My topic of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 relates to the essential unit question “How has intolerance affected the world?”  Moreover, I believe that will be taught in this year’s curriculum, though I am not certain of this.  The primary intolerance demonstrated in the 9/11 tragedy is that of Osama Bin Laden.  It has changed world in various other instances also, and always for the worse.  Though he did have his motives, they were selfish and discriminating and in no possible way making it morally acceptable to plan the near massacres that he did.  He had no tolerance to any religion other than his own, and he was willing to brutally murder others because of it.  Over 2,000 American citizens lost their lives in the calamitous attack on the World Trade Center.  He would often kill people of his own country who did not share his religion.  Soon, he obtained many followers and spurred a movement which changed the world as we knew it.  Consequently, so many more innocent people died in addition to those in the twin towers on September 11, including the bombings of the U.S. embassies and the Pentagon.  Bin Laden was an extremist of the Islamic religion, applying it to every area of life and decision he made.  After the defeat of the Soviet invasion in the middle-east, he realized that he could practice Pan-Islamism, in which Muslim people unite to a single Islamic state through Jihad, or holy war.  Many supported his belief of Pan-Islamism, which eventually led to Osama bin Laden’s organization of Al-Qaida, an international network of terrorists, all of whom have no tolerance for the dominant United States, or any religion other than Islam, especially Christian and Jewish.  This wild hatred for the United States, and virtually everyone else, was what implemented so much bombing and killing in our world (of course before bin Laden himself was killed).  The intolerance of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida as a whole has ultimately changed our world for the worse, though it may have brought the rest of us together in the process of mutual defense and resentment of bin Laden.  

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