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Research
A Global Study of Interfaith Relations offers insight into the state of relations between people of different religions around the world. Created in partnership with the Coexist Foundation, it marks Gallup’s first report of public perceptions concerning people of different faiths. In addition, the report provides an in-depth analysis of attitudes regarding integration among Muslims and the general public in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
See also Shelina Zahra Janmohamed at Comment is Free.
Religion & Politics
Pickled Politics » Geert Wilders’ great plan to save the west
Geert Wilders certainly believes in ‘freedom’, because he advocates a ten point plan to Save Western Civilisation:
1. Stop cultural relativism. We need an article in our constitutions that lays down that we have a Jewish-Christian and humanism culture.
2. Stop pretending that Islam is a religion. Islam is a totalitarian ideology. In other words, the right to religious freedom should not apply to Islam.
3. Stop mass immigration by people from Muslim countries. We have to end Al-Hijra.
4. Encourage voluntary repatriation.
5. Expel criminal foreigners and criminals with dual nationality, after denationalization, and send them back to their Arab countries. Likewise, expel all those who incite to a ‘violent jihad’.
6. We need an European First Amendment to strengthen free speech.
7. Have every member of a non-Western minority sign a legally binding contract of assimilation.
8. We need a binding pledge of allegiance in all Western countries.
9. Stop the building of new mosques. As long as no churches or synagogues are allowed to be build in countries like Saudi-Arabia we will not allow one more new mosque in our western countries. Close all mosques where incitement to violence is taking place. Close all Islamic schools, for they are fascist institutions and young children should not be educated an ideology of hate and violence.
10. Get rid of the current weak leaders. We have the privilege of living in a democracy. Let’s use that privilege and exchange cowards for heroes. We need more Churchills and less Chamberlains.
See also Back Towards The Locus
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: It’s time lily-livered Europe stood up to Muslim bigots | Opinion | The First Post
The terrifying paradox about these developments is that Muslim immigrants were admitted into European borders on the basis of universal rights and freedoms that a large number of them now trample on, while others perhaps watch passively, or seek to defend only the image of Islam.
Even worse, those who lobby to abolish freedom of expression and to discriminate against Jews, women and gays do so while using the vocabulary of freedom and through the institutions of parliament and the courts that were designed to protect the rights of all.
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In reality, if Europe falls, it’s not because of Islam. It is because the Europeans of today – unlike their forbears in the Second World War – will not die to defend the values or the future of Europe. Even if they were asked to make the final sacrifice, many a post-modern lily-livered European would escape into an obscure mesh of conscientious objection. All that Islam has to do is walk into the vacuum.
Islam and democracy can – and do – coexist | Turkish Forum
Throughout all this, skeptics have argued that this is a lost cause, and that democracy and Islam are incompatible.
So it is heartening to see the integration of democracy and Islam taking place in three huge countries whose Muslim populations make up somewhere between a quarter and a third of the world’s entire Muslim populace.
Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population (205 million), is undergoing national elections that will strengthen its steady democratic progress. India, which has a minority population of some 150 million Muslims, is finishing up month-long elections for a nation of more than 1 billion people. Turkey, with a Muslim population of 77 million, is a working example of a secular democracy in a Muslim country.
These examples may not offer a blueprint for the mostly undemocratic Arab world. But their success does offer welcome evidence that Islam and democracy can coexist, maybe even integrate.
“Clash” Euphamisms IV: Sectarian “war inside Islam” « The Shape Of The World
pumping up Sufism as a political opponent to Salafism/Wahabism is also a politicization of Islam. I thought politicizing Islam was a threat. I guess, what matters is the praxis and the end that the politicization of religion would serve.
Hawaii Lawmakers Back The Creation Of ‘Islam Day’ – CBS News
Hawaii Lawmakers Back A Plan To Celebrate ‘Islam Day’ Despite Some Objections
(AP) Hawaii’s state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate “Islam Day” _ over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn’t want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001.
Politic religion, again — Crooked Timber
While the aesthetic defence of religion offered by Terry Eagleton might appeal to a small fraction of the intelligentsia, a far more common belief is that, regardless of truth value, religious belief makes people better citizens, and should therefore be encouraged.
See also Stanley Fish blog at NYTimes.com
YouTube – US troops urged to share faith in Afghanistan – 04 May 09
US soldiers in Afghanistan have been filmed with local language Bibles and urged to be “witnesses for Jesus” despite anti-proselytising rules. Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports.
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War On Terror News: DoD Corrects the Story – “Evangelizing Afghanistan”
Corrects the Story – “Evangelizing Afghanistan”
Officials Reject Allegations of Proselytizing in Afghanistan“American servicemembers are allowed to hold religious services,” a Defense Department official speaking on background said. “The clip shows one of those services with an American chaplain leading a religious service for American servicemembers. In it, he spoke generically about the evangelical faith. That’s all there was to it.”
The chaplain did not urge servicemembers to go among the Afghan people and attempt to gain converts to Christianity, the official said.
[…]The film showed a discussion about the Bibles. “What it did not show was the chaplain counseling the young sergeant that distributing the Bibles was against U.S. Central Command’s General Order No. 1,” the official said. The chaplain confiscated the Bibles. “As far as we know, none ever got off base.”
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General Order No. 1 specifically forbids “proselytizing of any faith, religion or practice.”
Bonn und sein islamistisches Milieu
Von Christian Denso
Wie entstehen die Netzwerke radikaler Islamisten in Deutschland, wie etablieren und verändern sie sich? Beobachtungen in der kleinen Stadt am Rhein
Book Review – ‘The Accidental Guerrilla,’ by David Kilcullen – Review – NYTimes.com
THE ACCIDENTAL GUERRILLA
Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
By David Kilcullen
Illustrated. 346 pp. Oxford University Press. $27.95
David Kilcullen is a former officer in the Australian Army, a strategist and a scholar. He is also an expert on counterinsurgency, or how to combat a rebellion, and one of the few brave souls who had the ear of people in the Bush White House and advised against the invasion of Iraq.
“It’s going to take a lot more than you seem to be willing to commit,” he told the Americans. No one listened. After the invasion, Kilcullen watched the growing mayhem with outrage and dismay. This time people listened.
Gender
Princess Hijab: Advertising hijabist with a cause | Menassat
A young Paris-based guerilla street artist who calls herself Princess Hijab (PH) has been “hijabizing” advertisements, spray-painting veils and chadors onto the lightly dressed models. MENASSAT had a chat with the mysterious artist who says she is fighting Jihad through art.
Store bans those in burkhas after robbery – Times Online
Store bans those in burkhas after robbery
The Muslim owners of a Glasgow jewellers have decided not to serve veiled customers – but insist it isn’t due to racism
French Muslim Women: Daring to Take it to Court? – IslamOnline.net – European Muslims
Are you a French Muslim woman? Do you consider your veil an obstacle to having an active and productive live? Do you consider “the court option” as a last resort for overcoming your challenges?
the misogyny of the Ummah – City of Brass
I often find fault with the way in which Yasmin Alibhai-Brown makes her arguments in the pages of the Independent, but I have to concede that on the merits, her main arguments are usually sound. Her latest essay is a good example – she labels the state of women in the Ummah “a dark age” and it’s impossible for me to find honest fault with that assessment.
See also the comments at Indigo Jo.
The Difficulty of Being a Modern Muslim Woman
The Muslim gender dynamic – supposedly a singular, unchanging construct – has become a spectacle for everyone to gawk at, comment on, and ultimately use to ridicule the larger Muslim community.
But it is not just our neighbors who are gawking; Muslims often find themselves feeling awkward as well, especially as the news becomes stranger and more prevalent. Part of this is about Western Muslim women trying to make sense of supposedly religiously motivated gender oppression, but much of this is about reflecting on our individual spiritual cores – the place where we, in our quiet moments, wonder about our identity vis-à-vis the world, the part of us that cowers under the spotlight.
This self-reflection involves quite a bit of confusion, as it is hard to reconcile the heart-wrenching news of oppression with our daily experience of meeting, interacting with, living among – being – strong, confident, successful Muslim women.
Rights Versus Rites | The American Prospect
When it comes to the lives of women around the globe, do local traditions ever trump human rights?
Michelle Goldberg | April 28, 2009
On Feb. 6, 2007, two women, both of whom had been circumcised in Africa, met in the conference room of a small foundation on Fifth Avenue in New York City for a highly unusual debate. It was the fourth annual International Day of Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation, an occasion for events across the globe dedicated to abolishing the practice. The gathering drew about 30 women, half of them African immigrants from countries including Senegal, Sudan, and Kenya, where female circumcision is common. Several of them were shocked to realize that, despite the name of the event, this wasn’t so much a discussion about how female circumcision can be eradicated as about whether it should be.[..]At first glance, the two speakers seemed to symbolize the dichotomy between modernity and tradition, cosmopolitanism and cultural authenticity. Fuambai Ahmadu, the American-born daughter of a Sierra Leonean family, wore knee-high leather boots under a stylish rust-colored skirt. A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, she looked younger than her 40 years. Beside her was Grace Mose, regal in a red African tunic, matching skirt, and head wrap. Her perfect English was deeply accented by her native Kenya, where she had grown up in an Abagusii village in the country’s southwest region. It was easy to imagine her as a champion of the line of midwives who have made their living cutting girls since the beginning of recorded history, women who are now being jailed in some countries for practicing a trade that once brought them money and pride.
But it wasn’t that simple. Ahmadu, not Mose, is the high-profile defender of female circumcision and the role it can play in inducting African girls into their societies. “My sitting here is a perfect example that female initiation can have a place in a global society,” she insisted. “I don’t see that initiation is somehow an impediment to girls’ development.” Circumcision and all that it represents in her culture, she said, “is an important source of my social identity. It’s what links me with my mother, my grandmothers, my aunts, my female ancestors. It celebrates our history, our connection.”
As she spoke, Mose, a fervent campaigner against the practice, glared at her. Unruffled, Ahmadu continued, arguing that in Sierra Leone, “female circumcision is empowering.” Toward the end of the debate, a Senegalese woman, incensed by Ahmadu, stood up and said, “I really feel very frustrated seeing an African sister defending female genital mutilation.” A few people applauded. She herself, she said, had not been cut and saw the practice as indefensible. “There is one thing we have to clarify. We have used here the term ‘female circumcision,’ which is a term that I do not like at all. Because it puts together two things that are totally different. We [should] talk about female mutilation. Why? When we circumcise a boy, that is skin that is cut off. Now when a female is, I’ll say, excised, that is the whole part that is taken out. That is completely different!”
Middle East
Egypt Has Yet to Feel Impact of FGM Ban
Egypt Has Yet to Feel Impact of FGM Ban
By Iman AzziIn the year since Egypt outlawed female genital mutilation the government hasn’t prosecuted a single case. Nonetheless, some activists say the law is a tool, among others, for gradually dismantling an ancient tradition.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood dismisses Obama speech | Reuters
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood dismisses Obama speech
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood dismissed Saturday U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to deliver a speech to the Muslim world from Egypt as part of a plan to keep Arab and Muslim states divided.
A Palestinian remembers the Holocaust – Haaretz – Israel News
A Palestinian remembers the Holocaust
By Aziz Abu SarahA few weeks ago, the world commemorated Holocaust Day with memorials, moments of silence, and time taken to remember the lives of loved ones lost.
For years this day has been a source of internal conflict for me as a Palestinian, so this year my wife Marie and I decided to hold our own memorial by doing something I have put off for a long time: we watched the movie “Schindler?s List.”
Canada’s Saviour Complex is Getting Old: Afghani Women and Canada « Muslim Lookout
The Ottawa Citizen perpetuates the myth that Western invasion has somehow been beneficial for Afghani women and it is just those “barbaric” Afghani men who are hurting women. It continues to paint Muslim women as oppressed damsels in distress and Muslim men as barbarians and monsters, thus perpetuating this racist discourse. It shifts the blame away from Western forces who have backed and supported the oppressive and violent regimes, and onto those “barbaric” Muslim men, because of course only they are capable of such actions (sarcasm). Such reporting only continues to hide the complacency and agency of Western forces in the continued oppression of Afghani women and dupes Canadians into thinking that our presence in Afghanistan is somehow beneficent. The reality, as we hear from Afghani women themselves, couldn’t be further from the truth.
altmuslimah.com – Saudi Arabia: It’s the first Saudi fashion show… no cameras allowed!
Saudi Arabia’s first women’s fashion show was held by the Nafisat Shams Al Biqa’ Academy in Jeddah last month, despite a restricted audience, clerical resistance, and a mixed reaction from the Saudi public. Nevertheless, it remains a breakthrough for Saudi fashion designers and for Saudi women in general.
True Muslim society protects women – Winnipeg Free Press
By: Shahina Siddiqui
The news of the brutal murder of Sitara Achakzai, a female member of Kandahar’s Provincial Council, earlier this month comes on the heel of the excruciating video of a young girl in Swat, Pakistan, being flogged by men in a public square for refusing to marry a man of her family’s choice. There is other news of lashings, floggings, maimings and murder of Muslim women at the hands of Muslim men from every corner of the Muslim world and I, a Muslim woman, can only cringe and cry out to the Creator for mercy and justice. Why is this barbarity being inflicted on my sisters, oh Lord, and why are these perpetrators going unpunished?
The era in which female babies were buried alive in Arabia is called the age of ignorance (jahiliya) — this is the era that Islam came to abolish, so it pains me to ask why we have returned to it. Can we blame this on war, poverty and foreign occupation? Can we really and truly look into the eyes of these women and offer such excuses for our inhumanity?
What is most disturbing is that these criminal behaviours are being cloaked in religious terms and there seems to be no credible voice challenging this gross violation of Islamic law and so these criminals continue to go about terrorizing with impunity. The continued silence of our scholars around the world is deafening and perplexing.
Myanmar tops list of worst places to be a blogger – CNN.com
Bloggers in Myanmar, Iran and Syria work under some of the most repressive conditions in the world, facing tactics such as regulation, intimidation and even imprisonment, according to a report from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Myanmar, where students sit at an Internet cafe, tops a list of the worst places to be a blogger.Myanmar, where students sit at an Internet cafe, tops a list of the worst places to be a blogger.
The organization released a list of the “10 worst countries to be a blogger” to call attention to online oppression in connection with World Press Freedom Day, which was observed Sunday.
“Bloggers are at the vanguard of the information revolution, and their numbers are expanding rapidly,” the group’s executive director, Joel Simon, said in a report posted on the organization’s Web site. “But governments are quickly learning how to turn technology against bloggers by censoring and filtering the Internet, restricting online access and mining personal data.
“When all else fails, the authorities simply jail a few bloggers to intimidate the rest of the online community into silence or self-censorship.”
Black Iraqis make their political debut in provincial polls | World news | guardian.co.uk
In Iraq’s deep south another American-led revolution is stirring. But this time it is being sparked by popular voice, not bombs.
The country’s 1m-plus black citizens have tapped into Obama-mania like few other groups across the Arab world. For them Obama’s inauguration was the dawn of a civil rights movement that they never had the impetus to strive for.
Black Iraqis will this week stand for the first time as an electoral bloc in provincial polls that will help shape Iraq in its slow transition to full sovereignty and possibly help shake off the stereotype that places them near the top of the heap in a nation of persecuted minorities.
Op-Ed Contributor – Hamas Comes Out of Hiding – NYTimes.com
Pressed on policy changes that Hamas might make as a gesture to any new order, Mr. Mishal argued that the organization has already shifted on several key points: “Hamas has already changed — we accepted the national accords for a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, and we took part in the 2006 Palestinian elections.”
On the crucial question of rewriting the Hamas charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel, he was unbending: “Not a chance.” Khalid Mishal is not Yasir Arafat — he is not looking for a Nobel Peace Prize. Among the Hamas articles of faith is a belief that in renouncing violence and in recognizing Israel’s right to exist in 1993, Mr. Arafat sinned against his people. (Nonetheless, others to whom he speaks have told me that Mr. Mishal has said that “when the time comes,” Hamas will make some of the moves demanded of it by the West.)
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Over the long term, Hamas accepts the concept of two states in the Levant, which arguably puts Mr. Mishal’s terrorist movement closer to Washington than Mr. Netanyahu is — he now proposes only “economic peace” between Jews and Palestinians.
Dutch
Surinaamse Nederlanders perfect geïntegreerd? – WERELDOMROEP – Surinaams
Schuster over de perfect geïntegreerde Surinamer: “Het is werkelijkheid, want Surinamers scoren hoog op alle indicatoren waar integratie op gemeten wordt.” Maar er zit volgens de antropoloog toch een mythische kant aan dit integratieverhaal. En dat is de boodschap die overgebracht wordt naar andere nieuwkomers. Schuster: “Aan de andere groepen wordt gezegd dat je pas perfect geïntegreerd bent als je doet zoals de Surinamers en dus eigenlijk doet zoals wij.”
Helaas moet het bestuur van de Poldermoskee constateren dat we -door financiële perikelen- niet de stappen vooruit kunnen maken, die wij zo graag willen maken. Om de deuren open te houden heeft de Poldermoskee geld nodig. Daarom staat de maand mei in het teken van de Doneermaand van de Poldermoskee. Tijdens deze maand worden tal van educatieve, maatschappelijke en religieuze activiteiten georganiseerd met als belangrijkste doel: geld inzamelen. Op deze website kun je precies lezen welke activiteiten worden georganiseerd en hoe jij jouw bijdrage aan de Poldermoskee kunt leveren!
Nederlands Dagblad – SGP-jongeren blijven tegen moskeeën
door onze redacteur Aldwin Geluk
De SGP-jongeren stellen in hun nieuwe beginselverklaring ,,christelijk verdraagzaam” te zijn, maar willen desondanks de bouw van moskeeën verbieden. Op de foto de Selimiye moskee, die op 23 februari 2008 voor de Turkse gemeenschap in Haarlem geopend werd.APELDOORN – In de nieuwe beginselen stellen de SGP-jongeren ,,christelijk verdraagzaam” te zijn, maar de SGP-jeugd wil desondanks de bouw van moskeeën verbieden.
Bond tegen vloeken vangt bot om film ”God bestaat niet” – Binnenland – Reformatorisch Dagblad
De Bond tegen het vloeken heeft opnieuw verloren in zijn strijd tegen het RVU-programma ”God bestaat niet”.
VEENENDAAL – De Bond tegen het vloeken heeft opnieuw verloren in zijn strijd tegen het RVU-programma ”God bestaat niet”, waarin filmpjes met Jezus Christus aangelijnd als hond werden getoond.
Protest tegen blasfemische filmpjes loopt op niets uit – Binnenland – Reformatorisch Dagblad
Protest tegen blasfemische filmpjes loopt op niets uit
AMSTERDAM – Het Amsterdamse gerechtshof ziet geen strafbaar feit in het uitbeelden van de Heere Jezus als aangelijnde hond, zo werd vrijdag bekend. Het protest van de Bond tegen het vloeken tegen de RVU-film ”God bestaat niet” is daarmee op niets uitgelopen. Waar gaat de kwestie precies over? Vijf vragen.
„Wet moet tegen smaad beschermen” – Binnenland – Reformatorisch Dagblad
„Wet moet tegen smaad beschermen”
DEN HAAG – De wet moet garanties bieden aan mensen die zich buitengesloten voelen wegens smaad en godslastering.
Dat stelt CDA-Kamerlid Van Haersma Buma desgevraagd naar aanleiding van de uitspraak van het Amsterdamse gerechtshof in de zaak tussen de Bond tegen het vloeken en de RVU.
De rechtbank ziet geen reden de RVU te vervolgen vanwege blasfemische beelden.
Moslims: ‘Gescheiden kamers in ziekenhuizen’ – Binnenland – Algemeen – bndestem
Moslims: ‘Gescheiden kamers in ziekenhuizen’
door Cyril Rosman
BREDA/BERGEN OP ZOOM – Moslimorganisaties in Breda hebben bij het Amphia Ziekenhuis aangedrongen mannen en vrouwen weer op aparte kamers te verplegen. “Veel moslimvrouwen vinden het uit religieuze overtuiging niet prettig een halfnaakte man in het bed naast hen te hebben”, zegt Driss Siraji, die namens de Migrantenraad en de Arrahmanmoskee met het ziekenhuis sprak.
Allochtonenweblog: De opkomst van de polderislam
Terwijl Geert Wilders hamert op de islamitische samenzwering, zoeken moslimjongeren naar manieren om hun geloof in te bedden in hun Nederlandse bestaan. Er ontstaat een gematigde ‘polderislam’. Dat is deze week te lezen in een dossier in De Groene Amsterdammer. Een artikel van Joeri Boom staat online, voor het artikel ‘hoe kweek je polderimams?’en ‘lessen voor gematigde moslims’ van Fouad Laroui moet je naar de kiosk.
Wereldjournalisten Geschiedenis Marokkanen
Geschiedenis Marokkanen
Donderdag 07 mei 2009 | Redactie Wereldjournalisten
Na de Slovenen en de Italianen is het nu de beurt aan de Marokkanen om hun geschiedenis te vertellen. Op 10 mei wordt het boek “Marokkanen in Nederland. De pioniers vertellen” gepresenteerd in het Museon in Den Haag. Het is het vierde boek in vier maanden tijd over migratiegeschiedenis.
AD.nl – Buitenland – Paus: Diep respect voor islam
Paus: Diep respect voor islam
AMMAN – Paus Benedictus XVI is gisteren in Jordanië begonnen aan zijn eerste reis naar het Midden-Oosten. Koning Abdullah II en koningin Rania van Jordanië wachtten hem met honderden christenen op de luchthaven van Amman op.
afbeelding vergroten Welkom voor de Paus bij aankomst in Amman, Jordanië. FOTO EPA
De paus wil met zijn achtdaagse bezoek de kloof met joden en moslims overbruggen.
Islam in het Westen: Koninginnedag 2009: drama of terreur?
Het ‘incident’ dat een einde maakte aan Apeldoorns Koninginnedag eiste tot nu toe 7 doden, onder wie de dader, en 8 gewonden. Dit incident is veelzeggend. Niet omdat, zoals de media graag wil, Koninginnedag nooit mee hetzelfde zal zijn, maar omdat het ongewild de definitie van terreur heeft verduidelijkt.
AD.nl – Binnenland – Verbijstering over problemen moskee
Verbijstering over problemen moskee
ROTTERDAM – De Rotterdamse gemeenteraad reageert verbijsterd op het zoveelste probleem met de nieuwe Essalam-moskee in Feijenoord.
afbeelding vergroten De Essalam moskee in aanbouw. FOTO CEES KUIPER
De bouwwerkzaamheden zijn – voor de derde keer in twee jaar – grotendeels stilgelegd. Dit keer omdat de opdrachtgever uit de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten al geruime tijd de rekeningen niet heeft betaald.De bouw van het gebedshuis duurt nu al ruim zes jaar.
Amsterdam zet punt achter contract met moskeeën – Nederland – Dagblad van het Noorden
Het Amsterdamse stadsdeel De Baarsjes gaat niet verder met het contract met enkele moskeeën. Die overeenkomst uit 2004 had onder meer als doel extremisme tegen te gaan. Dat heeft het stadsdeel zaterdag laten weten.
Door het contract te ondertekenen beloofden de moskeeën in de gaten te houden of personen radicaliseerden. Zo ja, dan zouden ze met diegenen in gesprek gaan. Bij strafbare feiten zouden de gebedshuizen aangifte doen bij de politie.
De overeenkomst heeft echter nauwelijks bijgedragen aan het signaleren van extremisme.
Nationaliteit van een moslim en zijn geloof « Islamtawheed’s Blog
Islam kwam om slechts één relatie te vestigen die de mens verbind met elkaar voor in het zicht van Allah, en als deze relatie sterk gevestigd is, dan zullen alle andere relaties gebasseerd op bloed of andere omstandigheden te niet worden gedaan.
NOSJOURNAAL – Berisping voor ‘zittende advocaat’
De Rotterdamse advocaat Mohammed Enait is berispt, omdat hij weigert op te staan als de rechter de zaal inkomt. De deken van de Orde van Advocaten had daarover geklaagd.
Als Enait na de berisping opnieuw in de rechtszaal blijft zitten, zal de Raad van Discipline hem schorsen.
Oplossing voor Diamantbuurt-tuig | KAJ’S BLOG
Al die Marokkanen hier die zich keurig gedragen en gewoon lekker willen leven zoals iedereen, zijn het spuugzat dat zo’n kleine groep criminelen het telkens weer voor hen verpest. Want al deze Marokkanen worden aangekeken op de acties van die criminelen. Veruit de meeste Marokkanen hebben hun keuze al lang geleden gemaakt; het aantal Marokkanen dat destijds op Pim Fortuyn stemde, mag niet onderschat worden.
Die kleine groep criminelen zijn overigens geen ‘Robin Hoods’, of anderszins subculturele helden, voorbeelden voor hun jongere broertjes, een rol waar die criminelen zich maar al te graag in wentelen als een soort van bescherming. Nee, zij zijn degenen die het louter om geld te doen is en die het voor Marokkanen juist vergallen.
Het is dit soort crimineel gedrag, in combinatie met hun Marokkaanse afkomst, die mensen als Geert Wilders steeds weer ammunitie geven om de héle Marokkaanse gemeenschap over één kam te scheren. Dat soort stigmatisering – want dat is het – geeft die harde criminelen een warm bedje, een muur (de Marokkaanse gemeenschap) waarachter zij zich kunnen verschuilen, een manier om zich in de slachtoffer-rol te kunnen wentelen. Dat moet gestopt worden.
Er rest de landelijke politiek nu niets anders meer dan de korpsbeheerders te voorzien van gereedschap waarmee zij deze hardcore criminele Marokkanen uit hun gemeenschap kunnen halen, en isoleren.
Allerachterste Rij: Marokkaanse netheid
Een gevoel van opluchting ging door de coupé, en de hele situatie werd prachtig opgesomd door een vrouw van middelbare leeftijd: “stelletje idioten…” Een korte dank kwam tussen de lippen van de jongedame vandaan, snel gevolgd door zichtbare tanden en het omkrullen van de lippen. De hele situatie stelde niet veel voor. Er werden geen zwaarden getrokken, of met pijl en boog geschoten, om de hand van deze jongedame te winnen. Nee, het was gewoon een alledaagse situatie waarin twee hufters anderen lastigvallen. Ik was blij dat het niet om twee Marokkanen ging, want je ziet tegenwoordig toch zo veel. Het toppunt was natuurlijk de ingeburgerde Marokkaanse jongen die hier juist als een held zijn mond opendeed.