Terrorism and the Implicit Association Test

Induced Stereotyping?Imagine that you ' re riding on a very crowded bus in a busy urban area in the US. You get on during a shift change, when a new driver takes over for the old one. The new driver appears to be Middle Eastern, and for a second you have a fleeting reaction that the situation might become dangerous. This is embarrassing and ridiculous, you think. You hate that the thought even crossed your mind. There are1.8 billion Muslims in the world. How many are radical Islamist extremists? For example, in the UK at present, the number comprises maybe0.00000167% of all Muslims?1Language matters.Theresa May:“First, while the recent attacks are not connected by common networks, they are connected in one important sense. They are bound together bythe single, evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division, and promotes sectarianism. It is an ideology that claims our Western values of freedom, democracy and human rights are incompatible with the religion of Islam. It is an ideology that is a perversion of Islam and a perversion of the truth. ”Donald Trump:“That means honestly confronting the crisis of Islamist extremism and the Islamist terror groups it inspires. And it means standing together against the murder of innocent Muslims, the oppression of women, the persecution of Jews, and the slaughter of Christians.. . .DRIVE THEM OUT OF THIS EARTH. ”In both of these cases, the world leaders did acknowledge thatIslamist extremism is not the...
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