Globalization: the integration of economic, political, and cultural systems across the globe

Criticism of Globalization: larger nations and corporations out-muscle smaller and poorer nations and businesses

The world was globalized, meaning:• technology (fax/cell/email/internet) made communicating with someone in India as

easy as someone next door.• currencies mixed, businesses merged, and new businesses boomed (Yahoo, Google,

and later, Facebook).

Globalization:

The World Shrinks

This time period is sometimes referred to as the Information Age, or Communications Age, when lightning fast communication is the key to success.

Information is the new gold.

Globalization:

The World Shrinks

1990’s:• a newly-freed Eastern Europe, meant millions of new consumers• the personal computer was standard in most Western homes• the internet was spreading rapidly, leading to businesses and new

models for success

Globalization:

The World Shrinks

2000’s:• BRIC nations emerging: Brazil, Russia, India, China

Globalization:

The World Shrinks

Globalization Effects:Jobs relocate (known as outsourcing) to cheaper labor markets

Globalization Effects:Large corporations overtake smaller markets

Globalization Effects:Industrialized nations must compete with emerging countries for jobs and innovations

Globalization’s Dark Side:

Terrorism

Global Terrorism Meets the 21st Century

Terrorism’s Attributes:• Political goals• Civilian Targets• Goal is to kill - but beyond that, to instill fear in the population• Hope for a drastic change in behavior by the targets of the attack

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So WHO is the bad guy?

We often hear who it’s NOT.We know it’s NOT all Muslims.

So, who is it then?

And if we cannot answer this question, how can the enemy be defeated?

Can you win a war in which you cannot even name your enemy?

“Why do they hate us?”

“Why do they hate us?”

This is the question Americans, Westerners, ask...“Surely there is something we can do to make

the hate go away?”

…or is there?

Perhaps there’s a group that will never accept another group. Perhaps not every group has been Enlightened.

Perhaps not every group wants to .

Obviously, most Muslim people are accepting and enlightened and coexist, but there is a strain that derives from this faith that never modernized…and has no interest in it - except in weaponry.

“Why do they hate us?”

Seems like everyone has an answer – looking for a rational reason for an irrational act. It’s the Iraq War!…but before there was an Iraq War, there was Islamic terrorism.

It’s our troops in the Middle East!…but before there were troops in the Middle East, there was Islamic terrorism.

It’s our liberal policies on homosexuality, and synagogue next to mosque next to church, and our sexualized advertising, and our liberated women……but before any of this, there was Islamic terrorism.

It’s Israel!…but before there was Israel, there was Islamic terrorism.

It’s oil!…but before the industrial revolution, there was Islamic terrorism.

So what do Extremist Islamic Radicals want?

Caliphate refers to the era of Islam's ascendancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century. It is sometimes used as a substitute for world conquest or Islam’s global rule.

There was a time that Islam, with its advances in math and sciences, ruled much of the

known world…

Holy wars took place between Christians and Muslims in Europe. The Ottoman Empire’s reach into Europe was at its peak in the 17th century. A Polish General rescued Western Europe at the Gates of Vienna from Turk conquering.

European (ie Christian) Armies finally forced the Turks (Ottomans) back from the 1683…

The date the Muslim armies were beaten back by the Christians was…

September 11.…1683.

BUT What about America???“Why do they hate US?”

It’s the Iraq War!…but before there was an Iraq War, there was Islamic terrorism.

It’s our troops in the Middle East!…but before there were troops in the Middle East, there was Islamic terrorism.

It’s our liberal policies on homosexuality, and synagogue next to mosque next to church, and our sexualized advertising, and our liberated women……but before any of this, there was Islamic terrorism.

It’s Israel!…but before there was Israel, there was Islamic terrorism.

It’s oil!

…but before the industrial revolution, there was Islamic terrorism.

So…how far back does it go for the United States?

2001? 1951? 1901? 1851?...

…try 1785!

Thomas Jefferson: Owner of a Koran ; At War with Extremist Islam

• President Jefferson was a very well-read, and even owned a copy of the Koran.

• As president, merchant ships, which had used British protection before the Revolutionary War to trade with Morocco, were attacked and looted by extremists – (they were preventing trade with moderate Muslims!)

• Captured Americans were enslaved; ransoms were paid and ignored

• TJ sent naval vessels to protect American trade ships.

• After detaining some American ships, the new U.S. Navy (and modern Marines) won victories in Tripoli and the port city of Derna. Eventually, the attacks on U.S. ships were stopped.

Trivia: TJ’s Koran was used by Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, for his swearing in ceremony in 2007.

So those who say colonialism or Western dominance justifies terrorism are misguided.

These tactics go back centuries, before America was the ‘big, bad’ superpower.

Osama bin Laden

• stemming from a wealthy family, becomes a leader of anti-Western forces, when America comes to the defense of Saudi Arabia against Saddam Hussein in 1990

• Saudi citizenship is revoked; U.S. troops are invited to stay in Saudi Arabia to defend that oil-rich nation

• flees to Sudan, where he forms Al-Queda, raising money and training for bombings; expelled from Sudan

• Settles in Afghanistan under Taliban protection• Declares war (fatwa) on the West, including

civilians in 1996

Read: Israel must die

Protected by USA

That’s just about the entire free world

1990’s: Terror Goes Global…

Civilian Targets, including weekly attacks in Israel, became the norm.

Here, a Sbarro’s Pizza restaurant in Tel Aviv was attacked, killing 15.

Here, night spot in Bali, Indonesia is attacked, killing 202. Nearly half were were Australians.

1993: World Trade Center (NYC, USA)

1996: Khobar Towers (Saudi Arabia)

1998: Two U.S. Embassies in Africa (Kenya and Tanzania)

2000: USS Cole (Persian Gulf)

These do not include smaller attacks, and almost daily suicide attacks in Israel.

September 11, 2001

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