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‘De Egyptenaar’: terreurcel in ons land ontbonden – telegraaf.nl [Binnenland]
MADRID – In Nederland heeft een groep van moslimextremisten paraat gestaan voor het plegen van aanslagen. Die groep is “om verschillende redenen” uiteengevallen. Momenteel bestaat de cel nog maar uit ï¿½ï¿½n persoon, iemand die “nerveus” is en net uit de gevangenis komt. Deze bekentenis van Rabei Osman Ahmed, ook wel De Egyptenaar, valt te lezen in de kranten La Repubblica (italie) en El Pais (Spanje).

Dit staat te lezen in de Telegraaf (en was te zien op het NOS-journaal).
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Stem Slimmer

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Mijn eigen stemwijzer, ahum gebaseerd op een
overzicht van het NRC, aangevuld met enkele
gegevens van de Stemwijzer. Niet dat u
dan alles weet he, bijvoorbeeld u kunt wel fan zijn de VVD maar tegelijkertijd
een hekel hebben aan D66. Aangezien die twee partijen in dezelfde eurofractie
zitten, betekent een stem voor de VVD ook een indirecte stem voor D66.

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Protected: Ik heb Hirsi Ali niet bedreigd

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.

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On "overt displays" of whatever belief

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.

Skje Oy : Spoon Island : Conflict

So. The French government wants to ban “overt displays of religious belief” in public schools.

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On “overt displays” of whatever belief

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Skje Oy : Spoon Island : Conflict

So. The French government wants to ban “overt displays of religious belief” in public schools.

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Postmodernity goes to war

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

spiked-essays | Essay | Postmodernity goes to war

Essay1 June 2004

Postmodernity goes to war
by Philip Hammond

In 1991 the philosopher Jean Baudrillard offered a postmodernist assessment of the Gulf War – predicting that it would not take place, asking if it was ‘really’ taking place, and claiming that it ‘did not take place’ .

“If conservative commentators exaggerate the extent of postmodern intellectuals’ anti-Americanism, postmodernists are apt to overestimate the elite’s ‘universal absolutes’. The war on terrorism claims to be a war for Western values. On 5 March 2004, Blair argued that: ‘The best defence of our security lies in the spread of our values’, and that ‘we cannot advance these values except within a framework that recognises their universality’ (29). Yet it would be more accurate to say that it is a war fought over the crisis of Western values. In Foreign Affairs, the house journal of the US foreign policy establishment, even ardent Atlanticist Dominique Moï¿½si felt called upon to ask ‘Does “the West” still exist?’. As Moï¿½si observed, ‘Islamic fundamentalism, international terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have not had the same unifying effect as yesterday’s Soviet threat’.”
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Headscarf dilemma is tangled in politics

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates, Public Islam.

Headscarf dilemma is tangled in politics – ExpressNews – University of Alberta

Some Muslim women state that wearing the hizjab is obligatory, others say it isn’t. At the same time non-muslims state a hizjab is a sign of oppression, others say it isn’t. Well here we have the hizjab-debate in a nutshell. An article by dr. Saleem Qureshi from the university of alberta (canada) on this debate with examples from Turkey and France.
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The challenge of islam

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Islam, in light of 9/11, is
theology journalï¿½s focus
By Jeff Robinson
Jun 8, 2004

In the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology an attempt to shed light on de ‘fundamental’ tenets of Islam, by examaning the so called key aspects of the faith from ‘jihad’ to “Isa’ (Jesus). My advice: do not read it as an account of the motivations of muslims but as a baptist view on islam that is scaringly close to that of the neo-fundamentalists in islam.
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Soft power and the psychology of suicide bombing

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

The Jamestown Foundation

TERRORISM MONITOR
Volume 2 Issue 11 (Jun 03, 2004)

SOFT POWER AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUICIDE BOMBING

In the Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor an article on the relation between real or imagined grievances and suicide attacks.

“Current political and economic conditions that policymakers are monitoring remain important although not necessarily determinant. Rather, what likely matters more is the promise of redeeming real or imagined historical grievances through a religious (or transcendent ideological) mission that empowers the militarily weak with unexpected force against enemies materially much stronger. This was as true for Jewish Zealots who sacrificed themselves to kill Romans two millennia ago as it is for modern Jihadists.”
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“Shows of military strength are not the way to end the growing menace of suicide terrorism: witness the failure of Israelï¿½s and Russiaï¿½s coercive efforts to end strings of Palestinian and Chechen suicide bombings. Rather, nations most threatened by suicide terrorism should promote democracy, but be ready to accept ï¿½democracyï¿½s paradoxï¿½: representatives who America and its democratic allies donï¿½t like, who have different values or ways of doing things, must be accepted as long as this does not generate violence. Democratic self-determination in Palestine, Kashmir and Iraq ï¿½ or for that matter, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia ï¿½ will more likely reduce terrorism than military and counterinsurgency aid. At the same time, America and its allies need to establish an intense dialogue with Muslim religious and community leaders to reconcile Islamic custom and religious law (shariï¿½ah) with internationally recognized standards for crime and punishment and human rights.”
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Protected: Bomaanslagen van Palestijnen geen terrorisme

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

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Protected: Cultuurkritiek / Wijsgerig onbehagen voor psychiaters

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Categories: Misc. News.

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For Muslims, Courtship Enabled by the internet

Posted on June 8th, 2004 by .
Categories: Young Muslims.

For Muslims, Courtship Enabled by the Internet (washingtonpost.com)

On Faith
For Muslims, Courtship Enabled by the Internet

By David Cho
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 6, 2004; Page C01

Dating and flirting on the internet by muslims. “A lot of islam is patience”
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U.S. court rulings concerning prayer and cross in public sphere

Posted on June 8th, 2004 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

onReligion.com – U.S. court rulings concerning prayer and cross in public sphere

U.S. court rulings concerning prayer and cross in public sphere
Tuesday, June 08 2004 @ 08:21 AM EDT
permanent link to this blurb

A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that bible classes in public schools are unconstitutional. The ruling concerned public school bible classes in Rhea County, Tennessee, home of the 1920s Scopes Monkey Trial. A second story reports that another federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that a cross in the Mojave National Preserve is unconstitutional.