new generation of leaders emerged which gave the countries hope. These new leaders did not create open societies they built nations of animosity towards Israel. A gentleman from Egypt named Nasser…show more content…
The journalists and professors which the majority was of Islamic decent were very objective and just brought out the facts. I thought that the off screen narrator had a perfect tone for what was being spoken about and summarized the facts quite nicely. I do how ever get the sense of optimism from some of the journalists and professors for a modernized society with the best from the east and the west. I don’t share the same optimism I think too much history is entrenched in their culture and as a people they don’t know or are scared to rid themselves of the fundamentalist beliefs because it has failed them in the
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