Mahmood Mamdani's book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim," reoriented my perceptions of the Muslim world due to his discussion of Afghanistan. ... Prior to the CIA intervening, the Islamic world did not have, "an armed jihad for nearly a century.... Mahmood Mamdani's book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim," reoriented my perceptions of the Muslim world. ... As followed, "The Islamic world has not seen an armed johad for nearly a century. ... He just provided more information as to why we shouldn't be ignorant and hold negative perceptions of the Muslim world, especially if we are...

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Christians against Muslims trying to gain control of Jerusalem. ... Muslims have caricatured the West (especially America) as the "Great Satan" because the worldly pleasures of Western culture are luring those faithful away from the true path of Islam. Muslims reject America's decadent values and sees America as a failed Christian nation. Osama personifies the way American values are eroding Islamic values by saying "American values are eating away at Muslims like acid". Hence, for Muslims who feel alienated, and attack against America can be seen as a triumph for Islamic values. ...

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They also mistakenly associate the violent acts that occurred on that day to the Islamic religion, since the terrorists claimed that they were fighting in the name of Islam. ... The Islamic faith is based on the values of peace and morality. It is against the Islamic faith to perform any acts of violence. ... However, the Taliban represents only a minute fraction of the arabic community and muslims. ... Arabs and Muslims who live in the United States came here because they admired and valued the freedom that we have. ...

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The ethnicity of the Turkmen (the nationality) is made up of Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1%. 89% of Turkmenistan is Muslim (the branch is called Al-Fatiha. ... Turkmenistan feels great pressure from the Islam nation and is influenced by Russia....

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First of all Grendle is a hated individual with an unprecedented amount of power, too much of the world mainly Arabic and Islamic nations this is exactly how the United States is perceived. ... Then came the coming of Beowulf a man who most likely unfamiliar to Grendle, Beowulf took Jute civilians and trained them to fight and not fear Grendle, much like how Osama Bin Laden trained and funded Arabic and Muslim civilians to fight and not fear the United States, also Osama bin Laden was a very obscure individual to many Americans before this weeks tragedy. ... I believe the views and examples of...

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Therefore, blaming the Islamic religion in this is unfounded. ... The religion of Islam is rarely mentioned as a root cause. ... Another interpretation by individuals who were anti-Muslim is that, the entire religion, together with the followers, was to blame. However, even nations in the Muslim world came out to condemn the attacks and defend the religion of Islam. The Bush Administration also came out against the demonization of Islam. ...

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The citizens of the country, before then rarely thought about Muslims, the Middle East, or terrorism in general, except for a few minutes a week, when it was a topic on the nightly news. Since the attacks, Americans thoughts about Islam, terrorism as well as security, have become a way of life. ... Four commercial airliners were hijacked by radical Islamic terrorists. ... One of the many threats that our country faces today is a radical terrorist group full of savages called "ISIS " or the Islamic State. ... ISIS is now taking radical Islam, as well as PURE EVIL to new heights with their bruta...

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They said they were fighting to restore the Islam way and bring stability back to a country that hasn't seen any in a very long time. ... They wanted to bring Afghanistan back to Islamic traditions and they were very patinate about what they were fighting for. ... They strongly believed in the Islamic teachings and would do whatever it took to full fill there destiny, which made them a strong force to fight against. ... This forced them to move to Pakistan, were they set up religious schools and taught Islamic believes. ... Mullah Mohammed Omar delivered a statement saying "Even if t...

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The university taught Osama the wide world of Islamic policies. ... While Osama was there he established the MAK (Maktab al-Khindimat) in order to recruit Islamic soldiers for the fight in Afghanistan. ... Osama was highly insulted that the Saudi government would let non-believers into the birthplace of Islam. ... His decree that he issued charged Americans of declaring war against Muslims. ... They have been able to create alliances with other terrorist groups to create the International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders which includes the Egyptian al-Gama"at al-Islamiyya, ...

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From their rise to power in 1996 the Taliban have been taking the Muslim/Islamic Religion to the extreme originally they only started with approximately one quarter of Afghanistan but before their fall from power in November 2001 they had taken control of most of Afghanistan, driving innocent people out of their homes, killing civilians including women and children and enforcing strict rules such as a woman must never leave the house without a close male relative as well as other things. ...

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When Al Qaeda was founded, it was dedicated to opposing non-Islamic governments (Pike). ... Al Qaeda also maintains moneymaking front organizations, solicits donations from like-minded supporters, and illicitly siphons funds from donations to Muslim charitable organizations (Jane) The threat that Al Qaeda poses on America and other countries is very significant. ... Al Qaeda and bin Laden serve as a focal point or umbrella organization for a worldwide network that includes many Sunni Islamic extremist groups such as Egyptian Islamic Jihad, some members of al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya, the ...

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Jewish zealots conducted campaigns against the Romans in the first century AD, and the Hashshashin, a Shi'ah Muslim group who gave us the word assassin, systematically murdered those in positions and leadership during the 19th century. ... The Islamic radical movements main success has been their ability to gain legitimacy from the general public. During the past two decades, they have had enormous success with their ability to present themselves to the Arab and Muslim world as the true bearers of Islam. ... Radical Islamic organizations have declared a holy war, Jihad, in order to bring...

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Al-Qa"ida has been supporting Muslim extremists around the globe including areas such as Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Kosovo. ... The goal of Al-Qa"ida is to unite all Muslims under one government that follows the ways of Caliphs. ... He has stated that the only way to unite all Muslims under one government is to use force. ... Also, with these arrests, other terrorist and extremist groups such as the Egyptian al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya, Egyptian al-Jihad, al-Gama"a al-Islamiyya, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and the Harakat ul-Mujahidin have also s...

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Al-Jazeera: A Review Al-Jazeera is a legitimate news-broadcasting network that is accepted around the world as the Arab news service. In some ways Al-Jazeera is similar to American news channels and in some ways they are better. Al-Jazeera has been criticized though by some American media for c...

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