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Question 1

--Do the small (or big) injustices that happen to Zeitoun and Kathy throughout the book make you notice racism around you more than you did before? Why or why not?

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Background information

Islam: the religion that is connected and completed by God and Muhammad

Muslim: What the people who believe and affiliate with the religion of Islam.

Grant Miller

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Background Information

Attacks on 9/11: 4 planes that were involved. -Two crashed into the twin towers

-One into the pentagon

-One was aimed at the White House but was overthrown by the passengers and crashed in a field.

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Background Information

-Hijackers of the plane were affiliated with Al-Qaeda and were Muslims.

-Thus started the stereotype that all Muslims are affiliated with Al-Qaeda

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Question 2

9/11 had major impacts on the United States and our nationalism. Some people would say that it united our nation, others would say it tore it apart.

--What would you say? Why?

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Link to Video: PBS: How 9/11 shaped the lives of Muslims

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32eeDoXTnqw&feature=youtu.be

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Religious issues

In the video, we see americans claiming muslims to be dangerous to their community. They also say that if the mosque is built they will be one step closer to taking over the american government. They also protest the building of the new mosque saying that if built, the muslims will then try to enforce saril law upon them. The muslim mosque also does not have near the funding the neighbored christian churches do. Hate and distrust was displayed towards the religious group when american protesters crowded the public square to go against the building of the muslim mosque.

Robert Adams

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Question 3

In the video, the people of Murfreesboro were split by the creation of a Mosque. People against it claimed that it was a place to plot against America, and would be a public danger. --Where do you think these claims originated from? Why?

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Muslims and media after 9/11

After 9/11 the view of muslims and their culture changed significantly. Hate crimes toward muslim americans increased by 1,700 percent. Many Muslim americans were blamed and labeled as terrorists despite their own personal affiliation with 9/11. Muslims were met with negative comments and rude racial and religious slurs. Muslim children at public schools were also bullied.

Robert Adams

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Question 4

-- Do you think that we can prevent or possibly eliminate racial profiling and religious prejudice? Why? Why not?

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Zeitoun stereotype examples

“Some workers left, thinking that by working under the Zeitoun Painting rainbow they would be presumed to be gay, that somehow the company managed to employ only gay painters.”-page 11

“Since the attacks in New York, he would say, everytime a crime was committed by a muslim, that person’s faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance.” -page 37

The preacher cut her off. “She was looking to Islam!” he said with a sneer. “She was considering--and here he paused-- “the worship of Allah!” And with that, he made a snorting, derisive sound, the sort of sound an eight-year-old boy would make on a playground.” -page 66

Daisy Gusman

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Examples from Zeitoun Book

“There was new practice in vogue at the time, favored by adolescent boys or those who thought like them: sneak up behind a women wearing a headscarf, grab it and run.” -page 45

“Why are we here?” he asked a soldier.

“You guys are al Qaeda,” the soldier said. -page 212

“At West Jefferson High School, a tenth grader of Iraqi descent had been repeatedly harassed by her history teacher. He had called Iraq a ‘third-world country,” had worried that the student would “bomb us” if she ever returned to Iraq.” -page 45

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Question 5

-- What are steps that we can take to reduce stereotyping and prejudice?

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Bibliography

-Zeitoun Book

-youtube;PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32eeDoXTnqw&feature=youtu.be