It took us six years, but I’m very pleased to announce that, at last, our book: Islamic Militant Activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany – ‘Islands in a sea of disbelief’ (Palgrave 2020) has been published. The book, written with my wonderful colleagues Carmen Becker and Ineke Roex, is a revised and updated version […]
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Inleidende lezing tijdens de boekpresentatie van Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands – Critical perspectives on violence and security (Bloomsbury, 2019) 12 juni jongstleden. Mede namens Nadia Fadil en Francesco Ragazzi heet ik u van harte welkom op de presentatie van ons boek Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands – Critical perspectives on violence and […]
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In dit essay bekijk ik hoe het gedachtegoed van Fortuyn zowel een continuering als een breuk met het verleden is in de racialisering van moslims.
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Salafisme. Utopische idealen in een weerbarstige praktijk dat ik heb geschreven met Joas Wagemakers en Carmen Becker verschijnt op woensdag 14 mei.
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How were the lives of Muslims in interwar Europe? The Documentary Karlstraße 10 starts in an online telephone directory searching for an Arab family name in nowadays Germany to end in telling many stories about Muslims throughout interwar Europe. An Arab-Ottoman officer Zeki Kiram takes on a life journey with an amputated leg in interwar […]
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Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, department of Islamstudies and Fahm Institute cordially invite you to prof. Farid Esack’s lecture: “Islamism and Islamic Liberation Theology – A Critical Intellectual Genealogy” Date: 11 December 2020 Time: 19.30 Venue: online Apply: please send an email to cursus@fahminstituut.nl In this lecture prof. Esack will engage with the
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Guest Author: Thijl Sunier Political debates, even formal ones in Parliament, have increasingly become platforms for excitable political rhetoric and public performance. Last week two debates in the Dutch Parliament reached the headlines and became trending topic on Twitter. Although different topics, the debates converged in a remarkable way and revealed the current political climate […]
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Bovenstaande opdracht deed de ronde op sociale media en is afkomstig van Visser ‘t Hooft Lyceum in Leiden. De school kwam daarna met het volgende statement waaruit blijkt dan men de pedagogische opdracht dat alle leerlingen zich veilig en gewaardeerd moeten voelen, niet helemaal begrijpt. De opdracht: Schrijfopdracht (telt twee keer mee voor het rapport) […]
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About 200 academics call upon European countries to take immediate action to repatriate their nationals from the detention camps of northeastern Syria. Read the call here. The issue of repatriating European nationals who joined various groups, including Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, has divided European public opinion. There are currently more than 400 European […]
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From University of Toronto, Institute for Islamic Studies: On Oct 16th, a French schoolteacher in the suburbs of Paris named Samuel Paty was murdered by a Muslim man for showing his classroom caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The aftermath has placed Islam and Muslims under scrutiny with the government claiming that “Islamist separatism” is challenging […]
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In his book Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today (Princeton UP, 2019), John Tolan analyzes the perceptions of Muhammad as understood by Christian Europeans. He shows the complexity and variety of these portrayals in a broad range of sources from theater to religion and often […]
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Vandaag in 2004 werd Theo van Gogh vermoord. In de nasleep ervan ging het racismedebat in Nederland door, toegespitst op de vrijheid van meningsuiting in relatie tot islam en moslims en hun vermeende lange tenen. Wat heeft dat debat ons gebracht? De afgelopen dagen geeft een aardig inkijkje voor een algemene indruk. Dus we zijn […]
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Naar aanleiding van de recente brute moord op de Franse leraar Samuel Paty, hebben enkele organisaties van moslims verklaringen uitgegeven (zoals ook al in eerdere gevallen is gebeurd, bijvoorbeeld in 2015, 2016, 2017, en 2019. Overlegorgaan Joden, Christenen en Moslims (OJCM) Druk vanuit ouders op lessen is onaanvaardbaar Afgelopen week zijn wij opgeschrikt door de […]
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After the horrible killing of French teacher Samuel Paty after showing cartoons of the prophet Muhammed in a class about freedom of speech, the discussion about Islam, laïcité en the French Republic is back on the front pages. In this episide of Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post some more insight on secularism and Islam in […]
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