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Al Arabiya: Politics and Racism, behind “Manhattan Mosque” Controversy

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Ali Younes

The firestorm that erupted against building a Muslim cultural center in downtown Manhattan is a political issue. The Bill of Rights and the constitutional arguments aside, this case is serving several groups as vehicle to score political victories in the upcoming mid-term congressional elections. For the Republican Party and the neocons and people like newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin the real issue is not the September 11 victims or their families and, of course, not the first amendment or freedom of religion in this country. The real issue is politics.

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The Making of a Mosque Mess

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 17, 2010; 9:36 AM

On Dec. 8, 2009, the New York Times published a story about a planned development in lower Manhattan:

“The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest beginnings point to a far grander vision: an Islamic center near the city’s most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero’s more unexpected and striking neighbors.

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AP: New MTV show attempts to tackle school stereotypes

Saturday, July 31st, 2010
By ALICIA RANCILIO (AP)

NEW YORK — A new show on MTV attempts to help students look past school stereotypes.

Each episode of “If You Really Knew Me” focuses on a different school, where students go through a program called Challenge Day. They share their experiences with each other in exercises designed to cut down on bullying and gossiping.

The cameras follow five students before, during and after the program.

One student who was filmed, Leiken (LIK’ in) Poppino, says the experience “changed people for the better.”

Poppino says her school, Freedom High School in Oakley, Calif., had a “miraculous change” for about a week after Challenge Day last year. After that, students who took part worked to keep the momentum going.

“If You Really Knew Me” airs Tuesdays at 11 p.m. Eastern.

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Vedi Vitro Vivo: Excellent questions for classes on Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Possible exam/study questions

  1. List and explain  and give an example the four types of groups
  2. Explain an online group and how it has affected you
  3. Differentiate between Web forums and mailing lists
  4. Differentiate between informal and formal norms
  5. Explain the role in your life of injunctive norms (descriptive, explicit, implicit, subjective, personal)
  6. Explain with examples
    1. Homogeneity
    2. In group bias
    3. Group pressure
  7. Describe and explain an incident involving the bystander effect
  8. Discuss the three areas of social influence ( conformity, compliance and obediance)

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Reuters : Obese kids more apt to be bullied, study confirms

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Obese children in grades 3 through 6 are more apt to be bullied by their classmates than children who are trim, regardless of their gender, race, social skills, or academic achievement, a study published today in Pediatrics shows.

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TOL.org: Demonization in Hungary, part II

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Jobbik’s strong showing in recent elections is more proof that when a democracy is sick, scapegoating makes good politics. by Michael J. Jordan 16 April 2010

MOSONMAGYAROVAR, Hungary | It hasn’t gone unnoticed in Europe that the real story of Hungary’s 11 April elections wasn’t just that the right-wing Fidesz party ousted the tiresome Socialists to return to power amid economic hardship. It was that Jobbik, a self-described “radical” party, strategically and successfully scapegoated the country’s large Roma and Jewish minorities to win 17 percent of the vote.

Not only did the number soar past the 5 percent threshold to enter parliament, it was triple the high-water mark achieved by an earlier Hungarian far-right party in 1998.

For the European Union, there ought to be concern that it also represents the greatest electoral triumph of any openly anti-minority party among the 10 ex-communist states that are its newest members.

This is bad for Hungary, which for years was a leading light amid the region’s post-1989 transition from dictatorship to democracy. I say this as a foreign correspondent sitting next door in Slovakia, but I also lived it first-hand in Budapest, from the mid- to late-1990s.

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The Mantle: Demonization, Hungarian-Style

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

by Michael J. Jordan

MOSONMAGYAROVAR, Hungary – The Hungarian restaurateur in a Harley Davidson jacket wants you to know he’s not a fascist. Nor a racist. And certainly no anti-Semite.

He has a Jewish friend, he says, and expresses sympathy for his Holocaust-surviving father.

“Zsuzsa!” he suddenly calls out to one of his restaurant workers – a Romani woman wearing a white cap, t-shirt and apron.

“How do you feel here?” he asks tenderly, touching her shoulder. “Does anyone bother you?”

“No, never!” she says, flashing a smile, but with a look of understandable bewilderment.

“That’s good,” he says. “Sorry to interrupt you.”

As she walks off, the restaurateur leans in, lowers his voice.

“And she’s one hundred percent Gypsy,” he says. “If I’m a Nazi, why would I hire Gypsies?”

With his anti-racist bona fides out of the way, the man dives back into the topic at hand.

“Why do we never hear about Slovak criminals, or German criminals, or Greek criminals,” he asks, “but we only hear about Gypsy criminals and Jewish criminals?”

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CNN: Pope’s preacher apologizes for trivializing Holocaust victims and victims of child abuse

Monday, April 5th, 2010

(CNN) — The pope’s personal preacher apologized Sunday for comparing fury over sexual abuse within the church to anti-Semitism.

“If, against my intention, I’ve hurt the Jewish people’s feelings and those of the victims of child abuse, I’m truly sorry and ask forgiveness,” the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa said in an interview published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

He emphasized that Pope Benedict XVI “not only did not inspire” the sermon that contained the comparison, but also “like everyone else, heard my words for the first time during the liturgy.”

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Huffington Post: The Other African Genocide – How the American Right Taught Africa to Hate Gays by Example

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

by David Ambroz

In 2004, the American political-religious Right, led by Karl Rove and President Bush used the matter of Gay marriage to rob Sen. John Kerry of the Presidency. It was a successful campaign that saw 11 states pass constitutional amendments against Marriage Equality. With America engaged in two wars, the political-religious right used the matter of gay marriage as a wedge issue to distract the country from the real problems it then and still faces. The success of the political-religious rights’ homophobic 2004 campaign was not lost on other would-be politicians around the world, and that has led to a new African Genocide against GLBT people.

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Beliefnet.org: Supreme Court to Weigh Limits of Kansas Church’s Hate Speech

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday (March 8) to decide whether the father of a fallen soldier can sue religious protesters for picketing at his son’s funeral with signs that read “Thank God for dead soldiers.”

The case will test the boundaries of the Constitution by weighing whether extreme speech that inflicts emotional pain — especially at sensitive venues such as memorials — should be protected by the First Amendment.

Members of Westboro Baptist Church, led by pastor and founder Fred Phelps in Topeka, Kansas, have protested at military funerals to express their belief that America is being punished for tolerance of homosexuality.

Westboro protestors traveled to Westminster, Md., to picket at the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who killed in combat in Iraq on March 3, 2006.

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