Which, of course, would be neither at Ground Zero nor is it a mosque.  But
the loudest protesters seem to have overlooked that.  Go figure...

Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Helweg-Larsen, Marie <[email protected]
> wrote:

> It seems that there are lots of lessons/topics for a psychologist to
> discuss in class with respect to the current 'islamaphobia'. Of course such
> a discussion could be structured around social psychological work on
> prejudice and discrimination but also emotions in general. This author
> suggests that fear and not prejudice is the cause of opposition to the
> Not-at-Ground-Zero Mosque.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/opinion/05kristof.html?src=me&ref=general
> Marie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Palij [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 15:08
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Cc: Mike Palij
> Subject: [tips] They Too Died That Day
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> An article in the NY Times focuses on one family that deals with
> their grief over the loss of a father and husband in the 9/11 attack
> on the World Trade Center.  How they have dealth with the attack
> and the aftermath should give us and, if we share with our students,
> pause.  See:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/nyregion/10muslim.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all
>
> The fact that the family is Muslim would be incidental except for
> the recent madness manifesting itself in U.S. religious and political
> circles.  I wonder what critical thinking lessons psychologists will
> teach about this madness?
>
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
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