An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
Pop Culture in the Name of Islam – Daily Muslims The following article: Pop Culture in the Name of Islam by YVONNE RIDLEY has gained considerable attention on the World Wide Web. Notwithstanding the...
It is remarkable how many references there are to Hirsi Ali as a beautiful woman. I agree with these men (?), don’t get me wrong but why is that important? It’s very rare to...
C L O S E R I came to Holland in the summer of 1992 because I wanted to be able to determine my own future. I didn’t want to be forced into a...
C L O S E R Last week the television program Zembla aired a documentary about Hirsi Ali. In it the makers claimed that Hirsi Ali lied about the reasons she has to fled...
On Freedom for Egyptians an interesting article about the quite spectacular statements of the Sudanese Muslim Leader Dr. Hassan Al Turabi, still ignored by mainstream press. Thanks to my ISIM colleague Robbert for alerting...
The movie ‘V for Vendetta’ seems to be a hit and has certainly received some attention at Muslim blogs and anti-islam, and ‘critical islam’ blogs. The Anti-Jihad Pundit sees it as ‘another pro-terrorism film‘...
Asharq Alawsat Newspaper The Cartoon Crisis: a Distorted Picture Van Ardenne-van der Hoeven is the Netherlands’s Minster for Development Cooperation. 1. Freedom has many faces: the freedom to say what you think, but also...
BreakingNews.ie: Danish author ‘sad’ at violence over cartoons Kaare Bluitgen thought his children’s book about the Prophet Mohammed would help bring ethnic Danes and immigrant Muslims closer together. How wrong he was. While the...
MoorishGirl: Defend Freedom of Speech…Everywhere Moorish Girl states: Defend Freedom of Speech…Everywhere Her entry about the cartoon affair is a nice round up of several publishings in the Arab world, Morocco for example: I...
One important thing of every affair of course is the battle for definitions. Different views of what is at stake here. Arabist.net for example refers to an article of Olivier Roy in Le Monde:...
