C L O S E R Blog
Closing the week 29 – Featuring Breivik: One Year After
A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.) This week featuring one year of the mass murder by Anders Breivik in Oslo and Utoya, Norway.
Ramadan in Europe – A Youtube Essay I: First Day
Ramadan in Europe: A Youtube essay. A five part series on the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan, among Muslims in Europe. Part I: the start.
Van praktijk naar publieke actie: niet-vasten tijdens de vasten
Wat niet-handenschudden en niet-vasten met elkaar gemeen hebben.
Islamophobia and the Politics of Hate in Europe – Liz Fekete
Liz Fekete talks about whether Islamophobia serves a function; drawing on her recent research into the Oslo massacre and the European-wide assault on multiculturalism, she contextualises Islamophobia in terms of the policies that give credence to the new politics of hate.
Vlagvertoon – Waarom islam en Europa hetzelfde zijn
De Europese vlag op de Stopera in Amsterdam. Waarom ophef over dit vlagvertoon? Over nationalisme en Europa.
Closing the week 27 – Featuring Public Religion
A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)
Hoe 'Abu Ghraib' wil je het hebben? – Wilders' PVV verkiezingsprogramma
In de media lijkt het alsof Wilders de islam heeft ingeruimd voor Europa als verkiezingsthema. Niets is minder waar, weliswaar is islam minder prominent aanwezig de perverse en gevaarlijke ‘Abu Ghraib’ logica is juist duidelijker.
The Dutch Angel Hotline
There is an interesting story on Al Jazeera about St. John’s Cathedral in the city of Den Bosch, the Netherlands, after the church commissioned a strange sculpture – a young winged woman, talking on a mobile phone. High on a 13th century Dutch cathedral, the sculpture in has attracted worldwide attention, prompting the cathedral to set up an official “angel” hotline, with calls from as far as China and Latin America.
Postcard from England
It has been a very rewarding two weeks in England. After participating in a seminar on Monday 11 June I stayed for two more weeks. I wanted to do a follow up on my last visit to London, Birmingham and Leicester when I spoke with Muslims from the Netherlands who migrated to these cities.