Compare And Contrast Bin Laden And Osama Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi and Osama Bin Laden would appear to be complete opposites at first glance. Gandhi, a wise respected man, advocated peace and selflessness, while Bin Laden used a perverse call to religious duty in advocating murder and violence; however these political powerhouses were much more similar than many people believed. Although they’re political approaches varied greatly, these two men shared many characteristics such political views, being strong charismatic people, highly influential figures that thousands of men and women believed in, being killed during their quest of united peoples and peaceful homelands under their peoples rule. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in the Indian state of Gujarat, where he lived until he left

Gandhi’s passive resistance of British rule was sparked by unjust taxes and acts placed on India by Parliament after World War I. As part of his peaceful non-cooperation movement for home rule, Gandhi stressed the importance of economic and political independence for India from Western culture. With the political and law background he had, Gandhi became invested in the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress Party), in which he turned the independence movement into a massive organization, leading refuses of British institutions including schools and legislatures and boycotts of British manufacturers. Gandhi terminated these movements due to violence, and in March of 1922 British authorities arrested Gandhi and tried him for sedition. He refrained from active participation in politics for many years until 1930, in which he launched a new civil disobedience campaign against Parliament’s tax on salt, which greatly

He had a privileged, cosseted upbringing, educated in Jiddah and joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. However, for bin Laden, Islam was more than religion and after seeing the strong influences and building of Western culture in the Middle East; he began following a radical Islamist scholar Abdullah Azzam believing that all Muslims should take up arms in a holy war to create a single Islamic state. In 1979, Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan soon after bin Laden joined the resistance. Although not a fighter, Osama bin Laden used his strong connections to gain support from Afghan rebels. Bin Laden encouraged people from all over the Middle East to be a part of the Afghan jihad. After enough support and cooperation bin Laden established Al- Qaida which served as a global recruitment network and provided his soldiers with training and supplies. Bin Laden’s group went on from military campaigns to acts of terrorism on western cultural areas, one of the worst being the attack on the infidel, the United States, on September 11th 2001. For years, the United States attempted to terminate Osama bin Laden, and in 2011 a Navy Seal team found and shot him to death (“A Biography of Osama”