My Homework! (Reading Two)

For discussion
1. What questions do you have about the reading? How might they be answered?
Why is still the question, though it has been furthered answered. Why does Bin Laden lie?

He says we planned on 'continuing the massacre' when we mostly went to protect and prevent that very thing. What else, if he were still alive, would he say to get people to follow him? It is near impossible for the answer, seeing as he is dead..

2. Years have passed since President Bush's comments. What knowledge and evidence do you have to support, add to, amend, or oppose his explanation for terrorist acts? Why might jihadists want to overthrow certain Muslim governments? Drive Israel out of the Middle East? If you don't know how might you find out? 

Bush says that they hate us because we stand in the way of what they want. And this is kinda true, but, nothing we've done with our government has really interfered with them, just those they don't like. Jihadists might want to overthrow certain Muslim governments because they are not with them with their idea of the world. And they'd want to drive Israel out of the Middle East for much of the same thing...
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3. Even more years have passed since Bin Laden's harsh critique of the United States. What knowledge and evidence do you have to support, add to, amend, or oppose that critique.

Bin Laden says that we have hate them them, tried to help the Jews, and killed them, he actually used Massacre as the word. Now, from their point of view, I could see how they would think that, however we live in a time where two wrongs don't make it right (neither do two lefts). They may think we caused them harm, but does that make it okay to kill people who haven't done anything.

4. According to Wright, what has led young men in Arab countries to find martyrdom attractive?


Sadly he says that it's because their bored, well more than that. Young men need something to do, some sort of entertainment but there isn't any for them. Anger, humiliation, and resentment led them to do violent things to fill in the lack of entertainment.

5. According to polling in Muslim countries, how popular is Al Qaeda? Why?

  A lot of them , or a least a big majority, don't support it or agree with it. They don't because one they don't care for the injuring or killing innocent people.