My article exemplifies Smart’s worldviews analysis and cross-cultural differences since it embraces the two views of Christianity and Islamic religion. The article is multi-disciplinary because the attack on the United States Embassy is based upon historic data and previous actions of the United States, or so Al-Qaeda pronounces. The article is comparative in a sense that it has two different opinions as to who the blame should be considered on first. In regards to politics, the US government and the Yemen government are both involved. The people of Yemen and their sociological behaviors are being demoralized by the constant threat of attack, but science has enabled the military to increase their authority of finding terrorists at a faster rate.
The argument that is being presented in the article is that the Sunni insurgent group Al-Qaeda is responsible for the attack on the US Embassy in Yemen. The article states that the attack began at 9:15am on September 18, 2008, when the sound of automatic weapons began and brought Yahyah Mousa to his roof over looking the street outside the US embassy. Another civilian by the name of McCormack said the first vehicle exploded near a guard post in order to breach the perimeter, and then the second explosion was inside. The side that is being presented as the “righteous” is the US and Yemen because the entire article is sympathetic towards their losses and casualties. The way that the news is being reported does not follow the lines of Smart’s structured empathy. In the article it is clear that the US and Yemen groups are being presented as the righteous, but this does not necessarily mean that it is correct in the worldviews perspective. The motive for the attack could have multiple reasons as to why the supposed Al-Qaeda insurg ...