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Terrorism : Terrorism And The Perspectives Of Terrorism

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Death and injured people are in the prayers of all. Tears create a river and fear enters the air. As a country that is highly known everywhere there are many attacks that affect how other and yourself see the country. The violent attacks are able to show us the different views over terrorism.Through these many views, we are able to see how American society believe that a terrorist is classified through their origin and race rather than their actions. Terrorists are depicted as dangerous people and mainly considered to be from the middle-east. Throughout the years when the media covers an attack if it was an individual from the middle east then they are terrorists which has led America to believe that terrorists are only from those countries. As Merriam Webster defines it, a terrorist is specifically a person who uses violence against the state or the public as a politically motivated means of attack or coercion. The media have created the stereotype where they believe that terrorist only come from the middle-east and not the home front influencing many to believe this as well as they keep blaming them. For example, there was an attack a couple months ago in New York that involved Sayfull Saipov a 29-year-old male from Uzbekistan who intentionally drove a rented truck into cyclists and pedestrians on a bike path in Lower Manhattan (Levenson, 1). The attack ended when Sayfull crashed which resulted in eight people dead and almost a dozen injured (Levenson, 1). The attack

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