September 11, 2001 is the day that is infamously known for the worst terror attack done against the United States. With nearly 3,000 deaths, and over 8,000 injuries, this act of terror has had a heavy impact on not only the victims and their family and friends, but also on American politics. This terror attack was carried out by a group of muslim fundamentalists apart of a terrorist group known as Al-Qaeda. Nineteen of their members hijacked four planes--two of which crashed into the North and South Towers in New York City, one crashed into the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and the last one ended up crashing in Shanksville, Pennsylvania (Bergen, 2003). Not only did this attack personally affect thousands of lives, but it drastically changed how the American …show more content…
There was a sudden interest in how women are treated in the Islamic world, and people wanted to to learn how to combat the issues that allowed an attack like the one on 9/11 to occur (Abu-Lughod, 2002). This uptake in interest has lead to much more than just curiosity however, it has also lead to an increase hawkish foreign policy among American politicians. Support of the Iraq War was the quintessential policy position of war hawks back in 2003. This was a war that had support solely because of fear mongering done by the Bush administration that played on the fact that the American people were still in fear due to the recent terror attacks on 9/11. Not only did the fear mongering lead to hundreds of thousands civilian deaths and thousands of American soldier deaths in the preemptive war, but it changed how some Americans view people from the Middle East (Ahmad, 2017). This has also led to some Christian Americans believing that Muslims, or those who they think are Muslim, are a threat to the American way of