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Regarding the Torture of Others

Posted on May 26th, 2004 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

truthout.org

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Its best use is a doorstop

Posted on May 26th, 2004 by .
Categories: Religion Other.

Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | ‘Its best use is as a doorstop’

‘Its best use is as a doorstop’

Brian Whitaker explains why a book packed with sweeping generalisations about Arabs carries so much weight with both neocons and military in the US. According to some it is “essential reading” but after reading the article, I think well let’s use it as a doorstop or something like that. The book in question is: “The Arab Mind”.
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Protected: Wij brengen de derde golf op gang

Posted on May 26th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

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Protected: Pak radicale imams aan

Posted on May 25th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

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Protected: Individualisme / Boerka en jodenster als private gevangenis

Posted on May 25th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Religion Other.

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Muslim 'rock star' on terrorism

Posted on May 25th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates.

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Muslim ‘rock star’ on terrorism

Muslim ‘rock star’ on terrorism
Sheik Yusuf runs a not-for-profit Islamic education institute
A leading American Islamic cleric is visiting Wales to examine the fight against terrorism.

Sheik Hamza Yusuf addressed 100 invited guests in a speech at Cardiff Castle on Monday called “Extinguishing the fire: Our war on terrorism”.

His 45-minute talk looked at the problems facing Islam, terrorism and community unity.
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Muslim ‘rock star’ on terrorism

Posted on May 25th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Muslim ‘rock star’ on terrorism

Muslim ‘rock star’ on terrorism
Sheik Yusuf runs a not-for-profit Islamic education institute
A leading American Islamic cleric is visiting Wales to examine the fight against terrorism.

Sheik Hamza Yusuf addressed 100 invited guests in a speech at Cardiff Castle on Monday called “Extinguishing the fire: Our war on terrorism”.

His 45-minute talk looked at the problems facing Islam, terrorism and community unity.
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Moderate Islam should not be ignored By ILAN BENJAMIN and TAMMI ROSSMAN-BENJAMIN May 23, 2004

Posted on May 24th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Moderate Islam should not be ignored By ILAN BENJAMIN and TAMMI ROSSMAN-BENJAMIN May 23, 2004

Moderate Islam should not be ignored
By ILAN BENJAMIN and TAMMI ROSSMAN-BENJAMIN
Militant Islam poses a serious threat to the entire world. As early as 1998, the imam and religious scholar Khaleel Mohammed, an assistant professor of religion at San Diego State University, described the way in which xenophobic interpretations of the Koran are being used to legitimize the anti-Semitic and anti-Western animus of Osama bin Laden and others like him. Mohammed is calling for a return to a more tolerant and authentic Islam. This call has, ironically, itself been labeled as a racist attack on Islam, and his important and timely message ignored.
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Pop culture gets religion

Posted on May 22nd, 2004 by .
Categories: Religion Other.

Religion News Blog : Pop culture gets religion

Interesting religious trends.
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Lezing sjeikh Amr Khalid

Posted on May 22nd, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Marokkoplein.nl .::Het plein waar jij moet zijn Versie 5.0::.

Bericht van hanan ( 00-00-0000)

Op Marokkoplein.nl staat een alweer wat oudere lezing van sjeikh Amr Khalid over de Ramadan.
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We believe but not in church

Posted on May 20th, 2004 by .
Categories: Religion Other.

BBC NEWS | UK | We believe but not in church

We believe but not in church

A new Home Office report has found that four out of five people in England and Wales say they feel an affiliation with an organised religion. The largest number – 74% – say they are Christians.

However with church attendance on the decline and only 7% of Christians in the UK attending church, the figure seems remarkably high.

Why do so many people who have no formal contact with a religious organisation still claim to believe in some form of higher power?

Hanne Stinson, director of the British Humanist Association, says she thinks many of them are “cultural Christians”.

They see themselves as being Christian in the same way as they are British, almost in a tribal way.

“People label themselves with what they were brought up with,” said Hanne.

[MdK]A perfect example of ‘believing without belonging’ and perhaps also of the ethnicisation of religion; you call yourself christian because you are grown up with it, without sharing all the ideas.

There is also some information in Islam:
“”The is a growing consciousness that Muslims are part of a worldwide community.

“Of course we are losing quite a few of the younger generation, who go out clubbing and even take drink. But it is nothing like the Christian churches.

“If someone misses prayers, someone will ask where they were – there is a mutual solidarity that tries to keep the faith.” ”

‘Believing without belonging’ is a difficult concept for islam but I think with muslims there is a double development. First of all you are a muslim because your parents are, without sharing the same values and opinions. Second, islam is subject to reflection and individual choice. You have to make a more or less conscious decision on what it means to be a Muslim. [/MdK]
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Tantawi engages with questions of modernity

Posted on May 20th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates, Public Islam.

The Daily Star – Arts & Culture – Tantawi engages with questions of modernity

. On: blue jeans, headscarves, Coca-Cola, falafel, Umm Kulthoum and (my own favorite) Smashing Pumpkins.
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Protected: Geloof moslimjongeren geen kuddegeest maar keuze

Posted on May 19th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Young Muslims.

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Nota Grondrechten in een pluriforme samenleving

Posted on May 19th, 2004 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

Ministerdegraaf.nl – Nota Grondrechten in een pluriforme samenleving

Nota Grondrechten in een pluriforme samenleving

Is er in onze pluriforme samenleving voldoende evenwicht in de onderlinge verhouding van grondrechten, in het bijzonder in het geval van (discriminatoire) uitlatingen die (mede) zijn gebaseerd op religieuze of levensbeschouwelijke opvattingen? Wanneer u op bovenstaande link klikt komt u op de pagina van THom de Graaf alwaar u de nota (pdf-bestand) kunt downloaden.

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Protected: Er komt géén nieuwe godsdienstoorlog

Posted on May 17th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands.

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Islam in France

Posted on May 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Islam in France

May 10, 2004
Islam in France

An article by Jean-Yves Camus about Muslims in France. France is a country with a population of 60 million where Churches and State are separated since 1905, which means, among other things, that asking people about their religious affiliation in a population census is forbidden. However, it is believed that between 4 and 5 million Moslems, whether foreign residents or citizens, live here, compared to roughly 600,000 Jews .[1] After the bombings of September 11th, 2001, as elsewhere, France has had its share of often-harsh controversy about the compatibility of Islam with the values of the Republic and Western-type democracy. Some marginal, but very vocal voices, within the Jewish community and conservative right circles close to the Jewish political right, have openly questioned the possibility for Moslems to fully integrate into French society, and even compared Islamic fundamentalism to national-socialism, which is both irrelevant and dangerous. Camus analyzes the situation where the muslims find themselves in and the processes by which they build up their llife in France.

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Protected: Er komt een nieuwe godsdienstoorlog

Posted on May 15th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands.

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Protected: BRICOLAGE. STRIJDIG MET GOD EN MET JEZELF?

Posted on May 14th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Religion Other.

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Inside the Islamic Reformation

Posted on May 13th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, Research International.

Eickelman

Inside the Islamic Reformation
For the Muslim world’s one billion people, this may be a time of change as profound as the Protestant Reformation was for Christendom. Our author reports on the currents and counter-currents that are pulling the faithful in new directions.
by Dale F. Eickelman
Wilson Quarterly 22, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 80-89. � 1997 Dale F. Eickelman

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Protected: Onze intieme vijanden

Posted on May 12th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Research International.

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Protected: Een goeie moslim kan best een goeie democraat zijn

Posted on May 12th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Research International.

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Mekka or MTV?

Posted on May 12th, 2004 by .
Categories: Young Muslims.

Mekka or MTV: Turkish youth rediscover Islam

Mekka or MTV: Turkish youth rediscover Islam
Posted by MdK on Wed, 05/12/2004 – 09:59
Start:
Tue, 05/18/2004 – 20:30
Location:
Tropentheater Linnaeusstraat 2 Amsterdam
Ayse Saktanber will elaborate on the islamic youth culture as a cultural and political phenomenon in Turkey. Since 1923 Turkey is a secular state in which religion and politics are separated. Lately this secularism is under pressure by the islamic youth movement that wants a more important role for islam in public life and attributes great value to an islamic lifestyle.
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European Values Study

Posted on May 11th, 2004 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

14-04-04 Cross-cultural sourcebook based on the 1999 – 2002 Values Surveys is out

Human Beliefs and Values, a cross-cultural sourcebook based on the 1999 – 2002 values surveys.
Editors: Ronald Inglehart, Miguel Basanez, Jaime Diez-Medrano, Loek Halman and Ruud Luijkx.

The sourcebook is a joint venture between the European and World Values Surveys. “Human Beliefs and Values” is a valuable tool for understanding how social, political, economic, and cultural attitudes differ from one society to another – and how they are changing, with economic and technological development. It provides a wealth of data that will be useful to social scientists, journalists, business executives and policy-makers working in an increasingly globalized context.

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Bernard Lewis Interview

Posted on May 11th, 2004 by .
Categories: Islamnews, Research International.

Bernard Lewis talks about his seventy years spent studying the Middle East—and his thoughts on the region’s future
Atlantic Unbound | Interviews | 2004.04.29
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