There are over eleven years the world watched so perplexed the collapse of the famous Twin Towers, the Word Trade Center after two consecutive shocks commercial aircraft. This was not a mere crash - what many may have thought after the shock of the first plane - but the execution of a plan led by Osama Bin Laden. Summing up the two attacks on the towers, the attack on the Pentagon and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on the same day, about three thousand people died. Since that morning of September 11, 2001, not only the history of the United States, but around the world, would never be the same.
There was another attack in the same proportions as those of September 11, and Al-Qaeda actually weakened with the death of Bin Laden. But that does not mean, unfortunately, that other terrorist events imprint not occur. After all, how the United States intervened only increased its negative image for the East, which may allow for some, the discourse of radical and fundamentalist groups make more sense than ever. Still, one can think of a less pessimistic assessment when looking at the "Arab Spring" (Political Revolution that has transformed regimes like Egypt and Libya), since the young East would be realizing the importance of political struggle, losing interest up for radical action and violence so characteristic of religious extremism, which could decrease supporters to fundamentalist groups. Thus, fewer young people would be interested in becoming suicide pilots in the name of Allah and nationalism, but other possibilities including fighting.
By: Luísa Mattuella Frá
