The passage I chose was when the terrorist attack was described. The terrorist attack was done by a Christian group and it killed a lot of people.
The article that relates to the attack is this one. It is about how Anders Breivik killed 79 people in a terrorist attack in Norway. Lo and behold, Breivik is also Christian.
In the book, the group "Sons of Jacob" uses their terrorist attack to gain control of the United States. Not cool. It is obvious that they had bigger plans with their attack. Breivik, on the other hand, did not really want to accomplish much in conjunction with his attack. He did, however, have a "Manifesto" which he published online the day of his attacks. He didn't like Islam, he supported Zionism, and oh, look, he opposed Feminism. The group in the book were really mean to women and they took away their rights and generally degraded them. So there's another parallel.
This passage relates to the real world in that we still have terrorist attacks. Heck, we had the Boston Bombings not too long ago.
The passage also relates to the real world in that the Sons of Jacob framed the attacks on Islam. There is a lot of this today, this Islamophobia. If you read some of the comments on Fox News article online it is pretty disgusting. What I am saying is that the Sons of Jacob capitalized on society's collective Islamophobia to gain power over the United States. It seems farfetched, but there sure is a lot of Islam fear and hate today.
The passage is relevant to society today in that we still have terrorist attacks and we have Islamophobia.
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