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Ever since 9/11 the war on terrorism has become a crucial topic in our society. Government started spending billions of dollars to fight the war. Radical Muslim movements became a reason for the government to continue funding different military campaigns. However not all Muslim people should be blamed. There is a saying that there are no bad nations, there are bad individuals.

In the article “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving” by Lila Abu-Lughod discuses that media has a big influence on people’s opinion. Although, as Lila Aby-Lughod states media does not really discuses the crucial topic in understanding Muslim women, culture and especially beliefs. Lila also adds media gave a different representation of this war on terror. Somehow it became a question of saving and liberating. Media mostly concentrated on villainous Muslim terrorist but it does not really mention regular people who try to survive in this war. However, later on media started concentrating on Muslim women and on their culture. Muslim women were correspondingly used to justify the countless bombings. The reasoning behind it was simple because US government wanted to liberate women from the homes and give them an opportunity to be women and not fell afraid of punishment by Muslim men. Somehow, the war on terrorism turned into a fight for women’s rights. The reason was almost the same as it was before in a previous three hundred years that was used by colonizers. As we remember first colonizers, who stumbled upon indigenous people, wanted to “civilize them.” The similarity is pretty obvious. More privileged people want to make other’s people’s lives “better” even though not everybody wants that or even need that.

However, in the beginning of twenty first century countless lives were taken away. In addition to that, in the article we see that not everyone needs saving because even after rescuing women from Taliban control, women still decided to keep their burqas. Thus, the rescuing missions probably did not worth it since Muslim women strongly believe in their culture and beliefs.