Sep 30 2004
Radicale Islam desintegreert eigen gemeenschap
“De angst voor nieuwe aanslagen belemmert in het Westen het zicht op de crisis die terreur veroorzaakt binnen de islam, betoogt David Ignatius.”
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Archive for September 30th, 2004
Sep 30 2004
Islam is niet de bron van alle ellende
In reactie op Paul Scheffers Herzberglezing en hij neemt en passant Bernard Lewis mee (zie hieronder): Dick Douwes, uitvoerend directeur van het International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) waarin de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Universiteit Leiden, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen en Universiteit Utrecht samenwerken. en voorzitter van de Vereniging voor Studie van het Midden-Oosten en Islam (MOI).
(artikel via Islam en Meer, copyright Trouw)
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Sep 30 2004
Is the clock ticking on Dutch Christianity?
Is the clock ticking on Dutch Christianity?
Expatica comments on this statement of Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch prime minister,: “I think you can no longer say that the Netherlands is still a Christian nation in the way we knew it to be in the past. But even if no one goes to church any more this doesn’t mean you have washed away the Christian roots just like that. In that sense we remain a Christian land.”
Expatica asks the very simple question the NRC did not ask: “What does Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende mean when he says the Netherlands will remain a Christian country even if everybody stops going to church?”
Sep 30 2004
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi: preaching violence
“Sept. 29 - In a further sign of the dramatic erosion of U.S. support in the Arab world, a prominent Islamic cleric who once forcefully condemned the September 11 attacks is now openly counseling his followers to resist the U.S. military in Iraq and to provide weapons and funds to the insurgents.”
Qardawi’s website: http://www.qardawi.net
Sep 30 2004
Terrorists grow fat on email scams | The Register
Terrorists grow fat on email scams: immediately I had to think about this email when I saw the news item that Al-Qaeda, ETA and PKK are copying Nigerian scams to fund terrorism:
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But as these people are probably more busy in plotting their next atrocity the Dutch daily De Telegraaf probably referred to these kind of messages:
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Sep 30 2004
“Europa wird am Ende des Jahrhunderts islamisch sein”
Much ado about the Bernard Lewis interview in Die Welt, also here the complete article.
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