a r t i c l e i n f o Although negative stereotypes towards Muslims escalated after the events of September 11th, little is known about how Muslim children think about their own group members. Therefore, the current study examined Muslim children's attitudes towards Muslims and non-Muslims. Sixty-five 5-to 8-year-old Muslim children, enrolled in an Islamic school, engaged in two tasks. In the a...

Articles by Gaston Wiet in the 1920s, M. Perlmann in 1942, and Donald Little in 1976 have encouraged the perception that the first century of the Mamluk period marked a turning-point in the history of Coptic conversion to Islam. According to Wiet in his article on the Copts in the Encyclopaedia of Islam: "The government of the Mamluks gave the coup de grâce to Christianity in Egypt," and he goe...

This study will examine all the attributive words with the word ‘Muslim’ in the time magazine corpus. This study will basically focus on the choice of attributive words which time magazine used for the Muslims. Language is a discourse so the study of attributive words from the time magazines corpus is a type of media discourse. The critical discourse analysis explores all those social aspects w...

The history of mankind remains one of the most challenging fields of study. However, the emergence of anatomically modern humans has been so recent that only a few genetically informative polymorphisms have accumulated. Here, we show that DNA sequences from Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that colonizes the stomachs of most humans and is usually transmitted within families, can distinguish bet...

The link between Islam and terrorism became a central media concern following September 11, resulting in new rounds of "culture talk. This talk has turned religious experience into a political category, differentiating 'good Muslims" from "bad Muslims, rather than terrorists from civilians. The implication is undisguised: Whether in Afghanistan, Palestine, or Pakistan, Islam must be quarantined...

The Indian constitution was drawn from the different sources of the world's constitution i.e. USA, Australia, Canada and Great Brittan. There was the only objective how to unite different kinds of people in united India. In fact constitution provides privileges and comforts to her masses so that all the minorities of India can take breath under the Indian constitution. It is true that the India...

Two studies examined whether social identity processes, i.e. group identification and social identity threat, amplify the degree to which people attend to social category information in early perception [assessed with event-related brain potentials (ERPs)]. Participants were presented with faces of Muslims and non-Muslims in an evaluative priming task while ERPs were measured and implicit evalu...

In the first part of this lecture, we analyze the noise sensitivity of the Majority function in more detail than last time. In the second part, we discuss the Majority is Stablest theorem, which says that among balanced functions for which each of the individual variables has low influence, the Majority function has the lowest noise sensitivity up to some small error. We also see some applicati...