Monthly Archive: February 2006
On several Dutch blogs a demonstration pro freedom of speech is announced: INN,RNC: Idealistic not naive, realistic not cynical You can find the announcement also on the website of the initiators Michiel and Jesse...
The Copenhagen Post: Moderate Muslims meet PM The newly founded group Democratic Muslims gives its advice to the prime minister for how to improve Muslim integration As the most heated rhetoric in the conflict...
One important thing of every affair of course is the battle for definitions. Different views of what is at stake here. Arabist.net for example refers to an article of Olivier Roy in Le Monde:...
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Prophet Muhammad at the Kaaba. Ok even een Nederlands rondgangetje. We beginnen natuurlijk bij Ayaan Hirsi Ali die zich al eerder met deze zaak bemoeit had en dat gisteren nog eens dunnetjes overdeed. the...
“Muhammad (c. 570–632) The Prophet of Islam. He is depicted holding the Qur’an. The Qur’an provides the primary source of Islamic Law. Prophet Muhammad’s teachings explain and implement Qur’anic principles. The figure above is...
His work has appeared for thirty-five years in major Arab daily newspapers as well as in Le Monde and other international publications. Farzat has served as the head of the Society of Arab Cartoonists...
De organisatie Hizb ut Tahrir heeft een pamflet verspreid in Amsterdam Geuzenveld (zoals gebruikelijk daar of in Bos en Lommer) in een reactie op het plaatsen van de Deense spotprenten door Geert Wilders op...
As I said earlier, the Cartoon row/controversy/rage/riot/jihad or whatever you want to call it, seems to have world divided in two. One camp the white knights of freedom of speech and on the other...
Muhammad at the Ka’ba. Siyer-i Nebi: The Life of the Prophet. Istanbul, 1595. Hazine 1222 Trying to untangle the cartoon row? The BBC has a nice overview of the different viewpoints: “The cartoons are...