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Students instructed to write essay on 9/11 from terrorists’ perspective
The College Fix ^ | March 27, 2017 | Nathan Rubbelke

Posted on 03/27/2017 10:06:14 AM PDT by kevcol

A recent assignment in an international studies course at Iowa State University asked students to write a historical account of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from the perspective of Al-Qaeda.

“Write a paper that gives a historical account of 911 from the perspective of the terrorist network. In other words, how might Al-Qaeda or a non-Western historian describe what happened,” stated the assignment, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.

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TOPICS: Education; Military/Veterans; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: 911; binladen; iowastate; islam; muslims; terrorism; universities; wot
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1 posted on 03/27/2017 10:06:14 AM PDT by kevcol
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2 posted on 03/27/2017 10:06:36 AM PDT by kevcol
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Over the years, Progressives have taken over the education system from elementary to college level and this is what it is now costing our Republic.


3 posted on 03/27/2017 10:10:02 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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I would refuse to comply. I'd take an F for the project if pushed.

Or, you could have some fun with it. Write it in all Arabic...with plenty of non sequiturs and spelling errors. And then perfume it with camel dung.

4 posted on 03/27/2017 10:12:11 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: kevcol

Are they able to use the papers from students on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese point of view? Or perhaps the Rape of Nanjing vs mussie slaughter of Christian kids by tossing them into a bread kneading machine.


6 posted on 03/27/2017 10:13:20 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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Actually, this would be fairly easy. You’d assume a person who is baked up on narcotics....unable to comprehend the world in any fashion....hyped on a fake religion....inserting ‘jihad’ into every 12th phrase, and blame the liberal American education system for creating an unfair slant against you.


7 posted on 03/27/2017 10:14:28 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Okay, as long as next week, they are assigned to write about the Bath School massacre from Kehoe’s perspective.


8 posted on 03/27/2017 10:14:35 AM PDT by Cboldt
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"You’d assume a person who is baked up on narcotics....unable to comprehend the world in any fashion....hyped on a fake religion....inserting ‘jihad’ into every 12th phrase, and blame the liberal American education system for creating an unfair slant against you."

Durka, durka, Mohammed jihad, durka, durka ...

9 posted on 03/27/2017 10:18:29 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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Oh I would get an F for sure, but what I wrote would be very very instructive. I’d be sure to mention all about the real Islam that everyday mooselimbs truly believe and what barbarians mooselimbs are in all its barbaric, violent 7th century attitudes, what Islam views the world should be like. Very instructive indeed and for sure, I’d get a massive F if not kicked out of class - for writing the truth.


10 posted on 03/27/2017 10:18:34 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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I can do that!

kill kill kill kill
Murder murder murder murder
Hate hate hate hate

Repeat until minium number of words is met.


11 posted on 03/27/2017 10:19:47 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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“I’m a poor, stupid, Son of a Bitch, who believes that if I kill a bunch of people my Imam says are bad, I will get to spend eternity boinking a bunch of virgins.

My Imam, who knows everything, told me I would get extra virgins if I blew up these two towers!

Why my Imam doesn’t want to get some virgins for himself, I’ll never know. Maybe the guy is not as smart as I am.

Here I go! KABOOM!”

There. An honest truthful report on 9/11 from the point of view of the attackers. Where’s my ‘A’


12 posted on 03/27/2017 10:20:57 AM PDT by RepRivFarm ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
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I would describe 72 virgins in vivid detail.


13 posted on 03/27/2017 10:21:26 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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How does one get inside minds which are warped by a hatred and devoted to evil?


14 posted on 03/27/2017 10:22:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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I don’t actually mind the assignment. Winning requires that you understand the enemy and what motivates them. I don’t see the assignment as supporting the terrorist beliefs, just recognizing what those beliefs are.


15 posted on 03/27/2017 10:23:34 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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I think I would have a VERY good time with this!

ML/NJ

16 posted on 03/27/2017 10:23:36 AM PDT by ml/nj
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I would have no problem writing from that perspective and question the value of it if it was not part of a larger paper that allowed me to talk about the fallacies of thought that went into the perspective I had just written about...the assignment is not a bad one but in the hands of the teacher I imagine that it is more a path of indoctrination rather then an exploration of what goes into the thought process of terrorists.


17 posted on 03/27/2017 10:25:49 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (in)
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Students were encouraged to use their imagination and make their papers as interesting as they’d like in the 500-word minimum assignment, and that there’s no correct answer, “just your ability to look at what we consider a heinous action from other perspectives.”

This is a great assignment! From the perspective of liars and pertpetual, whining victims, anything goes. I would have enjoyed an assignment like this.

The Great Satan... blah blah blah. Joos... blah blah blah... anger that the sun rose, anger that the sun set...

18 posted on 03/27/2017 10:25:52 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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If you refused to comply, you’d get a F. But if you did comply, you’d be Islamophobic and would be expelled.


19 posted on 03/27/2017 10:25:54 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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what next? Students ordered to write essay on gang rape form the perspective of muslim men?


20 posted on 03/27/2017 10:26:48 AM PDT by Bob434
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