...Female Suicide Terrorism Abstract This article examines the phenomenon of female suicide terrorism. Women involvement in terrorism and political violent acts is not a recent phenomenon but the ever growing number of women involved and the universal belief of the nonviolent character of women, constitute sufficient reasons to analyze this gender shifting in terrorism. Introduction Women involvement in terrorism and political violent acts is not a recent phenomenon but the ever growing number of women involved and the universal belief of the nonviolent character of women, constitute sufficient reasons to analyze this gender shifting in terrorism. The purpose of this analysis is to attempt an explanatory view of the fundamental of female suicide terrorism in Islam. This study will focus on the study of Palestinian female suicide terrorism as the Palestinian example seems to constitute an appropriate pars pro toto. Indeed, as stated by Corocan-Nantes in her article “Unnatural beings: Gender and terrorism,” “in most of the major works on the study of terrorism there is no mention of gender despite the fact that in the last decade there has been a noticeable increase in the study of 'female terrorism.'” The common belief being to associate terrorist acts to men. Counter-Terrorism Strategy The Female suicide terrorism is real security threat that requires our full attention. A comprehensive counterterrorism plan should recognize the increasing potential for use of suicide...
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...terrorists as represented by the stereotypical Asian villains created by the social construct of race through mediums such as the media to perpetuate ideas and use facets of militarism such as war to instill these ideas and further reinstitute power and superiority of whites. The marginalization of Asian roles in militaristic movies allows for a profitable scapegoating of minorities. As seen in the gender roles of Asian men, the male Korean terrorists were prevalent, vicious, and needed to be exterminated, similar to Hollywood’s Rambo who slaughters many Vietnamese enemies in an act of justice and valor to protect one’s country. On the other hand, female Asian roles reflected Suzy Wong influences of a sexualized and submissive underling of the antagonist. But, the prevalence of Asian men in the movie, serves to out shadow the power of female roles of Asian (Dragon Lady – powerful and manipulative) to lesser roles of passiveness and controllability: the character serves no further purpose than doing the antagonist’s biding and be used as a sacrifice to divert attention of the soldiers and create a ruse for the others to escape. The limit-ness of an Asian’s role in the screen seems almost secondary and undesirable as if to construct an anti-sentiment of inferiority towards Asians, which creates a perfect counterpart: a hero to save America from the evil Koreans. The...
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...There has been countless events throughout history in which devastating acts of terrorism have occurred worldwide. Terrorism attacks such as 9/11, the Paris attack, and the San Bernardino shooting have all caused panic and fear into poor, innocent people. In all three of these attacks the people responsible have been of the Muslim religion. Due to their religious beliefs many people have begun to stereotype everyone that is Muslim to be evil terrorist, when in reality not every Muslim person is bad. Many films, television shows, and documentaries have presented Muslims in this negative stereotypical manner such as: Iron Man 3, the television show 24, a documentary called Real Bad Arabs, and Rampage. The form in which they are presented is not fair to the rest of the Muslim population, but it is what many are led to believe due to their portrayal in films and television shows. On September 11th, 2001 the United States suffered the emotional terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and a plane crash in a Pennsylvania field. This terrorist attack involved the hijacking of four airplanes by a total of nineteen men who were from nations in the Middle East. They belonged to a terrorist group called Al Qaeda which was led by Osama Bin Laden. The religion they practiced was Sunni Muslim. The first airplane was crashed by Mohammed Atta and other terrorist at 8:46am. This plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. All the passengers...
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...Stereotypes about the Islamic faith and Muslim culture in the United States range from the idea that Muslims do not value education, to the even more offensive notion that they are all violent terrorists. Despite the idea that college campuses are viewed as more enlightened and progressive settings, misconceptions about Muslims continue to abound in these environments. Mercer University is no exception. The Muslim Student Association (MSA) at Mercer University, a university with a strong Christian heritage, is one of the less popular undergraduate organizations on campus and includes only thirty students. In an attempt to demystify the the behaviors, beliefs, and practices of Muslims in the United States, I conducted an ethnography that studies...
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...to the U.S. Military. It’s always been a battle of the genders. The male soldiers provide a measure of superiority in their roles. The gender bias makes the women feel less worthy. (p.71) The combat arms are closed off from women. All women should have the same opportunities as the men. (p.72) | Since the beginning of time, women had difficulties being in the U.S. Military. They would just flee with their families from the warzones. Later on, women became more involved in the Military. In the second World War, Britain was the first country to conscript women into the national service. (p. 141) During the Wars on Terror, women were more mistreated in the military. (p.142) | Opposition women face in the Military/ obstacles to the female integration | The main obstacle is that women are placed on a different level,...
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...deceives and tricks people into believing in the concept that they try to distribute. In addition to that, movies may support an impression or a stereotype. But on the contrary, sometimes they may disprove it by some way or another. The dictator movie which has been published at 2012 by the director Larry Charles, who is of American origins, is a living example of how producers may use their power into supporting an impression that a lot of people already believe in. In this movie, Larry Charles had showed that Arabs are hairy, rich, terrorists, who find a huge importance in sexual intercourse with women. Moreover, Charles had supported these stereotypes by using humour and sarcasm as weapons to accomplish delivering those ideas to the spectators. Arabic music was used as a theme of the movie in order to stir the viewers into the Arabic region. Charles was creative in mixing between the Arabic theme represented by the music and the ideas that he wants to plant into people’s heads. In the beginning of the movie, he started by shooting the birth of the main character, Haffaz Aladdin, emphasizing over the amount of hair he had, reaching into the point that Arabs are hairy human beings in nature. Beards were one of the director’s techniques that have been used in building up to the conclusion that Arabs in general are leaning toward terrorism. Not to mention that, the main actor who was playing the president of one of the most powerful Arabic countries in terms of money, army, and strategic...
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...STEREOTYPES 1. Introduction People are living within societies in which having different cultural background. Cross-cultural literacy is difficult to undertake due to the stumbling block such as generalization that people make and stereotypes that people have. Stereotyping is the way to use the fixed images of people belonging to a group, which have a tendency to categorize people based on a group they belong to rather than processing the information individually. Generalization usually comes before stereotyping, in order to generalize certain group of people. For example, all Italian loves spaghetti, and Maria is Italian, hence in conclusion Maria loves spaghetti. In that case, people are stereotyping Maria, which in fact Maria might or might not love spaghetti as she comes from North Eastern part of Italy whose has Germanic Austrian background. In fact, stereotyping leads to arrange some conception map in a way of thinking in which aimed to facilitate the progress of information. Stereotyping can be considered normal when faced with a new situation. Stereotyping triggers the mindset that has been collectively programming to set up that each group has the same pattern, which in fact it may be different with the perception to certain things. In the worst case, stereotyping may lead to possibility of racism, exclusion and personal discrimination towards ethnic identity, culture, occupation, age, sex, education grounds and some more. However, this essay later will just...
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...Another approach to studying the oppression of Muslim women that the U.S. portrayed in the media to fuel the War on Terror is that the U.S. portrayed Islam as backwards and an uncivilized culture because of women’s oppression. Evelyn Alsultany’s analysis of news broadcast stations like CNN, NBC, and CBS after the 9/11 attacks examined that these news stations portrayed women’s veiled oppression, female genital mutilation, and honour killings as the nature of Islam’s backwardness and oppressiveness. Many media stations like CNN have viewed the invasion of Afghanistan as bringing light to the darkness of oppressed women and when they rid the towns of Taliban, women were depicted as in high heels and free women. The depiction of Muslim women as...
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...The representation of terrorism, Islam and Muslim identities on popular US series Homeland Introduction Images of Muslim and Islam have dramatically increased in the media coverage as well as popular culture ever since we have entered the “post-9/11 era”, as Elizabeth Poole observed. (2008:81) The shocking real life images from the horrifying terrorist attack in September 2011 has triggered various interpretation on the discourse of what it means to be Muslim and the image of Islam and its culture in the western media, and still have profound influence even after more than a decade and ongoing. Apart from the coverage on news media, TV entertainment, especially TV dramas also provide a powerful outlet for the popular prevailing discourses on Muslim and Islamic culture, which compare to news reports, leaves a more vivid and graphic impression on audience with its discourse and narratives. The proposed subject I am going to study is revolved around the representation of Islam and Muslim identity in the popular US TV drama Homeland. (Showtime, 2011) Homeland (Showtime, 2011) has been arguably the most successful TV series focusing on the theme of counter-terrorism and national security across the Atlantic since 2011, following its predecessor 24 (Fox, 2001) developed by the same producers. When asked what made the show distinctive compared to its predecessors, Damian Lewis, who played as Sgt Nicholas Brody, the male lead in Homeland replied, “We feel a bit differently...
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...Coalition building after September 11: A hopeless dream or a real possibility? The author believes that to address racial profiling and hate crime, a coalition building is a better approach, even though legislation needs to rewritten laws to include all the victims of such practices. Since racial profiling affects many communities of color, a unified response to the problem by various women's organizations, religious groups, and racial/ethnic communities will be an appropriate remedy, where all victims can gain some benefit. a. Imagining a collation Between Black Women and Arab Women (1) A barrier to the coalition is the fact that Arab and black women may view their concerns as too different and may not feel they have a common enemy (2) the stereotype of black women as "sexually uninhibited and willing participants in most sexual acts" sharply contrasts with the conception of Muslim women as modest, chaste, and sexually...
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...scheme exemplify the bleakness of the attacks. It was all of these dramatic attributes that lead to the popularity and power of the painting years later. Globally, Guernica, “spoke not specifically to a terrible day in Spain. Rather… the horrors that humans have visited on each other for millennia, and because of this the painting began to symbolise the reality of every war remarkably soon after its creation” (Martin 38). Picasso's painting universally speaks to anyone, because war is something that may always happen. It serves as a warning to what human aggression may lead too. To many Americans, the tragedy of 9/11 is the closest they have ever been to war like violence. Although this lead to anti-terrorism movements in the west, it furthered the installation of negative stereotypes towards muslims and their religion. Lila Abu-Lughod, an advocate for women’s issues in the Middle East points out that, “We should ask not how Muslim societies are distinguished from “our own” but...
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...Race and Racialization in Canada The term race refers to a group of people who have common physical characteristics, which are genetically transferred from parent to child. Race can also mean the classification of individuals based on observable physical traits and as a result, some people assume that these physical traits have a direct relationship with academic, ethical, and other mental skills. The above assumption might lead to racialization, which is the treatment of certain groups of people differently from other groups based on abstract or actual physical qualities. A stereotype is a prejudiced view regarding a community. Racial profiling is a consequence of the stereotyping of a racialized people. This paper examines race profiling in Canada. Furthermore, it discusses how race profiling is evident in the process of “Carding” by law enforcement authorities. Racial profiling is the suspicion of certain individuals of law breaking due to a person’s faith, background, race, or nationality. It originates from racialization of ethnic groups since it occurs because of the stereotyping of racialized people by law enforcement officials. An instance of racial profiling is the halting of drivers for inconsequential traffic infringements based on race. In (http://torontolife.com/city/life/skin-im-ive-interrogated-police-50-times-im-black/) the police pursue the author’s father and eventually stop him just because the author’s cousin threw out a piece of Kleenex through the car...
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...There were several compelling parts of the film Make Me a Muslim: Young British Women Converting to Islam. I found it interesting that each of the woman who converted to Islamic faith in hopes of living a better life away from their troubled past. Claire (known as Sophia in the her Muslim faith) found the Islamic faith to be conservative. Being conservative appealed to Claire because this kept her from drinking and misbehaving. Partying was not appealing to Claire although if she did any of that in her past once she converted her sins would be washed away. Alana had converted 2 years ago has a past life style of drinking and partying as well as Lisa who was a feisty young fighter before she converted to Islam. We got to meet Shannon a Pakistan model that grew up in the Muslim faith and is now enjoying a quite liberal lifestyle. It became interesting to see Shannon interview these three converted women and observe their practices. As she took a deep look at each of these converts Shannon began to question them on why they choose to convert to Islam. After taking interest in their lifestyles Shannon began feeling guilty as she began to question her own faith as she listen to the other women’s stories and watch their dedication to the Islamic faith. It was interesting to see how dedicated each woman was in their faith, as Sophia prays 5 times a day and wears a hijab she is accepted by the Muslim women in the temple. Alana is dedicated as well as she gave up food such as ham...
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...Strategies for focusing a broad research topic Are you overwhelmed with how much information you are finding? Try the suggestions below: * Develop a tentative focus List what you already know and questions you have about the topic and focus on those you find most interesting. * Find background information on your topic Check our Electronic Reference Collection for an article in an online encyclopedia you can trust. * Look for magazine articles Magazine articles tend to be shorter and can provide a general idea of key issues or controversies related to your topic. Try: * Academic Search Complete * Academic OneFile * Search CQ Researcher This is a great source for finding background information and overviews of a wide array of topics. * Choose a particular perspective on the issue How do scholars from different subject fields approach your topic? Finding different points of view can provide you with a better sense of direction. Look through our subject-specific databases listed on the Find Articlespage like: * Education Full Text (EBSCO) * Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (ProQuest) * PubMed (National Library of Medicine) * Limit your search to a specific time period Look for date limit options when searching a database. * Need more help? Ask a Librarian for assistance. Finding research topic ideas You'll be spending a bit of time on your research paper, so be sure to choose a...
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...Rdavis UNCG The Islamic World Islam and Terrorism: How do you see the relationship between Islam and terrorism? Many of us Americans do impulsively equate Islam with terrorism. I can’t say that this has always been true for me. Even before I started educating myself about the Middle East and the Muslim religion I would think twice before making those knee-jerk judgments. Being an African American women in a Christian based America, I have learned about racism 1st hand, the hypocrisy of the Christian church and that things are not always one sided. Growing up in the Heart of New York City also showed me how many races of people from different cultures and religions have lived amongst each other relatively peacefully. Islam is said to be the world’s second largest religion. If Islam equaled terrorism the U.S. and other parts of the world would have been under tremendous fire by the Muslims for many years. I don’t feel that Islam equates terrorism. We all have our differences but we are all human. With that said there are moral and immoral humans, there are moral Muslims and immoral Muslims. The violence we see today stems from a radical form of Islam and I believe this to be different from the mainstream beliefs of the Islamic community. There are differences between Islam and Islamism. Islamism is said to be a complex ideology of Islam. This ideology is often identified as radical and political. Islam is a religion...
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