HIST 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 69: Hamid Karzai, Al-Qaeda, Sharia
Document Summary
U. s. was faulted by arabs for helping israel with palestinian terror-bombing. Causes for anti-americanism were more deep rooted than that. After ww1, ottoman empire (last of islamic states) was replaced in middle east by western- style, secular nation states. Fundamentalists decried modernism and corruption of the house of islam, the ancient islamic ideal of government through the koran and sharia law. Stationing of u. s. troops seen as another violation of lands. Some islamic extremists teach jihad, which is a holy war against jews and. Economic and political conditions made the middle east a recruiting ground for terrorists. First to bring attention was a truck-bombing of the world trade center in 1993, killed 6. In 1998, two u. s. embassies in kenya and tanzania were bombed, so the u. s. bombed al-qaeda camps in afghanistan and sudan. The al-qaeda leader osama bin laden fled to afghanistan and allied with the.
