RE: To Many

RE:  Concerned with public education – Yes, as I mentioned in an earlier posts, I hadn’t heard of any of these scholars until I took this class.  And it would seem that these people are and have been very influential to society even beyond the Muslim World.  I wish they would have been incorporated at some point into my education.  However, I also think its fair to say that the same can be said for the educational systems in most other parts of the world.  We are taught to view the world through the eyes of our own culture.

Re:  To career fair and response to career fair.  I’m sure that I am going to catch some heat for this, but I think that the immediate response by the non-Muslim segment of the American public was if not justifiable, certainly understandable.   Of course, not all terrorists are Muslim or of Middle Eastern descent, but the 9/11 hijackers certainly were.  I think it was a natural reaction by a nervous population that resulted in the misunderstandings that we saw.  You are correct though, it is the responsibility of the media  to be informative and take the lead in dispelling the ridiculous notions that ‘muslims are not americans’ and that the words muslim/terrorist/Islam are interchangeable.

Rumsfeld is also aware that our professor’s name is Omer Mozaffar and not Emir Mozaffar.  I was simply acknowledging Omer Mozaffar’s intellectual superiority.

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MOZAFFAR – Mozaffar asks Rumseld and others what the responsibilities are of the media.  Mozaffar would assert that the media itself is not beholden to any responsibilities.  Ideally it would be or should be, but in a free society, the media is whatever the producers make it to be.  I’m saying, it’s a business that will sell whatever people will buy.  Any thoughts.

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