Few studies have empirically examined how media stereotypes of Muslims influence Americans’ support for public policies exclusively harming Muslims. Across three studies, we tested the short-term and long-term effects of news portraying Muslims as terrorists on Americans’ support for public policies harming Muslims domestically and internationally. Study 1 revealed that exposure to news portray...

Religious pluralism is a constructive attitude, not only theological normative awareness but also social awareness, where we live in pluralistic society terms of religion, culture, ethnicity, and various other diversity. In addition, religious must be understood as true affinity for concept that has broad meaning, related to the acceptance religions, used different ways. Pluralism aims deconstr...

though muslims have been living in nepal from the 15th century, they have started practicingtheir religious activities freely only after enactment of new civil code in 1963. this paper aims to explore the potentials and problems on the existing mosques, perception of the religious structures by muslim community and analysing of existing legal and institutional framework before drawing a conclus...

Malaysia is known to have a diverse population across the racial and religious spectrums. However, majority of identifies as Malays, and, thus, legally, Muslims too. Although development Malay identity had begun immediately after World War II, stark division between non-Muslims came out 1971 New Economic Policy that prioritized in name reducing poverty stabilizing country. With Malay-nationalis...

A common phenomenon which has been regretfully associated almost exclusively with Islam is the various forms of female genital cutting, or FGC[1]. Although many of those who are involved in this act attribute to the religion of Islam, the majority of the forms of FGC present in the world today which are acts truly abominable, acts of which the religion of Islam is innocent. In no way does Islam...

Population protocols are a popular model of distributed computing, in which n agents with limited local state interact randomly, and cooperate to collectively compute global predicates. Inspired by recent developments in DNA programming, an extensive series of papers, across different communities, has examined the computability and complexity characteristics of this model. Majority, or consensu...