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Gurbani (1118-1123)
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 98843" data-attributes="member: 35"><p><strong>Re: The Magical Hat AKA The Turban</strong></p><p></p><p>Bhagat ji</p><p></p><p>Thanks for rewording your statement. I understood that you were not making an accusation against those who wear turbans. I think you wear one yourself. You meant that the social acceptance of turbans has changed and not for the better. I am not aware of statistics to prove either side of the argument. However this study was published some months ago on Sikhnet. It is hair-raising, frightening. It demonstrates that there are many people in the west who in complete bigotry rising from even greater ignorance equate the turban with danger and evil. Read this and you will go away very upset. At least I did.</p><p></p><p><strong>Study suggests "turban effect" as a source of "Islamophobia"</strong></p><p></p><p> July 2nd, 2008 Source: <a href="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=11a895ab-c168-48aa-b3a5-5d041d241560" target="_blank">www.canada.com</a> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><img src="http://www.sikhnet.com/files/news/2008/July/Turban.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A Muslim-style turban is perceived as a threat, according to a new study, even by people who don't realize they hold the prejudice, dubbed "<em>the turban effect</em>" by researchers.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Research volunteers played a computer game that showed apartment balconies on which different figures appeared, some wearing Muslim-style turbans or hijabs and others bare-headed. They were told to shoot at the targets carrying guns and spare those who were unarmed, with points awarded accordingly. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">People were much more likely to shoot Muslim-looking characters - men or women - even if they were carrying an innocent item instead of a weapon, the researchers found. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Whether they're holding a steel coffee mug or a gun, people are just more likely to shoot at someone who is wearing a turban," says author <em>Christian Unkelbach</em>, a visiting scholar at Australia's <em>University of New South Wales</em>. "Just putting on this piece of clothing changes people's behaviour." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>Unkelbach </em>largely blames one-sided media portrayals for the bias.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The results would almost certainly be the same if this study was conducted in Canada, says <em>Mohamed Elmasry</em>, national president of the <em>Canadian Islamic Congress</em>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"I'm hoping that Canadian Muslims one day become invisible," says <em>Elmasry</em>. "As such, Canadians will treat them like any others."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Islamophobia</strong> - "latent" before 9/11 - is on the rise, he says, but there is very little research on the issue in Canada.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The new study "does confirm our biggest fear that there is discrimination and prejudice within our society, and unfortunately people don't recognize it or don't admit it," says <em>Salam Elmenyawi</em>, president of the Muslim Council of Montreal.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Sometimes they really don't know that it does exist."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Beyond a turban or hijab, someone's name, skin colour or a long beard may also identify them as a Muslim and make them a target of prejudice, he says. <em>Elmenyawi</em> wears a head-covering and long beard and says he struggles between recognizing that negative stereotypes exist and not becoming "paranoid" that he might fall prey to them.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">In fact, the Australian study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the <em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology</em>, confirmed that people don't even realize they hold these biased views. When the true intention of the experiment was revealed, <em>Unkelbach</em> says participants insisted they were not prejudiced and must have reacted differently from everyone else.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"The most common response was, 'I'm sure I didn't show that effect,'" he says. "They're uncomfortable and I believe them - people are not doing this willingly. If they could, they would control that. Here, people are almost the victims of what they are fed by their environment." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">A quick sampling of news items related to Muslims and the Middle East confirmed this, he says, with a focus on violence and terrorism almost obliterating more balanced stories about the culture and people. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"If everything about Middle Easterners is associated with terrorism, people tend to form stereotypes in their head," confirms <em>Rima Wilkes</em>, a sociology professor studying media at the <em>University of British Columbia</em>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Even fictional media feed these biases, she says. One study showed that movies tend to feature "socially acceptable" villain stereotypes that have evolved over time, from evil Germans in the post-war years to vaguely Muslim bad guys more recently. Even swarthy, pixelated video game adversaries send the message that "ethnic others are bad," <em>Wilkes</em> says.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="font-size: 9px">Shannon Proudfoot</span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="font-size: 9px">Canwest News Service</span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="font-size: 9px">Source <a href="http://www.sikhnet.com/daily-news/study-suggests-turban-effect-a-source-islamophobia" target="_blank">Study suggests "turban effect" as a source of "Islamophobia" | SikhNet</a></span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></strong></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 98843, member: 35"] [b]Re: The Magical Hat AKA The Turban[/b] Bhagat ji Thanks for rewording your statement. I understood that you were not making an accusation against those who wear turbans. I think you wear one yourself. You meant that the social acceptance of turbans has changed and not for the better. I am not aware of statistics to prove either side of the argument. However this study was published some months ago on Sikhnet. It is hair-raising, frightening. It demonstrates that there are many people in the west who in complete bigotry rising from even greater ignorance equate the turban with danger and evil. Read this and you will go away very upset. At least I did. [B]Study suggests "turban effect" as a source of "Islamophobia"[/B] July 2nd, 2008 Source: [URL="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=11a895ab-c168-48aa-b3a5-5d041d241560"]www.canada.com[/URL] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][IMG]http://www.sikhnet.com/files/news/2008/July/Turban.jpg[/IMG]A Muslim-style turban is perceived as a threat, according to a new study, even by people who don't realize they hold the prejudice, dubbed "[I]the turban effect[/I]" by researchers. Research volunteers played a computer game that showed apartment balconies on which different figures appeared, some wearing Muslim-style turbans or hijabs and others bare-headed. They were told to shoot at the targets carrying guns and spare those who were unarmed, with points awarded accordingly. People were much more likely to shoot Muslim-looking characters - men or women - even if they were carrying an innocent item instead of a weapon, the researchers found. "Whether they're holding a steel coffee mug or a gun, people are just more likely to shoot at someone who is wearing a turban," says author [I]Christian Unkelbach[/I], a visiting scholar at Australia's [I]University of New South Wales[/I]. "Just putting on this piece of clothing changes people's behaviour." [I]Unkelbach [/I]largely blames one-sided media portrayals for the bias. The results would almost certainly be the same if this study was conducted in Canada, says [I]Mohamed Elmasry[/I], national president of the [I]Canadian Islamic Congress[/I]. "I'm hoping that Canadian Muslims one day become invisible," says [I]Elmasry[/I]. "As such, Canadians will treat them like any others." [B]Islamophobia[/B] - "latent" before 9/11 - is on the rise, he says, but there is very little research on the issue in Canada. The new study "does confirm our biggest fear that there is discrimination and prejudice within our society, and unfortunately people don't recognize it or don't admit it," says [I]Salam Elmenyawi[/I], president of the Muslim Council of Montreal. "Sometimes they really don't know that it does exist." Beyond a turban or hijab, someone's name, skin colour or a long beard may also identify them as a Muslim and make them a target of prejudice, he says. [I]Elmenyawi[/I] wears a head-covering and long beard and says he struggles between recognizing that negative stereotypes exist and not becoming "paranoid" that he might fall prey to them. In fact, the Australian study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the [I]Journal of Experimental Social Psychology[/I], confirmed that people don't even realize they hold these biased views. When the true intention of the experiment was revealed, [I]Unkelbach[/I] says participants insisted they were not prejudiced and must have reacted differently from everyone else. "The most common response was, 'I'm sure I didn't show that effect,'" he says. "They're uncomfortable and I believe them - people are not doing this willingly. If they could, they would control that. Here, people are almost the victims of what they are fed by their environment." A quick sampling of news items related to Muslims and the Middle East confirmed this, he says, with a focus on violence and terrorism almost obliterating more balanced stories about the culture and people. "If everything about Middle Easterners is associated with terrorism, people tend to form stereotypes in their head," confirms [I]Rima Wilkes[/I], a sociology professor studying media at the [I]University of British Columbia[/I]. Even fictional media feed these biases, she says. One study showed that movies tend to feature "socially acceptable" villain stereotypes that have evolved over time, from evil Germans in the post-war years to vaguely Muslim bad guys more recently. Even swarthy, pixelated video game adversaries send the message that "ethnic others are bad," [I]Wilkes[/I] says. [B][SIZE=1]Shannon Proudfoot Canwest News Service Source [url=http://www.sikhnet.com/daily-news/study-suggests-turban-effect-a-source-islamophobia]Study suggests "turban effect" as a source of "Islamophobia" | SikhNet[/url] [/SIZE][/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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