Project Park 51 and History

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 = 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)