Americans need to learn more about Islam to correct the cultural misunderstandings that have caused unneeded hostilities, a Harvard University Islamic religion and culture professor said on Monday at the George Sherman Union.
Professor Ali Asani addressed a crowd of about 15 people in a presentation titled “I am American Too: Thinking about Islam and Muslims post 9/11.” The lecture was part of the Islam Awareness Week series sponsored by Islamic Society of Boston University.
Social chair of Islamic Society at BU and College of Engineering junior Ifran Govani said the lecture was necessary in order to teach the “plurality of Islam.”
“Islam isn’t just one idea,” he said. “I see Muslims and non-Muslims in the audience. There is a good mix of young and old.”
Asani began the lecture by discussing American society’s perceptions towards Muslims in the United States in the years after the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001.
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