Tourism, education, leisure and violence; it is not an obvious relationship but if you are into it you can try to join an Al Qaeda trainingscamp. I would not recommend that though, I would advice you to go to Israel and join anti-terrorism, fighting courses and so on. These are booming and well equipped according to newspaper Telegraaf.Continue Reading →
A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.) This week featuring debates about islamization.Continue Reading →
Political leaders, social movements and opinion leaders use visual rhetoric for the public representation and manipulation of their ideological messages by means of culturally recognizable symbols but (and this is the interesting part of chart wars) also by more abstract images conveying the message of chaos or order. What people need to know about the political power of visualizing data in 5 minuContinue Reading →
Geschreven wetten en regels zijn hard nodig in een maatschappij als de onze. En dus schrijven we de ongeschreven regels ook op. Een wekelijkse portie moralisme komt op u af via Closer.Continue Reading →
A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)Continue Reading →
Dutch politician Geert Wilders will be on trial for incitement to hatred and discrimination. This will be the first of a series of entries. Now: why and what is the case about?Continue Reading →
