9/11
• Began as a hijacking operation by 19 Arab
militants
• Hijacked 4 planes
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Flight 11: Hit the WTC north tower
Flight 175: Hit the WTC south tower
Flight 77: crashed into the Pentagon
Flight 93: crashed in the fields near Shanksville,
Pennsylvania
• Took 2,750 lives
• Within weeks President George W. Bush
declared war against terrorism.
Terms to know:
• Terrorism- War on Terrorism- new style of
warfare
• Muslim, Islam, Islamism Islamic
Fundamentalism- Strict interpretation of Laws
of koran and
• Sharia- Islamic book of laws- non education of
women, separation of women and men,
subservience of women, no western influence,
no smoking, drinking, eating pork, gambling,
returning to traditional Islamic CULTURE
• Secular- non religious governments
• Middle East-Most ISLAMIC nations have NO
DEMOCRACY- kingdoms, dictators
Who & Why?
• Social, political, economic causes…
• The Islamic worlds anger, despair and
frustration towards the West and our foreign
policy..
• Fundamental Islamic beliefs see Western
Judeo- christianity as influencing and altering
Islam--• BELIEFS OF Islamic fundalmentalism such as Al
Qaeda is to.. END WESTERN INFLUENCE and
restore Islamic religion and government to
muslim nations
Al- Qaeda
• Meaning "The Base" is a global
militant Islamist organization founded
by Osama bin Laden
• Formed in the late 1980s in Pakistan
• It seeks to rid Muslim countries of what seems
to be a “Western” influence and replace their
governments with fundamentalist Islamic
regimes.
FLIGHT 93
FLIGHT 11
Hit the WTC north tower
FLIGHT 175
Hit the WTC
south tower
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