Assignment task: Watch the Eagle's Hole in the World and answer the following questions. This was written after 9/11 when Muslim-Americans were being targeted in horrific hate crimes.
Q1. Why do people tend to assign identities to a group?
Q2. Just over a century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois posed a provocative question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk: "How does it feel to be a problem?" In 2009, Moustafa Bayoumi asks the same question about a new "problem" in the United States-in his book How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America. Hate crimes rose after 9/11 because people ignorantly associated all Muslims and Arabs with terrorists. Many also viewed the Quaran with violence. What do the Quaran and the Bible have in common?
Q3. Why do the lyrics, "All this fighting over who will be anointed" (Henly and Frey 2:44) mean?
Q4. Is there religious symbolism in this song? Quote, cite, and analyze.