Category: Religious and Political Radicalization

Newsvine – Ave, Muhammad: a plea for reason in the debate about Islam 0

Newsvine – Ave, Muhammad: a plea for reason in the debate about Islam

This essay, written by Timor & Ramy El-Dardiry, was published on the front page of NRC Handelsblad, a Dutch national newspaper, under the title “‘We invented our own Islam’” [“‘We verzonnen onze eigen islam’”]....

Secularism Confronts Islam – Olivier Roy 3

Secularism Confronts Islam – Olivier Roy

Roy’s new book: Secularism Confronts Islam The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and...

NRC / Timor & Ramy El-Dardiry: We verzonnen onze eigen islam / moslims, koester uw verschillen 1

NRC / Timor & Ramy El-Dardiry: We verzonnen onze eigen islam / moslims, koester uw verschillen

Komkommertijd, dat is de term waarmee veel ophef over Muskens en Wilders verklaard wordt. Volgens mij gaat komkommertijd echter niet zozeer om het opwaarderen van klein nieuws, maar om een soort vakantie-lamlendigheid waardoor we...

Consumption and transformation of beliefs, practices, and experiences in the Netherlands 2

Consumption and transformation of beliefs, practices, and experiences in the Netherlands

For ISIM and Radboud University Nijmegen I’m currently involved in a new project on salafism as a transnational movement. A new generation of Muslims in Europe is becoming visible in the European public sphere....