9/11• Began as a hijacking operation by 19 Arab

militants • Hijacked 4 planes – 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 11Hit the WTC north tower

FLIGHT 175

Hit the WTC south tower

FLIGHT

77