Project Park 51 and History

by Presenter Chaerin and Research Assistant Anjana

Discussion of a current issue involving a historical event

CrusadeSeries of holy wars by Christian states of Europe

(1076)

Causeconflicts with Muslims in the Middle EastCity of Jerusalemthreats of the Turks

Resultcultural tension between Christians and Mus-

lims

Christianity VS Islam – Ancient His-tory

September 11th, 2001by Al-QaedaIraq, Afghanistan, Islamic culture = terrorists

9/11 – Modern History

9/11 attack and American view on the Muslims

Exaggerated ter-rorist attacks

Rare contact with the Muslim cultureDifficult to rectify

misconcep-tion

Media coveragePolitical and cul-

tural leaders’ influences

Islam encourages violence, poll re-sult

Muslim = Terror-ist

Before After

Community CenterSharif El GamalOpen for everyone, re-

gardless of religion and ethnicity

20% of the building de-voted to Muslim prayer room

Project 51

ReasonInductive reasoningHasty generalizationAd hominemFalse dilemma

Emotion

Ways of Knowing

Perception

LanguageStereotypeLabeling Emotionally laden words (terrorist)

Ways of Knowing (continued)