Re: CITR and the Koran

Any presentation of a religion will be a "biased" presentation of a religion --
an intelligent instructor should be able to distinguish the POV from which the
religion is being presented and juxtapose that with other possible POVs.

"Bias" here doesn't necessarily have to be viewed in terms of "favorable" or
"positive" and "unfavorable" or "negative." Bias can take the form of
representing Islam from only one cultural viewpoint (when it really exists in
different forms in the Middle East, Europe, the US, China, Africa...),
emphasizing some elements of historical Islam over others, etc. Whether these
kinds of biases are "positive" or "negative" would then depend purely upon the
student.

Jim

"Besiada, Jennifer" wrote:

> The point is, there should not be any discouraging OR encouraging of a
> religion going on. UNC states that they are neutral and are not promoting
> ideas yet they are introducing a very biased interpretation of the religion.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: m e g h a n [mailto:bedroomdancing@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:01 PM
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: RE: CITR and the Koran
>
> Well, wouldn't any book be biased? You're either going to have a very
> positive view of the Koran or a negative view of the Koran. At least they
> chose the book that shows the Koran in a positive light, opposed to a book
> that makes it out to be some terrible book in some terrible religion, and
> therefore possibly brewing more anti-Islamic feelings.
>
> >From: "Besiada, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Besiada@nextel.com>
> >Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> >To: "'bananafish@roughdraft.org'" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
> >Subject: RE: CITR and the Koran
> >Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:52:25 -0400
> >
> >There was an article about this in the Washington Post - it wasn't the
> >Koran, it was a book by an author explaining the Koran, chapter by chapter.
> >The school says they wanted to increase awareness of what is really in the
> >book, not promote anything. I favor people getting more educated on things
> >that are so prominent in the news, but on the other hand, from what I've
> >read, the author's slant is very positive, so I don't know about using that
> >particular work.
> >
> >Jennifer
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