Special journal issue JOME – ‘What is Islamophobia?’
I’m very happy to announce that my article on the work of the Dutch anti-Islamophobia networks (as part of our project Forces that bind or divide) has been published in the Journal of Muslims...
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Impressie van het debat over buitenlandse invloed op Islam NL
Afgelopen vrijdag was ik bij de bijeenkomst van EMCEMO / HTIB in Amsterdam over de ‘Invloed van islamitische landen op islam in Nederland‘. De vraag daarbij was onder andere of deze invloeden effect hebben...
De post-raciale mythe – Het witwassen van racisme en racistische uitspraken
Derksen verwees naar Sylvana Simons met de woorden zo trots als een aap. Maar hij is geen racist, zegt hij. Giel Beelen deed dat nog eens dunnetjes over. Maar hij is geen racist, vindt...
Discrimination and Hatred? – Day 2 of The Second Geert Wilders Trial
Today was the second day of the trial against populist anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders accused of inciting discrimination and hatred. This is based upon a comment he made at a rally during the local...
Discrimination & Hatred? – What you need to know about the Second Geert Wilders Trial
Wilders and his Freedom Party constitute one of the most important populist anti-Islam voices in the Dutch public debates on Islam, European integration and immigration. Wilders’ views regarding Islam have made him a controversial...
Raciaal Nederlanderschap – Racisme, Zwarte Piet en Islam in een week
Afgelopen week was weer een nieuw hoofdstuk in de discussie over zwarte piet en over racisme in Nederland. Met opmerkingen van Derksen, Beelen over Sylvana Simons en apen, met Zijlstra die vond dat RTL...
No feminism without anti-racism
Earlier this month, the launch of Machteld Zee´s book, Heilige Identiteiten (Holy Identities), caused some debate among Dutch feminists. In it, she writes about academics and commentators whose reluctance to criticize Muslims contributes to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Supporting Zee, Yolande Withuis and others opened an attack on the feminists they called “useful idiots” who are used by patriarchal Islamists to further the “creeping Islamization of our society.” In their efforts to depoliticize feminism, these commentators present the debate as a generational conflict: the 70s-inspired leftist multiculturalists versus the politically neutral, true defenders of women’s rights. What they don’t want us to see is the hardcore political ideology behind their own position.
“Hier verdrinken we Algerijnen” – Het Parijse bloedbad van 17 oktober 1961
Hoeveel mensen hebben het niet gedaan? Een tochtje langs de Seine in Parijs. Alleen, met je geliefde, met je partner en kinderen, met vrienden. Wanneer je dat doet geniet dan vooral van alle pracht...
Rogers Brubaker on Dutch identity liberalism & civilizational frame – A “Christianist” secularism in Europe?
On The Immanent Frame, Rogers Brubaker writes about a new “Christianist” secularism in Europe. According to Brubaker religion is not just the target of what he calls assertive secularism but that it also informs...
Undercover Islamic Marriages in the Netherlands
The Dutch undercover TV report ‘Undercover Nederland’ had a program yesterday on Islamic marriages in the Netherlands. They showed examples of a couple wanting to marry without a prior civic marriage and polygamous marriages....