An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
Israeli PM Netanyahu visited the Netherlands. In his speech in the Portugese Synagogue of Amsterdam which you can watch here, Netanyahu refers to the critique on Israeli policies with regard to the Palestinians and Iran as a ‘theatre of the absurd’. But for his opponents his equation of jewishness with Israel and his views on Palestinians and Iran would equally amount to be part of a theatre of the absurd.
De afgelopen 23 jaren heeft SSR hulp verleend aan remigranten en slachtoffers van achterlating en huwelijksdwang. Als het steunpunt wegvalt, valt daarmee ook de basis weg voor de eerste primaire hulp en begeleiding. Dit is fataal voor deze kwetsbare groepen. Het huidige kabinet Rutte heeft echter geen geld over voor deze noodzakelijke voorziening.
Syria’s Torture Machine is a documentary made by the British Channel4 is gruesome and heartbreaking but how to interpret the images shown?
Proefschrift van Fiore Geelhoed – Purification and Resistance: Glocal Meanings of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Netherlands – over fundamentalisme onder moslims in Nederland.
Visual anthropologist and photojournalist Ruben Salvadori made a fascinating account of how journalists in East Jerusalem seek, inform and creates drama and sensationalism. Seeing is believing, right?
This is actually a post you might want to skip. On Queen Beatrix’ visit to Abu Dhabi wearing a scarf and an abaya during her visit to the Grand Mosque and Geert Wilders’ comment about it: trolling as a political strategy.
Naar aanleiding van de discussie over het Haagse rolmodellen project waar ook de salafistische As Soennah moskee aan deel neemt. Was het nu shariapolitie?
Publications in 2011 on Salafism and other stuff with download links (including for older articles and chapters).
De, in totaal 184, stemmen zijn binnen en geteld. Wie worden de opvolgers van Ginny Mooy (2009) RTL (2009), Abdelhakim (2010), Trouw (2010) en de faalhazen Stan de Jong (2009) Martien Pennings (2010) en...
The best of 2011 on Closer and elsewhere. Many thanks to my readers, commenters and guest authors. See you all in 2012.
