C L O S E R – Back from liminoid
Well, hello there. It’s been a while. I think besides during my stay in Morocco a few years ago, there was never a ‘blog-less’ period that was so long. Holidays (indeed, that was my liminoid phase), writing research applications, writing two chapters of my Ph.D (yes!) and a lot of small things kept me away from here. Not that there wasn’t anything to blog about. Let me give you a small tour of what happened and what would certainly have been part of the blog:
A Romeo and Juliet story
St. Paul Pioneer Press | 08/09/2006 | Love in the time of holy war
Love in the time of holy war
More than distance and prison separate a Muslim extremist and his Jewish girlfriend.
Racialization of Muslims
spiked | Making Muslims into a race apart
Making Muslims into a race apart
In his TV show on British Muslims, Jon Snow was more anthropologist than journalist, trekking to an exotic land to meet apparently peculiar people.
Some things about Israël and Hezbollah
towards God is our journey
Muslim disagreement on the ‘Party of God’
The Qana Conspiracy Theory – World Opinion Roundup
The Qana Conspiracy Theory
Some things about irritating aircraft passengers a.k.a. terrorists
Mirror.co.uk – News – EXCLUSIVE: MALAGA JET MUTINY PAIR’S SHOCK AT PLANE EJECTION
EXCLUSIVE: MALAGA JET MUTINY PAIR’S SHOCK AT PLANE EJECTION
Sohail Ashraf & Khuram Zeb
We just couldn’t believe they feared we were bombers We’re ordinary Asian lads who only wanted some fun
The Peninsula On-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
All is well, say Indians in terror scare
Some Dutch stuff
NRC Handelsblad – Digitale Editie – Zaterdag 26 augustus 2006
Strijd in Midden-Oosten bewijst het failliet van de koude oorlog tegen de moslimdemocraten
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
NRC Handelsblad – Digitale Editie – Zaterdag 26 augustus 2006
Ook ik had een martelaar voor Allah kunnen worden
Naema Tahir
Het is, in je hoofd, niet eens zo’n grote stap, martelaar worden voor de islam. Toen schrijfster Naema Tahir als ontheemde puber klem zat tussen Pakistan, Engeland en Nederland, lokte het gastvrije hemelse paradijs heel wat meer dan het verwarrende leven als immigrant.
AD.nl – 24 uur per dag actueel nieuws /
Groei islamitische basisschool Gouda zet door
STOPlog
De Vliegeraar
Dit boek geeft je het gevoel de geschiedenis van de laatste 30 jaar in Afghanistan van binnenuit te hebben beleefd. Daarin is schrijver Khaled Hosseini zondermeer geslaagd. De Vliegeraar van Kabul is een verpletterend boek dat je van het begin tot het eind gevangen houdt. Net als een vlieger zal de lezer het verhaal ook daarna niet meer loslaten, zoals dat bij bepaalde boeken het geval is.
Trouw, deVerdieping| letter-geest – Veroordeeld tot verstoting uit de maatschappij
Veroordeeld tot verstoting uit de maatschappij
door Joshua Livestro
Essayist Joshua Livestro signaleert een streven om te willen terugkeren naar vroeger, ’naar de tijd van vóór de polarisering, vóór de kogels, de messteken en de harde woorden over de (radicale) islam’.
Maar ’wat bedoeld is als een herstel van oude verhoudingen, draagt in praktijk vooral bij aan de voortschrijdende islamisering van de Nederlandse samenleving’. Degenen die zich hiertegen verzetten, worden maatschappelijk verstoten.
Een gevalletje ‘vrijheid van meningsuiting’ van iemand die zich presenteert als de ridder van het vrije woord, maar dat beter niet kan doen (ook al had hij in de kwestie zelf gelijk).
Some interesting research stuff
Pearsall’s Books: Pentecostalism and the Berbers
Pentecostalism and the Berbers
rfmcdpei: [BRIEF NOTE] The Christianization of Kabylia?
The Christianization of Kabylia?
Something about free speech
Raed in the Middle: back from the mideast
One of the two men who approached me first, Inspector Harris, asked for my id card and boarding pass. I gave him my boarding pass and driver’s license. He said “people are feeling offended because of your t-shirt”. I looked at my t-shirt: I was wearing my shirt which states in both Arabic and English “we will not be silent”. You can take a look at it in this picture taken during our Jordan meetings with Iraqi MPs. I said “I am very sorry if I offended anyone, I didnt know that this t-shirt will be offensive”. He asked me if I had any other T-shirts to put on, and I told him that I had checked in all of my bags and I asked him “why do you want me to take off my t-shirt? Isn’t it my constitutional right to express myself in this way?” The second man in a greenish suit interfered and said “people here in the US don’t understand these things about constitutional rights”. So I answered him “I live in the US, and I understand it is my right to wear this t-shirt”.
Something strange
There is this funny video I found only recently seems to make clear why we, men, never should be allowed to come close to an iron (which is undoubtedly true of course 😉 ). Funny thing is though that the same video was emailed to me and the video there was called: muslim-of-the-week (moslim-van-de-week). Don’t know how people know if this guy is a Muslim or not and I don’t know what it means this name change (there was no comment in the email), but nevertheless I found it remarkable. Another thing that is remarkable; I do a lot of stupid things every day and luckily no cameras around, while this one is filmed in such a way (angle) that the effect would be clear. So it is probably fake. But still, it is funny, so here watch it yourself:
Totallycrap: Call me on My Mobile
And something funny
Austin Powers in Goldmember – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* Goldmember: “Hey, everybody! I’m from Holland! Isn’t that vierd?”
* Goldmember: “Look everyvone! My vinky vas a key!” (triumphantly holds up his penis/spare tractor-beam key)
Nigel Powers: “Only a bloody Dutchman!”
* Nigel Powers: “There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures…and the Dutch. ”
So, yes, that means that I’m back from going liminoid, but still without an answer to the most important question in the blogosphere: what’s the use of blogging? And for the people who have noticed that this blog wasn’t online the last few days, religionresearch.org (of which this blog is part of) had exceeded the bandwith limit. Mainly due to my blog but I don’t know why: a hundred and something visitors isn’t enough for that. So is anyone stealing my bandwith?
