Islamitische bevrijdingstheologie in een tijd van terreur. Een impressie van de lezing van Farid Esack.
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Dead white men are revered by many as responsible for the advancement of civilisation, says sociology professor Kehinde Andrews. But, he argues, this so-called progress came at the expense of millions of people of colour. Global inequality is not an accident, he argues – it is designed to keep the hierarchy of race intact
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The Swiss state has won the case of Osmanoǧlu and Kocabaş v. Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) obliging parents to send their children to mixed swimming lessons . The case was brought by two Turkish-Swiss nationals who refused to send their teenage daughters to the compulsory mixed lessons. The couple argued […]
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How Thomas Evans went from pub-going electrician in High Wycombe to Al-Shabaab fighter in Somalia with 13-year-old bride. While Jalila's a committed party girl, her twin sister Jamila tried to go to Syria and is now on remand in Holloway.
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Omdat 2017 waarschijnlijk niet wezenlijk anders zal zijn dan 2016, een interview met hoogleraar Ruud Koopmans in het AD. Koopmans is een vooraanstaand en internationaal gerenommeerd socioloog. Hij heeft vooral naam gemaakt met onderzoek naar politieke claims en politieke participatie van moslims. Het brede publiek kent hem waarschijnlijk vanwege zijn onderzoek onder moslims naar fundamentalisme [&
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John Peter Berger died on 2 January 2017: an art critic, painter, poet and novelist. John Berger (1926–2017) – artforum.com / news The art critic and novelist John Berger has died at the age of ninety. While he was perhaps best known for the television series and complementing book Ways of Seeing (1972), Berger ranged […]
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