College Class Asks Students To Describe 9/11 "From The Perspective Of The Terrorist Network"
Fox News — 9/11 was bad. But let’s pretend it wasn’t.
That’s the challenge some International Studies students at Iowa State University faced in an assignment obtained by The College Fix.
“Write a paper that gives a historical account of 911 from the perspective of the terrorist network,” the project rundown stated. “In other words, how might Al-Qaeda or a non-Western historian describe what happened.”
The university defended the proposal for the 500-word minimum essay.
“As you can see, the assignment was in no way an attempt to diminish the tragic events of September 11, 2001,” an ISU spokesperson told The College Fix. “Nor was it designed to support the goals of Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.”
The spokesperson added: “This is similar to the vital work being performed in our nation’s diplomatic and intelligence operations, such as the Central Intelligence Agency, or the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.”
Alright gang please submit your papers on murdering 3,000 innocent people from the murderers’ perspective then immediately get to work on your next assignment, “A Holocaust Story, by the common Nazi.”
Seriously, what the fuck Iowa State? Look I get that trying to see different perspectives on things is important to more wholly understanding them. As someone that sees all sorts of shit at once I get it. But asking a class to write an entire essay on 9/11 from the terrorists’ perspective is insanely careless. You’re asking people to entrench themselves in the terrorist mindset for the worst terror attack in history, murdering 3,000 people, most of which were their fellow countrymen and women. This isn’t just some petty debate topic like having KFC defend the Patriots or a Nate thesis on how Young Pageviews is great at his job.
No, this is 9/11.
If a professor asked me to write 500 words on 9/11 from the perspective of al qaeda I’d tell him to go fuck himself. Or I’d simply submit hundreds and hundreds of harrowing tales from the event and see if he had the balls to give me a shitty grade.