Award-Winning Research: Tweeting the Riots in England
Award-winning research on the role of twitter during the riots in England in 2011.
Author: martijn
'Make some noise and do some dawa' 4Sharia
A report on the latest controversy about sharia4belgium and sharia4holland concerning the violence in Molenbeek (Brussels – Belgium) and the khilafah conference in Amsterdam.
Coming Back – The Return of the Tatars
In 1944, Stalin deported 218,000 Crimean Tatars to Central Asia – Al Jazeera tells the story of their struggle to return home.
Salafisme in de Islamofobiematrix
Gisteren hield ik een lezing voor het publiekssymposium ‘Godsdienst onder druk’. In deze lezing ging ik in op verschuivingen in paradigma’s die we kunnen aantreffen in politiek, beleid en media en die betrekking hebben op migratie en het management van religie en in het bijzonder van moslims in Nederland. Deze paradigmaverschuivingen kunnen we analyseren met behulp van het begrip islamofobie.
Joan Scott – Sexularism
In this lecture Joan Scott addresses the sharp oppositions often made these days between secularism and gender equality, on the one side, and religion (especially Islam) and the oppression of women, on the other.
Autochtonen en allochtonen bestaan niet: ze worden gemaakt
Allochtonen en autochtonen bestaan niet, ze worden gemaakt. Met alle goede bedoelingen hebben we met het begrippenpaar autochtoon-allochtoon een raciaal vertoog op basis van bloedverwantschap vervangen door een vertoog gebaseerd op cultuur en grond. Het begrippenpaar autochtoon en allochtoon zou daarom moeten verdwijnen.
Groom, Prey, Lover boy – Sexual Violence in the Netherlands
An interesting report on Al Jazeera, featuring Moroccan-Dutch Muslim in has battle against young men (and some women) and their practices of dragging women into prostitution. Wijbenga recognizes there is a risk of racialising sexual crimes but nevertheless feels it to be his duty to raise awareness about the problem and to involve Islamic organizations in his work.
Riots, Ritual and Rage – 'Salafists' and PRO-NRW in Germany
Last week several Muslims were arrested in Germany after riots during a protest against a demonstration of the German radical right wing party PRO-NRW. During the election campaign for the regional elections in Nord-Rhein Westfalen, PRO NRW organized a demonstration nearby a Salafist mosque in Solingen whereby the demonstrators showed the Muhammad Cartoons.During their counter-protests the Salafists, according to the reports, attacked police and injured four of them.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Haat, Ongelijkheid en Vrijheidfetisjisme
Ayaan Hirs Ali is in Nederland met haar retoriek over vrijheid en oorlog tegen islam. Een korte reminder over haar islamofobie, confrontatiepolitiek en vrijheidfetisjisme. Een mild pleidooi voor een milde beperking van de vrijheid van meningsuiting
Pop Goes Islam: Islamic Youth Channel 4Shbab
The controversy surrounding an Islamic styled music channel for Muslim youth.
In 2009, Egyptian entrepreneur Ahmed Abu Haiba launched the world’s first-ever Islamic music channel. Based in Cairo, 4Shbab branded itself as “Islam’s Own MTV”. But after an initial strong start, a backlash set in. Despite winning awards, Abu Haiba increasingly had to defend his channel and its programmes against claims that it was “unIslamic”.