This community case study describes the experiences of two neighboring Muslim communities in United States, following respective incidents suicide. Case summaries are first presented to contextualize response suicides. Subsequently, discussion highlights relevant cultural and religious factors that impacted responses mosque leadership, mental health professionals, at large. Concerns related dec...

OBJECTIVE Physical inactivity surveillance informs policy and treatment options toward meeting the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal of a 10% reduction in its prevalence by 2025. We currently do not know the aggregate prevalence for Muslim-majority countries, many of which have extremely high rates of comorbidities associated with physical inactivity. METHOD Based on data for 163, 556 pe...

Collectively blaming groups for the actions of individuals can license vicarious retribution. Acts of terrorism by Muslim extremists against innocents, and the spikes in anti-Muslim hate crimes against innocent Muslims that follow, suggest that reciprocal bouts of collective blame can spark cycles of violence. How can this cycle be short-circuited? After establishing a link between collective b...

Meta-dehumanization contributes to a vicious cycle of hostility. This study extends the literature by investigating antecedents and outcomes meta-dehumanization in context Muslim–non-Muslim relations. Specifically, control over terrorism (COT) threat were tested as predictors among non-Muslim British nationals (N = 313). The results revealed that lower perceptions COT predicted increased threat...