South Asian Studies, Vol 33, No 2 (2018)

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9/11 as a Symbol of Terror: Responses and Actions

Bilal Mahmood, Dr. Abdul Majid

Abstract


The phrase of "the Global War on Terror" was adopted by the media. It was announced that Washington Administration would utilize all its resources to uproot terrorism and will punish all those who are responsible for the 9/11 tragedy. Both Islamic Jihadists and two Bush administrations have deployed spectacles of terror to promote their political agendas; that both deploy Manichean discourses of good and evil which themselves fit into dominant media codes of popular culture; and that both deploy fundamentalist and absolutist discourses

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