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Mosque Alert Analysis
On November 3rd (Tuesday), I went to an Arab American event called "Mosque Alert". Mosque Alert is a play written by Jamil Khoury, which elaborates on the struggles of opening a mosque for Muslims in the Naperville community. It also explores multiple aspects like Islamophobia, religious pluralism, and cultural collision from thirty four 2 to 15 minute clips that made up a story. In these clips, two family (One Christian & One Muslim) discuss individual perspectives of what they see as being Muslim. The Christian Family, the Bakers, presented themselves as Islamophobic or Anti-Muslim by establishing a hatred of Muslims towards society. The Khan, on the other hand, establishes their moral of opening the mosque and fitting within the society.
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