This course will provide students with an overview of terrorism in the world today. It will focus on the conditions of the Middle East, which have led to an ongoing conflict between radical Muslims and the west. The course will cover early conflicts from the time of the Crusades up to the present day. Included in this will be the rise and fall of the Caliphate, the goals of modern terrorists and their methods, and the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
NICK REYNOLDS
In the following video, Barrack Obama gives a speech in Cairo, Egypt saying that he plans to make the relationship between Muslims and Americans stronger. A man named Youssef Megahed is imprisoned and the US plans to deport him out of the US. Youssef came to America with his family and their family STILL has pending applications to be American citizens that I believe the US will not give to them easily just because they are Muslims. The police stopped Youssef in a traffic stop one day, and I think it was out of nowhere or planned because they came with like machine guns and bullet proof vests just to pull over Youssef and his friend who was also in the car. And they tell us that there were objects in the trunk that they "believed" to be explosives. I think that’s just absurd. They held them both for 18 months until Youssef's friend accepted the plea bargain, probably from peer pressure or seeing he was not going to get out anytime soon, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Now even though Youssef was not convicted of anything, the government is still threatening to kick him out of the country? For what reason exactly? He wasn’t even found guilty. And then of course not long later, they arrested him again for violating his "Immigration and Nationality Act". And I think it's completely absurd because they are trying to convict him of the same charges they tried to convict him earlier in the criminal trial. I believe that Muslims are on a certain scale discriminated a lot for the stupidest things. The main reason is because after the 9/11 attack, a lot of people are scarred that all Muslims are out to get them, or they're simply angry and don't want anything to do with Muslims. We can descrease the descrimination against Muslims if people would actually spend the time to come to learn and understand their religion, and possibly spend time with them. Muslims are not all bad, they're just feared and people don't like them.
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Nick, Excellent post! You did a great job summarizing the news story and responding to the questions in the prompt.
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