House Muslims and Field Muslims - What are you?

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White Supremacy (Racism) - The Experiment

Last night I watched The Experiment (2010), a US remake of the 2001 German film Das Experiment, which explores what happened when 26 men were chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study. Both films are inspired by the 1971 Stanford prison experiment conducted by white American psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, Philip Zimbardo. (Additional sources of information include The Stanford Prison Experiment and The Lucifer Effect. Zimbardo's 2008 TED presentation "How people become monsters ... or heroes" is available here. I should also like to point interested readers to the following two articles (in PDF format) by Zimbardo which are available for download from the Publications section of his website Psychology of Evil (2000) and A Situationist Perspective on the Psychology of Evil Understanding How Good People Are Transformed into Perpetrators (2003).)

In this blog article, I want to look briefly at two issues (1) The Experiment as a metaphor for the globally operating system of White Supremacy (Racism), and (2) Zimbardo's invocation of the Judeo-Christian figure of Lucifer as guiding symbol in his socio-psychological explanation of the problem of institutional and/or systemic evil. I will approach both issues as an attempted Muslim conducting Islamic counter-Racist analysis.