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21st Century
On September 11, 2001, the most horrific attack on US soil since Japan's Pearl Harbor attacks in 1941 took place. A total of 4 planes were hijacked by foreign terrorists, in which 2 of the planes landed into the World Trade Center and the other 2 were respectively found in Virginia and Pennsylvania). This event marked the scope of the rest of 21st Century: A full-on war against terrorism. Immediately after the attacks, George W. Bush, the president of the US at the time, was set on finding the leader of Al-Qaeda and holding him responsible for his actions. The leader of Al-Qaeda was Osama bin Laden, son of a wealthy Saudi Arabian billionaire. He was the director of the atrocious 9/11 attacks, to which he was killed as a result of his devious acts in 2011. Though, his death did not bring the end of terrorism, unfortunately, as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria developed shortly afterwards. Although the US set a war on a certain type of people who claimed to adhere to the same religion as the terrorists did, the US were still able to defend the Muslims and allow the Muslims in the US to live in peace, vote and attend the same facilities as everyone else did. They were allowed to pray at the mosque without any interference and unnecessary, oppressive governmental surveillance. The US maintained distance from businesses and allowed businesses to flourish. [laissez-faire?]

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 * https://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/Islamic-State-in-Iraq-and-the-Levant/609554
 * https://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/September-11-attacks/394915