An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
Ahmed Mouaz Al-Khatib is the new leader of the coalition of the Syrian National Coalition of Forces of the Syrian Revolution and Opposition. Last year he visited the Netherlands and the Dutch program Gesprek op 2, had an interview with him (English).
Generaliseren van islam is wel heel gemakkelijk, menen islam-wetenschappers, want dan hoeft er niet gekeken te worden naar de vele manieren waarop moslims met hun islam omgaan. Een reactie van hoogleraren en andere wetenschappers op de stelling van Thierry Baudet.
The utopian beliefs of Islamism have been irrevocably changed by the processes of modernization—especially globalization—which have taken the philosophy into unmistakable new directions. A new book: Whatever Happened to the Islamists?: Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims, and the Lure of Consumerist Islam, edited by Amel Boubekeur and Olivier Roy. Also includes a chapter of mine on modern Dutch Salafism.
Thierry Baudet greep de dag van de verschrikkelijke moord op Theo van Gogh aan om te pleiten voor nóg meer generalisatie over ‘de’ islam. Zihni Özdil reageert en stelt dat Baudet’s betoog toont echter aan dat hij het onderdeel ‘waarnemen’ niet al te serieus neemt en evenmin kennisverdieping door nuancering in de vorm van falsificatie.
Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl who was attacked by a Taliban faction and almost killed. Do you also know the story of ‘Shakira’? The reality of the ongoing War on Terror is that a girl’s life in Pakistan, is by definition under threat. If not by the Taliban, then by the US.
This week is the Nobel Peace Price 2012 will be awarded. France24 spoke with last year’s laureate: Tawakkol Karman from Yemen during the first edition of the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg. The young icon of the Yemeni uprising criticises the world’s weak response to the Syrian crisis and says she dreams of the day Bashar al-Assad will be brought before the ICC. She also explains why Yemen has become a better place since Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to relinquish power.
Three not so random thoughts about the Innocence of Muslims: anti-semitism, aesthetics and damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Een impressie van het protest tegen de innocence of muslims op het Museumplein met een korte beschouwing over kwetsen met een experiment.
The mediated sequence of public performances concerning the film the Innocence of Muslims follows a basic script in which the same the (rhetorical) questions are posed and the same conclusions are drawn. With every new event this script becomes more established and more predictable.
Publishing insulting cartoons and films, the Innocence of Muslims, against a particular group over and over again is a form of subordination by way of humiliation.
