Prejudice of Muslims meets match this week
Yale’s seventh annual “Islamic Awareness Week” kicked off Monday with talks by two individuals who have witnessed firsthand the perniciousness of anti-Islamic prejudice.
Riz Khan, reporter for the Arabic news network Al Jazeera, spoke about misperceptions of Muslims in the media. James Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay who was illegally detained for several months, and Brandon Mayfield, an attorney who was falsely accused of coordinating the 2004 Madrid bombings that killed 191 people, spoke about their experiences being unfairly targeted.
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