“Muhammad cartoon row intensifies”
This Feb. 1, 2006 BBC News article provides a European perspective on the controversy.
This Feb. 1, 2006 BBC News article provides a European perspective on the controversy.
This Feb. 6, 2006, New York Times article analysed the escalating violence of Muslim protests against the Danish cartoons that depicted Muhammad as a terrorist.
This 2002 survey from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, found that of the 65.6 percent who said they gave money to help victims of the attack, the average gift was about $134 and half gave small donations of $50 or less. Also, 8.3 percent said they donated time – an average of 17 […]
Frances Flannery is the director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Terrorism and Peace (CISTP) and an associate professor of religion at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. Her current area of study is apocalypticism and its link to terrorism. She also teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible, world religions, religion and mysticism in […]
Rosemary Chinnici, a disaster specialist, Roman Catholic nun and pastoral theologian, considered the psychological and theological aftermath of disasters in a talk she gave after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In every disaster, she says, after an initial “honeymoon” time of helping, sharing and altruism comes a period of disillusionment with aid efforts before rebuilding begins […]
Cynthia Mahmood is Frank Moore chair of anthropology and professor of anthropology at Central College in Pella, Iowa. Fascinated by religious motivations for militancy, Mahmood specializes in the anthropology of violence, war and peace, terrorism, guerilla warfare, and language and culture. Her signature area of expertise has been upheaval among India’s Sikhs She is author of Fighting […]
An article from the New York Daily News about the July 2004 gang beating of a Sikh in Queens and the August 2012 temple shooting in Wisconsin.