[On 12 May 2014, the Associated Press ran a wire story about a group letter regarding the September 11 Museum film, The Rise of al-Qaeda. The story was since featured in newspapers around the world. Below is the final version of the letter, which hilights the concerns with the film as well as the signatories.]
Via Electronic Mail
President Joe Daniels and Director Alice Greenwald
National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center
200 Liberty Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10281
May 9, 2014
Dear President Joe Daniels and Director Alice Greenwald,
As scholars in the fields of religion, political science, history, Islam, race theory, museum studies, and related disciplines, we express concern regarding information in recent media reports about the film "The Rise of al-Qaeda" in the September 11 Memorial Museum. This documentary video is apparently the centerpiece of the section of the museum`s permanent exhibition that explains the causes of September 11.
As reported in The New York Times on April 24, the museum`s own Interfaith Advisory Group has repeatedly asked for months that this video be edited, with their concerns being dismissed entirely. According to the group`s testimony, the video deploys academically-controversial terminology of "Islamist extremism/terrorism" and "jihadism" to generalize, unnecessarily and in a haphazard manner without full definition or context, about al-Qaeda`s acts of terrorism. The advisory group argued that the video, in its present form, may give many viewers, especially those not familiar with the subtleties of the terminology being used, the impression that Islam itself is responsible for September 11.
The claims of your advisory council are extremely worrisome for us as scholars. Labels to describe organizations such as al-Qaeda are heavily disputed among academics, and in a public environment, without proper explanation and historical context, these terms could easily mislead and assign collective responsibility to Muslims and Islam. The growing field of Islamophobia studies has increasingly identified how many of these terms can serve to stigmatize Muslims.
The September 11 Memorial Museum will inevitably become one of the most visited and influential cultural institutions in the United States, and it is extremely important that its discourse and terminology reflect accurate information and broad scholarly and expert agreement. Therefore, in implementing the advice of your interfaith religious advisory council, we suggest that you immediately invite a broad, outside group of scholars to evaluate and review "The Rise of Al-Qaeda" before the museum opens on May 21.
Sincerely,
Dr. Mark Sedgwick
Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Aarhus
Prof. William A. Graham
Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and University Distinguished Service Professor Harvard University
Dr. Marilyn Booth
Iraq Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh
Dr. Mohammed B. Alwan
Senior Lecturer in Arabic, Emeritus, Tufts University
Prof. Hugh Goddard
Director of the HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Dr John L. Esposito
Professor, Georgetown University
Dr. Intisar Rabb
Professor of Law and History, Harvard University
Suad Joseph
Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis
Dr. Hatem Bazian
Director, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project and Editor of the Islamophobia Studies Journal, UC Berkeley and Co-Founder, Zaytuna College
Dr. Munir Jiwa
Director and Professor, Graduate Theological Union Center for Islamic Studies, Berkeley, CA
Dr. Adel Gamal
Professor of Arabic Literature, University of Arizona
Thomas Michel
Professor of Religious Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar
Mohammed Bamyeh
Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Janet Jakobsen
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women`s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
Dr. Wail Hassan
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cynthia Franklin
Professor of English, University of Hawaii
Dr. Sarah Marusek
Social Science PhD, Syracuse University
Huma Dar
Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Dr. Idrisa Pandit
Director, Studies in Islam, University of Waterloo
Dr. Nancy Gallagher
Research Professor, Modern Middle East History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Elliott Bazzano
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Le Moyne College
Dr Stephen Sheehi
Associate Professor of Arabic and Arab Studies, University of South Carolina
Prof. Dustin Byrd
Assistant Professor of Humanities, Olivet College
Dr. Issam Eido
Visiting fellow, University of Chicago
Dr. Paul Antze
Associate Professor, Social Science, York University
Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander
Researcher
Dr. Maurice Jr. M. Labelle
Visiting Scholar in Culture and Creativity, University of Saskatchewan
Elizabeth Bishop
Assistant Professor of History
Farid Hafez
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University
Kate Tinworth
Principal, ExposeYourMuseum
Dr. Peter Gran
Prof. of History, Temple University
Dr. Halide Salam
Professor of Art, Radford University
Dagdevir Yeliz
Universität Innsbruck
Cyra Akila Choudhury
Associate Professor of Law, Florida International University
Dr. Nathan Hofer
Assistant Professor of Islam, University of Missouri
Sabra J. Webber
Professor, The Ohio State University
Dr. Yasmine Khayyat
Rutgers University
Prof. Samer Ali
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, UT Austin
Michael Fares
Instructional Assistant Professor of Arabic, University of Houston
Dr. Alexa Firat
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Temple University
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Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo
Alexander Key
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Dr. Annie C. Higgins
Asst. Prof. of Arabic, College of Charleston
Tugrul Keskin
Assistant Professor and Portland State University
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Lecturer in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton
Samuel Hodgkin
Doctoral student, University of Chicago
Silvia Ferreira
PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tamer Balci
Associate Professor of History
Ahmet Öztürk
University of Vienna
Dr. Mustafa Gurbuz
Post-Doctoral Scholar, Univ. of South Florida
Dr. Haider Bhuiyan
Professor of Arabic and Islam, University of North Georgia
Dr. Rula Jurdi
Assoc. Professor of History
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Assistant Professor, History, Cal State San Marcos
Elijah Reynolds
Lecturer of Arabic
Adele M. Morrison
Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School
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Acad. Librarian Near Eastern Studies, University Library of Basel, Switzerland
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Nonaffiliated Researcher
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Lecturer in Comparative Literature, King`s College London
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Doctoral Candidate, University of Kerala
Carrie Schwartz
Assistant Curator of Education & Exhibits, National Museum of Wildlife Art
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Professor, Whittier Law School
Dr. Caren Kaplan
Professor of American Studies, UC Davis
Professor Talip Kucukcan
Director of Institute for Middle East Studies, Marmara University
Öğrt. Gr. Mehmet Emin Akaslan
YYU University
Dr. Ismail Rashid
Professor of History, Vassar College
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Professor, University of Manchester
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Professor, Social Sciences University of Ankara
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Professor of Arabic, University of Virginia
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Emad Hamdeh
Professor of Arabic Studies, Montclair State University
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Assistant Professor, Murray State University
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Professor, CNRS
George Archer
Department of Theology, Georgetown University
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
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Sabeen Qureshi
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Professor, UC Berkeley
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Professor of Modern Arabic Literature
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Th. Emil Homerin
Professor of Religion (Islam)
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University of Adnan, Menderes
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Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
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Assistant Professor of History, Augsburg College
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Nuri Aydın
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Assistant Professor, Union Theological Seminary
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Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, and Charter Member 9/11 Memorial Museum
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Associate Professor of Islam and World Religions
Hassan Najjar
Executive Director, Museum Center at 5ive Points
Ben Foley
Rutgers, Sociology
Farid Al-Salim
Assistant Professor of History, Qatar University
Karen Armstrong
Author, Historian of Religion
Jonathan M. Bloom
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College
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Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race & Resistance Studies
Jonathan M. Bloom
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Visiting Assistant Professor, International Studies, College of Charleston
Dalia Mogahed
Co-Author, "Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think"
Dr. Matthew Pierce
Assistant Professor of Religion, Centre College
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Professor of Political Science, The College of New Jersey
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Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
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Independent Researcher, Author
Dr. Shahrough Akhavi
Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
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Senior Researcher at CNRS (France)
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Professor of Literature, University of Istanbul
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Fons Vitae Academic Islamic Press
Madalena Salazar
Latino Cultural Programs Coordinator, Denver Art Museum
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Marmara üniversitesi hukuk fakültesi
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Doctoral Candidate, Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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Attorney and Author, "The Muslim Next Door: the Qur`an, the Media, and that Veil Thing"
Suneela Mubayi
Graduate student, NYU
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Assistant Professor of Islam, Trinity College
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University of Aberdeen
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PhD Candidate, University of Texas
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Associate Professor of History, Villanova University
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Professor of Islamic Law (retired)
Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan
Bayan Alshabani
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Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
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Edward E. Curtis IV
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Sevde Zeynep Ocak
M.A. student, Middle Eastern Studies in Marmara University
Dr. Jeremy F. Walton
University of Goettingen, Research Fellow in the Study of Secularism
Irfan Chaudhry
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Shahirah Mahmood
PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin Madison
Dr. Minhas Majeed Khan
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Prof. Jacques Waardenburg
Professor (Emeritus) of Science of Religion, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Rev. Francis. Mac Mathuna
Irish Gestalt Centre
Sabra J. Webber
Professor, The Ohio State University
Vanessa J. Panaligan
Georgetown University
Dr. Aisha Y. Musa
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Muhamad Ali
Professor of Islam, University of California Riverside
Dr Abdul Cader Asmal MD PhD
Chairman of Communications, Islamic Council of New England
Şehide Zehra KELEİ
Marmara University
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President, Minaret of Freedom Institute
Dr. Muhammad Eissa
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Dr. María Teresa Dávila
Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Andover Newton Theological School
Mucahit Bilici
Assistant Professor of Sociology, John Jay College, CUNY
Malik Khan
Islamic Center of Boston, Wayland MA
David H Warren
Doctoral Candidate, University of Manchester
Dr. Robert Rozehnal
Associate Professor of Religion Studies, Lehigh University
Dr. Ferruh Yilmaz
Professor of Communication, Tulane University
Amina Zarrugh
PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Lotte Lent
Assistant Director, Museum Education Program, Master of Arts in Teaching in Museum Education, The George Washington University
Sheila Musaji
Editor, The American Muslim
Bishop John Bryson Chane
Senior Advisor, Inter-Faith Relations, Washington National Cathedral
Dr Sven Schottmann
Research Fellow, Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Melbourne
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Linguist, Author, Founder of Quranic Linguistics Institute (QuranicLinguistics.com)
Farah El-Sharif
Doctoral Student, Harvard University
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Karabuk University, Turkey
James Quesada, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University
Dr. Muqtedar Khan
Associate Professor, University of Delaware
Dr. Faegheh Shirazi
Professor of Islamic Studies
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Sociology of Religion, Marmara University
Zainab Kabba
PhD Candidate, Oxford University
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Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University
Dr. Hanadi Al-Samman
Associate Professor of Arabic, Unjversity of Virginia
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Association of Muslim Chaplains
Dr. Raihani
Senior Lecturer, Suska State Islamic University
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Associate Professor of Arab American Studies and American Culture, University of Michigan
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Government & Politics, University of Maryland
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Professor of Political Science, Providence College
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Professor of Philosophy, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
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Professor of Islamic History, State Islamic University Jakarta
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
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PhD Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
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Columbia University
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Boğaziçi University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Retired, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Liverpool Hope University, UK.
Samuel Barry
Ph. D. Student, University of Manchester
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Assoc. Professor of Political Science and Religious Studies
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Author, Speaker
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Imam, Masjid al-Qur`aan
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Professor Emerita, Wheelock College
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Art Historian, University of Jordan
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Teacher of Arabic, University of Edinburgh
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Dr. William O. Beeman
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Frostburg State University
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Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Comparative Civilization, International Islamic University Malaysia
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Georgetown University
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Professor of Hispanic Studies
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Interactive Exhibits Supervisor, Queens Library`s Children`s Library Discovery Center
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Dr., University of Manchester
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Director, Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam and Professor of Communication Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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Education Dept., Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
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University of Sakarya, Turkey
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Senior Museum Executive
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Ithaca College
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San Francisco State University
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University of Colorado
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International Islamic University Malaysia
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Qatar University
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Duke University
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Sabancı University, Turkey
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Professor of Anthropology, Queens College
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Assistant Curator of Education and Exhibits, National Museum of Wildlife Art
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