Great White Americans
1990s
- Bill Clinton o Democrat o Scandal o Less aggressive than Bush about Foreign Policy o Iraq first step o “You are with me or not with me” o Cut money supplies for terrorism
- Bush o Republican o No social programs o Oversea social programs o Based on his father
911
- Police Rescuers o Hand by hand, helped a lot. o America united they stand o Majority of white people o 356 died white
- Bill gates o Born seattle o Harvard
§ Dropped out o First commercially successful PC o Microsoft o One of the richest example
- Steve Jobs o Apples o Pixar
- John Elway o Football player
- McGwrie o Baseball o 60 Homeruns
Terrorism
- Background info o Islam and Radical Islam
§ Islamic Values
· Family, Faith, Hard work, and improvement of self and society
· Purity
· Only one god
§ Misconceptions
· Treatment of women
· Treatment of minorities
§ Radical Islam groups
· Taliban
· Kharijites o Belief
§ Lost of true path
§ Non-believers are sinner
§ Violence can be justified o Key Believers
§ None that is famous
· Wahhabi Islam o Beliefs
§ Newer editions of the Quran is false
§ Violence can be justified o Key Believers
§ Osama Bin Laden
· Muslim Brotherhood o Beliefs
§ Complete Islamic society
§ No nation state
§ No Democracy o Key Believers
§ Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri
§ Sayyid Qutb
§ Hassan al-Turabi
· Common points o Islam has changed o God is supreme, obey god only o The west is a place of sins o Hates Israel o Major Terrorist Figure
§ Osama Bin Laden
· Leader of Al Qaeda
· Raised in a wealthy family
· Learned Radicalism during University years
· The invasion of Soviet Union shaped his ideology
§ Why he hates America
· America’s support for Israel and its position on the Arab – Israeli conflict
· U.S. military attacks and sanctions agains some Arab countries and its military bases in the Arab world.
· U.S. Support for some authoritarian Arab regimes, and its hostile policies toward Islam, and its own citizens of Arab and Muslim origin.
· U.S. hypocritical behavior regarding democracy and human rights in the Arab world. o Al Qaeda
§ Founded in 1988 by Bin Laden
§ 2830 members
§ Purpose
· To overthrow Muslim governments
· Radicalization
· Destroy the U.S.
§ Tactics
· Use of terrorism
· High technical sophistication o Terrorist Attacks
§ Octover 8, 2002 attack on US military personnel
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