Are Muslim and Islam the same?

Select one:

a. No, Muslim and Islam are not monolithic; they are dynamic communities and identities.

b. All Muslims are the same.

c. No, there is no such thing as a Muslim identity, its a religion so how can it be an identity?

d. Yes, Muslim are religious followers of Islam

e. Yes, there is a Muslim culture.

Question 2

Are Arab communities discriminated against in the USA?

Select one:

a. Yes, Arab communities are discriminated against, the discrimination is dynamic and structural.

b. Yes, all Arabs are discriminated against solely as individuals.

c. No, we live in a society where everyone is treated equally.

d. Yes, but Arabs are only discriminated against by the FBI.

Question 3

What is profiling, how does it relate to Arab and Muslim communities?

Select one:

a. Arabs and Muslims have only been profiled by the government as possible orchestrators of terrorist attacks. Arabs and Muslims, while profiled, have never actually been hurt by it.

b. It is drawing on canvas profiles of Arabs and Muslims to hang on their walls.

c. It is the act of knowing the behavior and characteristic of an individual based on different markers, such as ethnicity, class, appearance.

d. It is the association of individuals with group markers, such as ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexuality, appearance. Arabs and Muslims have been profiled by law enforcement, government agencies, companies, larger society, and within their communities and other communities of color; profiling leads to the discrimination against communities.

Question 4

An example of profiling is:

Select one:

a. Hiring only Arabs as Arabic-English translators

b. Being asked to show your ID to enter a club even though you look over 21.

c. Many oil companies are in Arab and Muslim nations.

d. The mass placement of Arabs and Muslims on the no-fly list

Question 5

What is belonging, how does it relate to Arabs?

Select one:

a. Arabs belong in their home countries in the Middle East.

b. The notion of belonging is only seen in the struggle for national self-determination. A group of people that lay claim to a land and feel like they belong there should build a nation there. It is exactly like the English pilgrims who belonged in the USA and then fought for their self-determination here in the Revolutionary War. Arabs who have assimilated into American culture belong in the USA, they wouldnt feel comfortable living anywhere else.

c. The notion of belonging entails a negotiation of many intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, diaspora, community, displacement, immigration, racialization, and the concepts of imagined community among others. As such, belonging is not a single experience confined in a geopolitical spaces. Everyone negotiates belonging.

d. Arabs belong to and should stay in their homes and neighborhoods.

Question 6

Do Muslim women need saving?

Select one:

a. Wrong question! Muslim women and men are fully aware of how they need and what the conditions are for their struggle for gender and sexual justice within an anti-colonial framework. Feminist discourses that center an indivisible sense of justice, including justice for gender and sexual justice in Muslim communities must center voices, experiences, and contexts for Muslim women (and men).

b. Yes, women in Muslim countries cant vote, they arent allowed to work outside of the home, drive a car, and they are forced to cover their entire body and face. The USA as an advanced nation has a responsibility to intervene, even if by military means to protect human rights.

c. No, misogyny is a thing of the past, it doesnt exist anymore.

d. No. Muslim culture does not value women but thats their culture so we should not get involved

e. Yes, Muslim men are misogynist and Muslim women must be protected from them.

Question 7

Is settler colonialism racism?

Select one:

a. A lot of times colonists came to settler other lands because they were fleeing prosecution so its hard to say definitively if its racism or not.

b. Yes, settler colonialism is usually predicated on the idea that the settling group is superior to the indigenous group and in many instances has attempted to erase the traces of the indigenous population.

c. No, if you follow history weve all been settlers at one point or another, even the Native Americans immigrated and settled in North America coming through the Bering Strait.

Question 8

An example of Islamophobia is:

Select one:

a. The separation of church and state.

b. When a Muslim eats pork.

c. A Muslim woman who does not wear the hijab in the gym.

d. When a Muslim woman wearing the hijab is told by the store manager to remove her hijab or work in the back room.

Question 9

Are Muslims terrorists?

Select one:

a. Not all Muslims are terrorists but some Muslims engage in terrorism.

b. No, such a question perpetuates the fact that the moniker terrorism is used by U.S. dominate hegemony to justify its oppression and colonization of Muslim communities.

c. In the clash of civilizations between the West and the Muslim world, terrorism is a tool Muslims use in waging this war.

d. No, Muslim Americans supports the American way of life.

Question 10

Are all Arabs Muslims? Are all Muslims Arabs?

Select one:

a. No Muslims are not Arabs and Arabs are not Muslims

b. No but it is fair to assume that an Arab is a Muslim until told they arent.

c. Yes, all Arabs are Muslims but not all Muslims are Arabs

d. No, Arabs and Muslims are not the same. Some Arabs are Muslims and some Muslims are Muslims are Arabs. Other Arabs are Jewish, Christian, Hindu, atheist or agnostic.