June 09, 1989 (vol. 99, iss. 5) • Page Image 7
… apology is in order from the editors to the Arab and Muslim communi- ties of Ann Arbor. Contact the Muslim Students Asso- at the Islamic Center. , . . …
… an LSA senior, majoring in English. Kalyn will be a Minority Peer Advisor at Mary Markley in the Fall. Prospect article is racist By the Muslim Students Association The latest in what seems to be…
… a series of attacks on the Muslim and Arab communities in Ann Arbor occured in the pages of the March/April 1989 issue of a cam- pus Jewish magazine, Prospect. In this last issue, the article, "The…
… Jews We Forgot," and the accom- panying box, "Jews in the Moslem, World," written by Sharon Parrott and Elissa Sard were racist and of- fensive to both Muslims and Arabs. They contained many inaccura…
…- cies, biases and insults which per- petuate stereotypes and hurt the credibility of this voice for Jewish students on campus. If the views in this magazine are reflective of Jewish students on this…
… largely of Arab coun- tries. In reality, Arab people consti- tute only about 12 percent of all Muslim peoples; the largest Muslim nation population-wise is Indonesia, followed by Pakistan, and then by…
… either China or Bangladesh. - mma 2. "As Arab fundamentalism grows in Iran, Jews fear what may come" (p. 5). Iranians are not Arab, they are Persians. They do not speak Arabic, but Farsi. A mistake like…
… this can only be made by a per- son who is either very ignorant, or who has a bigoted view of Arabs, Muslims and Iranians. What the au- thors probably meant to write was "As Islamic fundamentalism…
…...." This is an editorial mistake that has many implications. It once again reflects the misconception that all Arabs are Muslim (& vice versa), and therefore it is okay to use these words interchangeably…
…. More signif- icantly, it assumes that Arabs (and therefore Muslims) are de facto - )0' threats to Jews. Why else would Jews fear "Arab fundamentalism?" Considering that there is no ideology that can be…

















































