Through the Eyes of the Students: Muslim Idenity

My general research statement is how practicing Muslims, non-practicing Muslims and non-Muslims view the identity of Muslims on our campus and the ways that these different groups coexist. I will be interviewing three different people: one practicing Indian Muslim, another non-practicing Turkish Muslim and then one Christian Korean who spends times in different organizations with different groups of people including Muslims. I am hoping to get an idea of how they perceive the identity of themselves and use what they have said in addition to my own ethnographic research of different places that Muslims interact. I will also be breaking each area down and seeing if I can get an idea of how Muslims on our campus find different activities which don???t include sexual activities and alcoholic parties or if they succumb to this college lifestyle. My main goal in this is to get an idea of how Muslims fit together with other groups of people and see if they are discriminated for their choices. Do some give in or do they hold strong to Islam? There are organizations which I want to research and see how they provided alternatives to these so called ???evils???. I am also interested in observing locations where visible Muslims and other groups interact (such as the ARC, Mosque, lecture halls, libraries, public places, etc). This is all building to see how students see each other and the way they interact on Campus. I???m hoping to discover the identity that Muslims see in their groups and the identity that other people see in them. With this, I'm hoping to get a connection with the interviews I will be holding and with my own research in these different locations