This week in Global Issues we focused on the subject of ISIS and other terror organizations. Starting on Monday we talked about the general term ‘terrorism’. I learned about some of the reasons why people do terror acts, and the difference between Freedom Fighter and Terrorists. It’s very interesting how people always seem to get these two terms mixed up, or they think that they mean the same thing. The truth is that Freedom Fighters protect civilians and want to overthrow a leadership, or oppressors. Terrorist don’t care for human lives, and will happily discard life as long as it brings them closer to their goal. On tuesday we started to talk about ISIS, and how they were formed from Al Qaeda. We watched a video about the founder, and first leader of ISIS. His name was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. As a kid he grew up in poverty, and oppression, and eventually found himself in prison where he was introduced to radicalism and came up with the idea of ISIS. A really interesting fact that the video revealed was that at first Osama Bin Laden turned Abu Musab al-Zarqawi away because he thought that he was only a lowlife thug. Wednesday was very interesting for we went in depth about interrogation techniques and whether they are torture or not. In my opinion, based on the videos that I watched and the knowledge that I already pertained on this issue, I think that some of the methods they used were torture. For example water boarding, which is a method where they take a cloth and put it over the person's mouth, then drown them by pouring water over their the towels. Watching the videos, it just seems so inhumane, and disgusting that we as a cultured people would be brought down to the low level of terrorists. After we finished talking about these methods, and the moral issues with implementing them we moved on to Osama Bin Laden and his involvement in 9/11. Everybody already has the basic understanding of what happened on that terrible day, so we focused more on how Osama Bin Laden was able to hide for so long. I think that he wasn’t forced out of hiding sooner was because of how loyal the people that he kept around him were. The only reason that he was found out was because one of his messengers slipped up and accidentally used a URL at an internet cafe. Today we started a movie called Zero Dark Thirty, which almost perfectly projects the events that led from the 9/11 attacks, to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. I think that it is pretty good so far, and shows a pretty good perspective of the interrogators, and how it messes with their lives. I really like learning about ISIS, because it’s a very important issue in our world today, and it feels really good when you are able to intelligently talk about this problem in adult conversations. Overall I’m really enjoying this class and can’t wait to learn about more issues dominating our world today.
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Mr. Klak
3/26/2017 08:11:23 am
This was a good topic for you to write about. I think putting what you have learned into your own words will really solidify it for you. Nice job on this. Your usage unit is #6. Thanks for sharing this.
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