The Innocence Of Muslims – Three Not So Random Thoughts
Three not so random thoughts about the Innocence of Muslims: anti-semitism, aesthetics and damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Category: Arts & culture
Visual Essay – Burqa: Freedom in Restriction, Restriction in Freedom
The Burqa Debate has been a hot topic in the Netherlands, and because of her own background (having lived both in Qatar and the Netherlands) it, according her,’naturally intrigued’ Dutch student Eline Floor to do an in depth research about it. Watch her visual essay here.
Imagine IC – Mijn God: Over Jongeren en Geloof
Imagine IC organiseert ‘Mijn God’ over jongeren en geloof. Koštana Banovi? heeft met jongeren een videoinstallatie gemaakt die gepresenteerd wordt op 14 september. Er komen ook nog twee jongerendebatten waarvoor nog jonge mensen gezocht worden die willen meewerken in de redactie van deze debatten.
Fashioning Faith
At the intersections of faith and fashion, designers explore what it means to be young, female and Muslim in today’s America. A documentary by Yasmin Moll
Closer Cinema: The Power of Nightmares
The Power of Nightmares – The Rise of the Politics of Fear is a BBC documentary by Adam Curtis that consists of three parts. The film as a whole compares the rise of the radical Islamist movement and the American Neo-Conservative moment. The film was controversial in some circles mainly because of its argument that the threat of radical Islamism, and more specific that of Al Qaeda, is a myth produced and continously reproduced by many politicians all over the world, but in particular the American neo-conservatives who alledgly used the threat of Al Qaeda in order to mobilise people for their cause.
Dreams, Fear, Passion, Love and a 'Fokking' Golden Calf
Nasrdin Dchar, a Moroccan-Dutch actor, won the Golden Calf (Dutch equivalent for the Oscar) for best actor in the roadmovie Rabat. He delivered a strong and emotional speech that evoked many reactions.
The Asylum Game – Failed Asylum Seekers Compete on TV
In the Dutch TV show ‘Weg van Holland’ failed asylum seekers can win 4.000 euros which helps them to make a new start in their country of origin to which they will send back. The winner is the person who demonstrates he or she knows their adopted country the best. TV viewers can also join the competition and compare their knowledge with that of the candidates. The winner among the TV viewers gets a (return!) ticket to the Caribbean island of Curacao. What is the idea behind this?
Religion & Film: Of Gods and Men
In 1996, during the Algerian Civil War, seven monks of the Tibhrine monastery in Algeria (belonging to the Roman Catholic Trappist Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) were kidnapped. The film of Gods and Men is based on that event and follows the lives of French Catholic monks in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria in the 1990s. As the country is caught into a terrible civil war between an oppressive secularist state and radical Islamists, the Trappist monks face the question of how to ‘love thy neighbour’ even when he points a gun at you.
From Hallelujah to Ya Ilahi
Leonard Cohen’s beautiful Hallelujah song has been reworked numerous times. We also have an Arab version now: Ya Ilahi.