by John Stanley - 22 October 2010 12 H.
The Arizona Republic
Anti-Muslim sentiments flared this week when NPR news analyst talks about Juan Williams on Fox News about how he felt nervous when people dressed in "Muslim Costume" aboard airplanes with him.
The comments were only the latest twist in the political storm underway on what means be Muslim in Amérique.Le last month, the controversy to a mosque planned near Ground Zero in New York in daily on plans for the changing of Pastor in Florida to engrave the Qur'an updates.
In an atmosphere much say depicts the unjustly, Arab-Americans in Arizona will gather this weekend to celebrate culture Arabic up to 40,000 people of all religions and ethnic groups are expected for a two-day festival in central Phoenix.
This is the third year of the event, which will feature more than 50 musicians, singers and dancers. Lebanese pop sensation Fady Andraos, "rock star of the Arab world," will make its u.s. debut. The festival is one of the largest ethnic events in the Valley.
Organizers hope that the cultural celebration will help to overcome the stereotypes.
"Let's not mix cards," said Ashraf ElGamal, born Festival promoter.
"The American Arab Festival has nothing to do with islam or mosques." Arabs are Muslims and Christians and Jews."They are all".
Arab-Americans from many walks of life were caught off the coast guard by the present fervor about Islam.
Sarah Boumerzoug is Treasurer of the Association of Arab at Arizona State University students and plans attend day Steele Indian School Park.
Boumerzoug, who is Muslim and wears a headscarf, moved to New Hampshire, Chandler while she was 9 .jusqu ' in September, she never had - physically at least - the sting of anti-Arab discrimination.
While walking into McClintock drive Tempe, a young man he rushed and, with a curse, it back to where it came.
"I was just in a State of shock," said Boumerzoug. "I couldn't believe that it happened.I am an American, so I don't know where I can go back to.
Thrust of last month's surprised anti-Arab sentiment Faisal Abulhassan, President of the Association Arab ASU students.
"We can't help but think it is to a large extent due to the policy and the mid-term elections," said Abulhassan. ""The feeling is that we are really being used as a scapegoat for the policy.
Questions for Arab-Americans are not different from those of other Americans, said Paul Brown, the Arab American Institute Foundation, a subsidiary of the basis of Washington, D.C. Arab American Institute.
"Its health care, job security, wondering if you can afford to send your children to college or if you will be able to collect social security," he said. "The things... that all Americans are concerned."
In his new book, "Arab voices: they tell us, and why it Matters," James Zogby addresses of misconceptions about Arabs.
Zogby, President of the American Institute of Arabic, writes that throughout the Arab region 22-nation, people almost uniformly self-identify as Arabic is describing as linked to each other by a common language, with an implied common history) and shared political concerns.
But outside of it, that means be Arab is so nuanced and its generalizations have so many exceptions, that in a special issue last year, editors at the Economist float the idea that "Arab world" does not exist, which he described as "a large amorphous thing and probably not a thing at all.
Some misconceptions include:
-All the Muslim Arabs, all Muslims are Arabic.
Although a large majority of people in the Arab world is Muslim, only about a quarter of the world almost 1.6 billion Muslims is arabe.Et almost two-thirds of the Arabs at the United States are Christians.
-All the Arabs are the same.
There are 22 Arab countries and, although there are similarities and a good dose of cultural overlap, each has its own history, traditions, and in some cases, the language.
-"Arab" and "Middle East" are terms interchangeables.En made, half of all the Arab countries are in Africa.
Arab American Festival the Valley of the moves to Steele Indian School Park this year after decidua Glendale location where he was detained for two years.
In addition to the images and sounds of the festival, visitors will appreciate the sensation of Bazaar-street sellers of 70 persons, area where they can buy handmade art toys and jewelry and get (if temporary) elaborate henna tattoos.
About two dozen food stalls offer baklava, hummus, falafel, skewers (as well as hot dogs, tariff Mexico, Indian and philippine) .Visiteurs can try traditional water pipes at a Hookah, show where smoking tobacco fruit is just as much to socialize as is the subject of smoking.
"There is no political objectives or religious missions or something like that," said ElGamal. "It is... Entertainment and fun.?
Cultural festivals, including those which are expressly not political and religious, can go far to dispel negative stereotypes, said Brown. "There, look on all the fun they.... Arabs are sparkling and pleasure, not a dark, violent people-loving.?
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