The Charter of Human Rights and Freedom Given by Islam more than 1400 years ago

Posted on September 6th, 2004 by .
Categories: Islamnews.

The Charter of Human Rights and Freedom Given by Islam more than 1400 years ago

The Charter of Human Rights and Freedom Given by Islam more than 1400 years ago; This sermon was delivered on the Ninth day of Dhul-Hijjah, 10 A.H. ( 623AD) at Mount Arafat in Makkah on the day of Hajj. This is also known as the Farewell Pilgrimage. I don’t know if this is authentic, but it is interesting anyway.
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Investigating Teens, Pop Culture, and Spirituality

Posted on September 6th, 2004 by .
Categories: Youth culture (as a practice).

articles : Investigating Teens, Pop Culture, and Spirituality : Youthworker Journal

“n an age of Matrix movies and Harry Potter books, it doesn’t take a sociologist to prove that spiritual themes and images appear frequently in popular movies, TV shows, and music.

So how do teens deal with the spirituality in pop culture? Lynn Schofield Clark, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder decided to find out. Clark, the director of CU’s Teens and the New Media @ Home project, spent six years conducting 250 interviews with teens and their families.

Clark’s results are found in her recent book, From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural (Oxford, $29.95). One of her main conclusions is that different teens have different ways of playing with, incorporating, or dismissing what they see in the media. As for youth workers and parents, about the best thing they can do is talk to their teens and find out what pop culture means to them. ”

Investigating Teens, Pop Culture, and Spirituality
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Liberals can also be fundamentalists

Posted on September 6th, 2004 by .
Categories: Young Muslims.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Liberals can also be fundamentalists

Yasmin Ataullah thinks she understands herself and knows who she is: I do not believe that being English and being Muslim are mutually exclusive; I felt and still feel as English as my non-Muslim friends.”. At the same time however she does not “understand the intolerance that is becoming more pervasive and which, just across the Channel, has led to the banning of the hijab in schools.”

“Using terror to reverse the French hijab ban is unforgivable. But the ban was also an act of fanaticism “

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Fata Morgana: De verbeelding van het Oosten: Nederlandse Orientalisten 1830-1930

Posted on September 6th, 2004 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Fata Morgana

In het Noord Brabantsmuseum een tentoonstelling over orientalisme. Ons beeld van het Nabije Oosten en de daarmee verbonden Arabische Wereld is al sinds de Middeleeuwen vertekend door gebrekkige informatie en eenzijdige waarnemingen. Een stroming die een belangrijke rol speelde in de totstandkoming van deze opvattingen en die er ook een getuigenis van vormde, is het Ori�ntalisme. Deze Europese stroming uit de 19de eeuw heeft zijn sporen nagelaten in kunstwerken, gebruiksvoorwerpen, woninginrichting, literatuur en architectuur. In het voetspoor van met name Franse schrijvers en kunstenaars zochten tussen 1830 en 1930 ook Nederlandse kunstenaars inspiratie in Arabische culturen. Hun werk heeft het vertekende beeld van het Oosten versterkt. In hoeverre het Ori�ntalisme van invloed is geweest op onze beeldvorming, is komend najaar te zien op de tentoonstelling Fata Morgana.

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Gebedsoproep moskee Zeist

Posted on September 6th, 2004 by .
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands.

Utrechts Nieuwsblad – Utrechts Nieuwsblad: regio nieuws, regionale actualiteiten – Gebedsoproep van moskee wekt weinig beroering in Zeister winkelcentrum

Gebedsoproep van moskee wekt weinig beroering in Zeister winkelcentrum

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