Ramadan in Europe – A Youtube Essay I: First Day
Ramadan in Europe: A Youtube essay. A five part series on the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan, among Muslims in Europe. Part I: the start.
An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
Ramadan in Europe: A Youtube essay. A five part series on the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan, among Muslims in Europe. Part I: the start.
Wat niet-handenschudden en niet-vasten met elkaar gemeen hebben.
Liz Fekete talks about whether Islamophobia serves a function; drawing on her recent research into the Oslo massacre and the European-wide assault on multiculturalism, she contextualises Islamophobia in terms of the policies that give credence to the new politics of hate.
De Europese vlag op de Stopera in Amsterdam. Waarom ophef over dit vlagvertoon? Over nationalisme en Europa.
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.)
In de media lijkt het alsof Wilders de islam heeft ingeruimd voor Europa als verkiezingsthema. Niets is minder waar, weliswaar is islam minder prominent aanwezig de perverse en gevaarlijke ‘Abu Ghraib’ logica is juist duidelijker.
There is an interesting story on Al Jazeera about St. John’s Cathedral in the city of Den Bosch, the Netherlands, after the church commissioned a strange sculpture – a young winged woman, talking on a mobile phone. High on a 13th century Dutch cathedral, the sculpture in has attracted worldwide attention, prompting the cathedral to set up an official “angel” hotline, with calls from as far as China and Latin America.
It has been a very rewarding two weeks in England. After participating in a seminar on Monday 11 June I stayed for two more weeks. I wanted to do a follow up on my last visit to London, Birmingham and Leicester when I spoke with Muslims from the Netherlands who migrated to these cities.
Vandaag zag ik op Twitter een foto voorbij komen met daarbij de boodschap dat dit Nederland niet meer is. Wat maakt voor mensen Nederland tot Nederland? Welk straatbeeld hoort daarbij? En als gevolg daarvan, wie horen er nog wel bij en wie niet? En waarom?
Dutch politicians and other prominent citizens have participated in a video protesting against the ongoing Israeli practice of administrative detention of Palestinian civilians.