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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Understanding Islam: teach-in at UNC
  • Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:16:23 -0400 (EDT)

you need not be from UNC to attend this forum
>
> Please circulate the following message and information flier within your
> departments:
>
> On Wed. Sept. 19th, the University Center for International Studies is
> organizing a forum on "Seeing Behind Stereotypes and the Veils of Anger:
> Understanding Islam". It will be held at 7:00 p.m. in room 1301 of the
> MacGraven-Greenberg Bldg, School of Public Health. Speakers include: Bruce
> Lawrence (Duke), Gholam-Abbas Tavassoli (Visiting Scholar from Tehran
> University), Rania Masri (Iraq Action Coalition), Burhan Ghanaymen and other
> members of the local Muslim community, and Chad Haines (UCIS).
>
> Attached is a flier for your information.
>
> Hate crimes against Muslims in the past few days across the country have
> been extensive. A mosque in Texas was shot-up, businesses have been
> vandalized, a woman wearing a hijab (head scarf) at NCSU was spat upon and
> physically harassed, and students here at Carolina have received countless
> phone and email threats. And, in great irony, a Sikh man was killed in
> Arizona. . . .
>
> The extent of racist and bigoted attitudes towards Islam and Muslims
> indicates that, even in good times, there is extensive misunderstanding of
> Islam, Muslims, and Muslim societies. This forum is an opportunity for us to
> come together as a community to learn and reflect upon what is going on
> around us and hopefully gain the necessary tools and insights to counter the
> affliction of bigotry.
>
> Chad Haines, Ph.D.
> Research Associate
> University Center for International Studies
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> 223 East Franklin Street, C.B. 5145
> Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
> (919) 962-5374
>

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  • Understanding Islam: teach-in at UNC, Paul Jones, 09/17/2001

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