Al-Qaeda

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Examines the movitvation of the terrorist group. The group's attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) from a social-psychology perspective. Islamic religious rejections of Western cultural values. Views of theorists regarding alienation of fundamentalist Islam from secular American culture. Conmingling of religion and politics of Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

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"This research examines the motivation of the group known as Al-Qaeda to attack the World Trade Center from the perspective of social psychology. The research will set forth theoretical aspects of the encounter between Western culture and religiously-based rejections of its values, with special emphasis on the role of psychosocial and moral certainty in acting on such rejections, and then discuss how these theories can be used to interpret the values and motives informing the events of September 11, with a view toward identifying the social psychology of responses to the sponsors of those events and forecasting likely consequences to Al-Qaeda on their account.
At the core of Weber's analysis of what he refers to as religious "rejections" of the world is the concept of rationality or rationalism, the name he gives to an attitude whereby a ..."

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