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2008-11-21 Olde Tyme Religion

Muslims face bias of the 'turban effect': study

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Actually it's the "jihadi" effect.

Posted by tipover 2008-11-21 00:18|| 2008-11-21 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 You think maybe that business about ramming airliners into tall buildings and having suicide bombers target pizza parlors and shopping malls might have something to do with it?

Nah, couldn't be. It's just whitey being racist again. That's it, yeah.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-21 02:17|| 2008-11-21 02:17|| Front Page Top

#3 It goes without saying that Muslims are devoid of anti-anything "sentiment", lack any "form of prejudice", and have no "aggressive tendencies" whatsoever.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-11-21 03:41|| 2008-11-21 03:41|| Front Page Top

#4 If you see someone wearing a turban, chances are they are a Sikh

Posted by Cherelet and Tenille1095 2008-11-21 05:29|| 2008-11-21 05:29|| Front Page Top

#5 If muslim is blowing up a power plant, it's the
turbine effect.

Posted by Mullah Lodabullah 2008-11-21 05:32|| 2008-11-21 05:32|| Front Page Top

#6 It happens when people pay attention.

Posted by ed 2008-11-21 07:32|| 2008-11-21 07:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe if they quit blowing shit up (?)....

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-21 08:34|| 2008-11-21 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Perhaps if they just wore baseball caps instead...

Posted by trailing wife 2008-11-21 09:20|| 2008-11-21 09:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Let's have the UN do an "Infidel Enmity Study", OK?

Posted by hammerhead 2008-11-21 09:43|| 2008-11-21 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Islanophobia implies that bias against islam and muslims is a psychological impairment. Call anti-muslim bias what it is. A rational objection to an objectionable religious/political worldview and group.

Posted by Jeremiah Omuck5913 2008-11-21 11:02|| 2008-11-21 11:02|| Front Page Top

#11 The man makes the suit. The suit is a way to make a first impression without saying anything and is based on a stereotype which of course is a generic set of values (right or wrong) based on experience with people who wear that suit. For example, every Bond has been sharped dressed - people have favorite Bond characters despite the suit yet the suit makes an actor automatically looked Bond-ish (also Jackie Chan in The Tuxedo). Suit = uniform style of dress whether military, gangster, yuppie, pizza delivery so forth.

Therefore if wearing a Turban makes a person look and therefore treated as a violent instead of a peacemaker (Buddhist, Nun garbs for example) or otherwise then you know what maybe there is a reason for that; that is the bias didn't come from a random dice roll. Maybe if the first turban wearers were handing out bags of mustard seed instead of tools of violence...wanna change that perception start with yourselves and it will take time - for a people who measure wars in generations it should be not problem to be peaceful for a single generation if the will is there.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-11-21 12:17|| 2008-11-21 12:17|| Front Page Top

#12 how about: I hate Slave owners? Does that cause cog dissonance, Ban? F*ck you and your corrupt org

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-21 19:52|| 2008-11-21 19:52|| Front Page Top

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