Category: ISIM/RU Research
In May 2010 the FIOE (an organization that appears to have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood) is organizing a conference in the Netherlands. The idea behind many of the accusations of FIOE being a Muslim Brotherhood organization is that the Muslim Brotherhood is a hierarchical organization, top down led from one centre. This explains why many of the alledged MB organizations cause so much controversy for being islamist and supporting political violence. The FIOE however, being an MB organization or not, has made some interesting contributions to the debate about and among Muslims about life in Europe.
An anthropologist in the Muhammad Cartoon debate. Last week there was a lot of talk about the publication of one of the Muhammad cartoons in a Dutch newspaper. A Muslim group responded and launched a video in which several people appeared, including your blogger. In this post I reflect about that and the ensuing debate and its relation to the Dutch Islam debate and public anthropology.
Dutch newspaper AD reported about the death threats against Vilks and in that same article also showed the cartoon he draw. This led to complaints in some Muslim circles. So far nothing new. But the ensuing conflict shows how the freedom of speech has become a disciplining frame and the repeated publishing of the cartoons after complaints against it by Muslims, can be seen as an attempt to teach those Muslims who is boss here. A conflict such as this reveals the moral underpinnings of dealing with religious feelings and of secularist and believers going public in a time of islamophobia combined with the rise of religious movements that do not without conditions surrender to the secular truce.
Mohammed Chentouf is nadat hij zijn straf wegen terrorisme gerelateerde activiteiten heeft uitgezeten, uitgezet naar Marokko alwaar hij spoorloos is verdwenen. En hij is niet de enige De zaak van Mohammed Chentouf e.a. doet vrezen dat de steun voor de rechtsstaat helemaal niet zo principieel is. De rechtsstaat is dan niet bedoeld om de vrijheid van de individuele burger ten opzichte van de staat te waarborgen, maar om de burger onder controle te houden. Een omkering van de situatie waar niemand erg blij mee zou moeten zijn.
Er zijn recent diverse rapporten gepubliceerd over radicalisering, salafisme en jihadisme. Een kort overzicht.
I have been thinking about online mobilization by social movements for quite some time now. It is clear by now that social movements (environmental, women, labor, religious, and so on) try to recruit and mobilize their constituency online by building and disseminating collective action frames and while participation in social movements back in the old days seem to have been limited to activists, today a broader group maybe involved in online mobilization. In order to understand the major impact of this, merely looking at content is not enough, the content must be related to larger frames ‘out there’ and user-generated connections; together they can explain user-generated mobilization.
In this third part of the radicalization series, I will take up an issue raised in part II; the need for critically analyzing the role of the state in counter-radicalization. One of the issues here is the distinction being made between secular society and a religious Muslim community, and between radical and liberal Islam. The secular is left unquestioned but in order to understand the particularities of counter-radicalization one must look into the secular-normative underpinnings of state policies and their political aims as well.
You don’t have to be a Muslim radical, or a radical or a Muslim to criticize the state of affairs in the past. But that almost 7 years after still no introspection takes place shows most of all that the tunnelvision still exists: the whole Iraq war is reduced to a matter of international laws and agreements.
De Telegraaf komt met een wantrouwend bericht over de conferentie van de Al Fourqaan moskee. Een bericht dat zelf ook met de nodige wantrouwen bekeken moet worden en dat meer lijkt samen te hangen met het onbegrip en de subjectieve kloof tussen allochtone en autochtone Nederlanders dan met iets anders.
…dat is nog niet zo’n slecht idee, maar goed dat zegt dan ook een kerstmishater zoals ik. Allochtonen Weblog komt met het bericht dat op internet een tekst circuleert dat moslims christelijke feestdagen dienen te mijden. Trouw heeft dan weer een bericht met moslims die wel toenadering zoeken met kerst. Een en ander verwijst naar een breder debat onder moslims en een bredere vraag: hoe moslim te zijn in een niet-moslim samenleving én wie spreekt namens de islam? Het is dan ook geen debat dat alleen tot Nederland beperkt blijft.
