Post on 09-Dec-2014
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Beyond The Usual
Mariam EL-zeiny
Why ?
There is no point of repeating the
same thing 9x.
To apply the creative methods I’ve
learned.
To look at discrimination from a
different perspective.
Looking at the Bigger Picture
Seeing the Bigger Picture
In our educational systems , we
have ‘ Fragmentation of Knowledge’.
Deep in a part , but lost in the
whole.
It is not about what you know but
why you know what you know ?
What is your concept of Human Being ?
An Islamic Prospective of Human Beings.
ب/ن-ي { ن/ا م2 ك/ر4 د2 ل/ق/ و/آد/م/ }
“We gave dignity to human beings”.
How ? Dignity
Freedom
�ج�ع�ل� �ت �وا أ ق�الف�يه�ا م�ن�
د� ف�يه�ا �ف�س� يف�ك� �س� و�ي الد)م�اء�
It is a risk , but it is
our dignity.
Knowledge
8م� آد�م� و�ع�ل8ه�ا �ل م�اء� ك �س� األ
Knowledge will help you get best of your
freedom.
This is the Bigger Picture.
Our main goal is to have dignified
human beings.(with NO
discrimination) .
We have the solution ( Freedom &
Knowledge).
Going Deeper.
In order to understand discrimination we need
to go deeper.
To ask where did all this start from ?
It is pointless to be busy healing the symptom
where you should concentrate on the cause .
Where ?
Psychologists have been researching on this .
The call it ‘ Implicit Association’ : how certain ideas affect our believes
and behavior.
It all comes from : Cultural messages.
Movies : rarely it is a black hero.
Newspapers , adverts and so on.
These are the messages the child soaks and unconsciously behave upon.
It is the family : stories , values.
Thinking
concious
Choose to believe
Stated values
unconscious
Immediate and
automatic
Unaware of them
Implicit Association Test (IAT )
Types : Gender IAT , Race IAT , Religion IAT , Arab-Muslim
IAT ..etc..
www.implicit.Harvard.edu
80% : pro-white association.
We are not deliberately racists , stereotypical .
The IAT measures how much were are affect by the
cultural messages.
Conclusion Criticism without solution is useless.
Never lose the bigger picture , the larger aim.
Always ask : how ? Where ? Why ?.
Our resource for principles and ethics : Quran.
Search deeper to find the true cause.
Change yourself before changing others.
Questions ? Comments ? Complains?
Aim
My aim is NOT to make you think like me , but to
give you the tools to THINK for yourself.
What ? Messages Video : Facebook Page “ Videos of the
world’. Islamic Perspective : YouTube video : ‘
Education : Goals and Ethics by Dr.Tareq Ramadan.’
IAT : Book : Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Drawings : Facebook Page : Hager Hesham Art
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