Inside Islam Radio Series
Produced by Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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We have a grant from the Social Science Research Council in New York City which is funded through the University of Wisconsin’s Global Studies center and all of the area centers of the Division of International Studies. It’s a very challenging project. The Social Science Research Council expressed concern that many Americans seem to be ignorant of Islam and fearful of Islam in the years since 9/11. So they have given a number of universities the challenge of sharing the global knowledge base that the university has with the American public in the hope of diffusing the fearmongering and opening up the American mind, one might say, to a more nuanced and more pluralistic notion of who Muslims are, of what they believe, and of the whole idea of Islam as something that is very present in American life as well as throughout the world. So if you notice that we are not focusing on radical Islam it’s because that’s what the media usually focuses on. We’re trying to get away from the monolithic notion that Muslims are all radicals and Islam is only about jihad. (Jean Feraca, 16 February 2009) |
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Last updated on May 12, 2010