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Theme : radicalisation
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The 'turban effect'
A recent experiment, soon to be published in the journal of experimental social psychology, offers provocative evidence that Islamophobia operates in the dark recesses of our unconscious. In the experiment, participants played a computer simulation and were asked to shoot individuals carrying weapons and to spare those unarmed. Participants were more likely to shoot unarmed individuals who were wearing turbans or hijabs. More interestingly, they were unaware and incredulous that they were doing so. The author of the experiment, Christian Unkelbach, a visiting scholar at Australia's University of New South Wales, has called this "the turban effect" and blames one-sided media reports.
from : charlieedwards
9th July 2008
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Why it's uncool to be an Islamic extremist
Like terrorism itself, fighting terrorism is a creature of fashion. The latest on the catwalk is ‘countering extremism'.
It is yielding negligible dividends. In some respects it is even counter-productive. It proposes cures for the flimsy rationale for people blowing themselves and others up – young Muslims being angry and liking the idea of al-Qaeda because of real or imagined inadequacies of Western foreign policy, discrimination in the job market, struggles to balance multiple identities. And so on.
from : clairecoulier
16th May 2008
