Islamic Terrorist, Pakistan, And Public Relations

On the day of September 11, 2001, the United States faced one of the most massive terrorist attacks in history, and responded with immediate action. After the attack on the Twin Towers, President George W. Bush passed the Patriot Act, which gave the government more opportunities to pursue terrorists through the use of technology, such as computer-enabled device-tracking systems (“The USA Patriot…”). President Bush stated, “This legislation is essential not only to pursuing and punishing terrorists, but also preventing more atrocities in the hands of the evil ones. This government will enforce this law with all the urgency of a nation at war” (“President Bush…” 4). In America, at this time, many were traumatized by the loss of fellow Americans, and were counting on the government to reassure their safety. If Bush had not intensified cybersecurity, there is a chance that another massive terror attack could have taken place and put the lives of men, women, and children in jeopardy. Bush claims that America has “seen the horrors terrorists can inflict” and that the country “may never know what horrors our country was spared by the diligent and determined work of our police forces, the FBI, ATF agents, federal marshals, Custom officers, Secret Service, intelligence professionals and local law enforcement

The Patriot Act was hastily passed just a month later October and it severely limited the privacy of Americans and gave unprecedented power to the government and private agencies to track innocent Americans, turning regular citizens into suspects.5 In addition, the great technological evolution and emerged of social media that occurred round the same time, and shortly thereafter, created the perfect storm for the emergence of the largely unregulated surveillance society that we live in today.6 The result is digitization of people’s personal and professional lives so that every single digital trace that people leave can be identified, stored, and aggregated to constitute a composite sketch of ourselves and its only getting worse. In 2008, passed the FISA Amendments Act, which expands the government’s authority to monitor Americans’ international communications, in addition to domestic communications.7 In short, after 9/11 the U.S is left with a national surveillance state, in which “the proliferation of government technology and bureaucracies that are able to acquire vast and detailed amounts of digital information about individuals with minimal or no judicial supervision and often in complete secrecy,” giving the government and corporations with access to the data that the government compiles the ability to single

When Carol told one of her friends she would be flying to Italy on September 11, 2017, her friend said, “Oh my gosh, you don’t want to fly on that day.” Many people remember that day and still think about it now, “it just doesn’t leave us.” “That seemed to be the start of terrorism in The United States.”

The history of terrorism is as old as humans’ willingness to use violence to affect politics. Terrorism can affect everyone, whether directly or indirectly. However, a group that is largely affected is immigrants, mainly due to the U.S. policies on Counter-Terrorism. These policies might protect our country, but they also indirectly lead to discrimination against immigrants. The U.S. policy on Counter-Terrorism causes unfair immigration laws, encourages social media to demonize foreigners, and creates an unfair society for immigrants to live in.

Additionally, data from internet will not be a good way to determine whether a person is a terrorist especially if that person has shown themselves critical of the Trump administration. This algorithm may classify them as terrorist simply because they don’t agree with current policies while clearly disagreeing on policy does not many a person a terrorist.

On December 2, 2015, Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook committed an act of terror, killing 14 people and injuring an additional 21 people. The couple was later linked to the terror group ISIS, prompting the FBI to attempt to gather information from Farook’s employer issued phone. The FBI pursued the US District Court of Los Angeles, which subsequently issued an order asserting Apple must provide “reasonable technical assistance” in unlocking the phone by providing three manners of assistance: allowing the government to enter more than 10 passcodes without the phone’s data being wiped, enabling automated entries rather than manual entries, and ridding of the gradually increasing delay system that occurs when multiple wrong

home mother. Co-workers of Farook never could have imagined that he and his with were Islamic extremists. Neighbors reported that the couple would be up at all hours in the night building items that look suspicious. Farook had no criminal history and passed a background check making it legal for him to purchase two handguns. The couple also became friends with a former neighbor that purchased two assault rifles and gave them to the couple. As Farook’s co-workers gathered for their holiday party on December 2, 2015 at one of the San Bernardino government buildings, Farook had made a brief appearance. After a few harsh words with one of the co-workers Farook left the party in a rage and returned shortly with his wife. The couple shot up the party with the assault rifles given to them by their former neighbor. Killing 14 people and injuring another 22. The couple fled. Four hours later the San Bernardino County Sheriffs located Farook and Malik near there townhome in Redlands, a shoot up ensued in the middle of the suburban neighborhood. Farook and Malik were both killed. The San Bernardino Attack could have been prevented if the federal government did more in-depth background checks on people moving to the country from areas of the world where terrorism runs rampant and the terrorist main objective is to kill Americans. The government also need to investigate why Americans with a Middle East ethnicity are traveling back and forth multiple times to those areas of the world. If

One of the factors that define what the experience of these incoming asylum seekers will be like is how the citizens of the welcoming country treat them. Therefore it is important to consider how after 9/11, the opinions of citizens towards immigration has changed. Gail Stewart talks about, how civilians were told that the perpetrators of the attacks were immigrants from the Middle East, who obtained legal visas; therefore it created a sense of discrimination in the face of civilians and policy makers. Stewart talks about the differing ideas of people. Some suggested that the country should go as far as, “keeping the borders closed” (Stewart, 2004). Meanwhile others feel like the whole idea of the US is based on welcoming immigrants, and “The greatest victory for Osama bin Laden, of course, would be if America lost faith in its openness" (Stewart, 2004). The road the government decided to take is requiring a much more detailed background check, for anyone seeking to immigrate to

On Dec. 2, 2015, two violent extremists opened fire at an office holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif., killing 14 and injuring at least 22 others. It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. It has been treated as the emergency situation that it truly is. Hundreds of investigators have been deployed from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. Dozens of people of interest have been interviewed, social networks have been scoured, no stone has been left unturned. On Thursday, a neighbor, Enrique Marquez, was arrested and charged with three federal crimes including providing material support to a terrorist, immigration fraud and making a false statement relative to the purchase of a firearm. The speed of the

Every year people from all over the world come to the United States for a myriad of reasons. Some to seek employment, some education, and others to seek safe haven from violence and oppression from foreign governments. Regardless of the reason, the beauty of the United States is that the protections afforded by the constitution apply to anyone within its territory. However, since the terrorist attack against the United States on September 11, 2001, the protections of the constitution have since become a blurred line. Legislation such as the Patriot Act, and methods in which law enforcement conduct operations to combat terrorism have pushed the limits of the constitution. Finding the balance of working within the confines of the constitution is a constant challenge. The growing challenge elicits the potential for legal, policy and ethical issues, which ultimately undermine the very purpose of what the constitution is intended to protect.

This case shows the relevance to the history of terrorism in the US by shedding light on just how well organized homegrown terrorism can be. This type of terrorism is harder to detect due to extremist having grown up or having been well assimilated here in the US. They are very familiar with the customs, language, and blend in easily all while staying under law enforcement radar.

Nowadays, making a parallel with the concern of Japanese sabotage during the Second World War, the fear of terrorism also seems to prevail over the concepts of the U.S. Constitution. The American Muslim community, by opening businesses, creating more jobs and bringing a fully new perspective of life, deserved to be considered a vital part of the American economy as well as of the entire society. Lately in the news, it was announced that many people of Muslim religion including green card holders were being detained on arrival into the United States. President Trump believes that Muslim countries send terrorists along with those who

The lingering effect of 9/11 had put many citizens in a frightened stage of “what could happen next?”. Four major lasting impacts on multiple citizens had been the ongoing wars, immigration and deportation, the friendly skies, and a mushrooming surveillance state. Less then a month after 9/11, the U.S. troops invaded afghanistan to make an attempt to get rid of Al-Qaeda. The ongoing wars from 9/11 keep proceeding into more fighting and more U.S. soldiers being deployed over seas, and either being killed or severly injured. The agency of the U.S. Immigration

It can be seen in other areas since 9/11 where many security measures America has added are justified and improve the state of all Americans’ safety, but some other practices and attitudes Americans have adopted are unfair, critical and paranoid. Islamophobia has greatly increased along with xenophobia in general it seems, which is why people like Donald Trump can convince people he would be an adequate president. The Xenophobia America has adopted and allowed to advance seems to be the primary reason why someone like Hema would be a “high threat”. The training’s examination of her seems to try too hard to make something wrong out of something that isn’t inherently wrong. As stated on the second page in the example picture shown “Foreign travel, even reported, gives foreign agents a chance to contact foreign intelligence services.” by this perspective arguably anyone leaving the country is a potential terror threat, but not everyone leaving the country to visit family is marked a high risk threat to security. As for her “divided loyalty” addressed in the same picture, one can’t be expected to agree with all the laws and policies of their country all the time. Opinions and free speech are central to America and should be able to be had and exercised by all its

Unfortunately, that was not the only case when people from other countries “were suspected of being linked to terrorism” and brought to trial privately (Fink, 2002). It is argued that the government could not afford to make such cases public since many strangers whose visas have already expired kept traveling from and to the United States and making financial transfers overseas. There was an issue raised why did not the government try