15 years later: Post 9/11 support for increased security and criminalizing muslims

Aizpurúa, Eva; Singer, Alexa J.; Butler, Leah Fikre; Collier, Nicole L.; Gertz, Marc

doi:10.1080/15377938.2017.1385556

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“…A few important observations may be helpful for other libraries hoping to replicate these initiatives. First, given the current national political environment, including growing Islamophobia [38] and broader anti-religious sentiment on university campuses [39], the library has the capacity to provide a safe space for all community members. Second, given the advantage of collaborative efforts, these endeavors have great benefit with minimal financial costs.…”

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Improving community well-being through collaborative initiatives at a medical library

Funaro

Rojiani

Norton

2019

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Background: In an increasingly digital age, the role of the library is changing to better serve its community. The authors’ library serves health care professionals who experience high levels of stress due to everyday demands of work or study, which can have negative impacts on physical and mental health. Our library is committed to serving the needs of our community by identifying opportunities to improve their well-being.Case Presentation: Librarians at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University developed a group mindfulness program and a space for self-defined personal care to assist health care professionals in alleviating stress. Surveys were used to evaluate the mindfulness program and self-care space.Conclusions: We successfully implemented two collaborative wellness and self-care initiatives with students and other stakeholders, as demonstrated by program attendance, diverse space use, and positive survey responses for both initiatives. While these endeavors do not replace the need to challenge structural problems at the root of stress in the health care professions, this case report offers a blueprint for other medical libraries to support the well-being of their communities.

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Improving community well-being through collaborative initiatives at a medical library

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Rojiani

Norton

2019

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“…On September 11, 2001, nineteen Muslims from the radical Islamic group, Al‐Qai da, put in motion a devastating attack on U.S. soil that resulted in the loss of over 2,000 lives in addition to severe damages to the U.S. economy and infrastructure (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, 2004). The attacks were highly planned and religiously symbolic (Aizpura et al 2017). The result of that association between violence and Islam was an increase in religious prejudice against Muslims in the U.S., which was particularly high immediately after 9/11 (Panagopoulos, 2006).…”

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“…Despite efforts to encourage more positive attitudes towards Muslims and distinguish them from terrorism (Telhami, 2015), more than a decade after 9/11, American respondents still reported “mostly negative” feelings towards Muslims compared to other religious groups and associated Islam with violence (Pew Research Center, 2014). U.S. government policies, which are more likely to label Islamic groups as terrorist (Beck and Miner, 2013) and then‐President George Bush’s “War on Terror”, may be partly to blame (Aizpura et al 2017).…”

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“…Because Muslims tend to reside in medium‐to‐large metropolitan areas (Pew Research Center 2020), many residents living in more rural areas of the country would have relatively little in‐person contact with this minority group and their religion. Prior to President Trump's election, contemporary Americans may have largely associated Muslims with the attacks on September 11th, 2001 (9/11), when radical Salafi extremists attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon, claiming over 2,000 lives (Azipurua et al 2017). The events put a particularly harsh spotlight on American Muslims, tying their religion, culture, and customs to apocalyptic violence (Altheide, 2007).…”

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Assessing Variation and Change in Newspaper Portrayals of Muslims: The influence of the Trump Election and Differences across the United States in Local and National Papers*

Adamczyk

Greene‐Colozzi

Keles

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Sociological Inquiry

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Since Donald Trump's political campaign, Americans have appeared increasingly divided over public opinion issues and U.S. policies with the media seemingly reflecting these divisions. One of Trump's early initiatives was the "Muslim ban," which restricted visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries. Focusing on the portrayal of Muslims in over 900 hand-coded articles, our study uses multilevel modeling techniques to examine how newspapers changed their frames and claimsmakers in discussions about Muslims before and after Trump was elected. After the election, newspapers were more likely to include government claimsmakers and an immigration frame and were less likely to mention a radical terrorist leader or portray Muslims as violent. Trump's election and the ban may have ushered in a more sympathetic view of Muslims with more articles focused on them as victims of violence and negative expressions. Across counties, states, and newspapers and between the national versus local presses, we find almost no significant differences in how Muslims were portrayed.

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“…Many studies have tested threat's direct effect (Davis & Silver, 2004; Aizpurua et al., 2017) or considered perceived threat to be a mediator for a relationship between some political disposition and some political tolerance variable (Verkuyten, 2009; Canetti et al., 2009; Caricati, 2018). The perceived threat can be differentiated by the “damage” (or consequences) it causes, which can be material or cultural (Lahav & Courtemanche, 2012; Ben‐Nun Bloom et al., 2015).…”

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What reduces support for civil liberties: Authoritarianism, national identity, and perceived threat

Mužík

Šerek

2021

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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Although civil liberties are considered to be one of the pillars of democracy, their support among people is far from unconditional. The aim of this article is to examine the predictors of people's willingness to trade off their civil liberties for a more restrictive form of government. We hypothesize that civil liberties trade-off is positively predicted by individuals' authoritarianism and national identity and that the effects of both variables are mediated by perceived threat. Our sample came from the Czech Republic and consisted of 309 respondents who participated in an online survey. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Our results supported all of our hypotheses.Perceived threat had the strongest effect on civil liberties trade-off. At the same time, perceived threat partially mediated the effect of authoritarianism and completely mediated the effect of national identity on civil liberties tradeoff.

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15 years later: Post 9/11 support for increased security and criminalizing muslims

Cited by 7 publications

References 60 publications

Improving community well-being through collaborative initiatives at a medical library

Improving community well-being through collaborative initiatives at a medical library

Assessing Variation and Change in Newspaper Portrayals of Muslims: The influence of the Trump Election and Differences across the United States in Local and National Papers*

What reduces support for civil liberties: Authoritarianism, national identity, and perceived threat

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