ABSTRACT
When asked what comes to mind upon hearing the words ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims’, many people answer with names like Osama bin Laden, events such as 9/11 and other terrorist attacks, sources of terrorist violence such as Palestinian suicide bombers, and ideas and practices related to oppression, including jihad, veiling, Islamic law, and the like (Park et al. 2007; Gottschalk and Greenberg 2008: 3).
