Author: martijn

Opgeruimd staat Netjes? 1

Opgeruimd staat Netjes?

Er is al veel gezegd en geschreven over de interviews van politici op de website van de As-Soennah moskee Al-Yaqeen. Het interview dat het meeste stof heeft doen opwaaien is toch wel van CDA politica Rena Netjes. Het is een nogal onhandig en soms ‘een beetje dom’ interview in een tijd waarin de islamneurose zo groot is dat iemand die het op zou nemen voor moslims schijnbaar door de mangel gehaald moet worden. ***UPDATED!***

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Closing the week 23

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.)

Radicalization Series – Part I: The slippery slope of ethnic profiling 12

Radicalization Series – Part I: The slippery slope of ethnic profiling

The report, Ethnic Profiling in the European Union: Pervasive, Ineffective, and Discriminatory, details widespread profiling in France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and other EU member states. Much of the counterradicalization policies has been based on the idea of a slippery slope but in practice it is ethnic profiling that resembles slippery slope and is often more of a public relations stunt than a real response to crime and radicalization. I will discuss the report briefly here and give extensive quotes based upon the Dutch situation. This is part one of a series of entries on the issue of radicalization.

Rwina – Stijl in debat 3

Rwina – Stijl in debat

Wat rwina is? Lastig te vertalen, maar het komt neer op herrie, kabaal, chaos. Rwina maken of rwina doen is de boel op stelten zetten. Een voorbeeld is Rondom 10 van afgelopen zaterdag over ‘Wordt het nog wat met Marokkaans Nederland’? De uitzending leverde diverse reacties op bijvoorbeeld bij Marokko.nl en op andere sites. Daarbij ging het onder meer over de debatstijl van de aanwezigen die als onbeschaafd en onnederlands of juist als te Nederlands werd aangemerkt. Dergelijke categoriseringen laten zien dat een debat meer is dan alleen een inhoudelijke uitwisseling van standpunten, een podium voor het vormen vormen, beleven en uiten van identiteiten en belangen.

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Closing the week 22

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). This week the overview is very long and only consists of articles I have come across. This week’s suggestions from readers will be used next week. Keep sending them in!

The power of images – Muslima ads 3

The power of images – Muslima ads

The image of the Muslims woman, the way the appear in public and her type of dress in public is one of the battle grounds on which the integration struggle takes place. This time it is about the public campaign of the province of Overijssel which features a girl with a headscarf that leads some people to engage in actions against the billboards by claiming Overijssel is not Islamic.

Double Dutch 3

Double Dutch

It is 400 years ago that the first Dutch people founded New Amsterdam, the place that is currently known as Manhattan. For both the US and the Netherlands (ok and Belgium too) it seems to have become an event celebrating their self-proclaimed image of progress, pioneership, entrepeneurship, tolerance and (delusions of) grandeur. There has been some criticism about the (positive) way current Dutch society is covered in the American press but what is left out is the Dutch involvement in slave trade and the way they dealt with Native Americans.