Iraqis seek a voice via blogs

Posted on September 10th, 2004 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Iraqis seek a voice via blogs

I guess I am not the only one who is blogging. “Nearly all the information from Iraq is filtered by politicians or the media. But there is at least one way to get the news straight from Iraqis themselves, via online journals or blogs.”

Iraqis seek a voice via blogs

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Between veils and videos, change and Arab women

Posted on September 10th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

The Daily Star – Opinion Articles – Between veils and videos, change and Arab women

As I said before here on this blog, never underestimate the power of women. So here and below an entry on women.

“Looking at the Arab world through a particular cultural lens, two images often come to mind: that of bearded men marching to heaven via the gate of martyrdom; and motionless, veiled women lost in limbo, whose earthly lives are controlled by males and who, upon reaching heaven, see a “men only” sign posted.”

Between veils and videos, change and Arab women

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Voices from Iraq: women speak out

Posted on September 10th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Voices from Iraq: Women speak out

“Iraqi women face tough choices in their country following the US-led invasion and occupation.

While many remain determined to build new lives for themselves in the country, others fear continuing instability and its effects on their families. ”

Voices from Iraq: Women speak out

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Oraties / Koranreciet is een genot

Posted on September 10th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Trouw, religie & filosofie – Oraties / Koranreciet is een genot

Deze week kreeg Nederland er officieel drie islamdeskundige hoogleraren bij: Fred Leemhuis in Groningen, Gerard Wiegers en Abdulkader Tayob in Nijmegen. In hun oraties duiken ze in het verleden van de islam, maar hoe zien zij het heden?

Oraties / Koranreciet is een genot

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of a martyr

Posted on September 10th, 2004 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Sister Soljah
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of a martyr

Recently I have updated my blogroll (see the right part of this blog) with several very nice and interesting blogs from muslims. The one I am referring to here, is only one of them but I could not resist the slogan….which is originally a saying by the prophet Mohammed (I think it is). He probably did not refer to me as I am not a muslim, nevertheless I consider myself to be a scholar on islam. I would hope more people complied with this slogan, than with other slogans.

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Being a Muslim and an Academic

Posted on September 10th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

islamicate: Being a Muslim and an Academic

Although I am not a Muslim and not an islamic scholar, some ‘professing dismay’ is familiar to me a few years now. That’s why this article from LA Times is quite interesting: “Professing Dismay” Since 9/11, a scholar of Islam finds himself in demand — for the wrong reasons”. It is blogged by Islamicate.

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Maatregelen voor achtergelaten vrouwen

Posted on September 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Morocco.

de Volkskrant – Maatregelen tegen ‘dumpen’ vrouwen

“Verdonk maakte kort voor het debat bekend dat vorig jaar in Turkije circa honderd vrouwen zijn achtergelaten door hun man. Eerder had zij de Kamer al geschreven dat in 2003 27 echtgenotes in Marokko zich hebben gemeld met het verhaal dat zij zijn gedumpt door hun mannen.”

Beetje mager verslag van het debat. Ik vond zelf het optreden van Hirsi Ali goed, en dat mag ik ook best eens een keer zeggen.

Maatregelen tegen ‘dumpen’ vrouwen

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Terrorists 'planning to hit Schiphol, Dutch Parliament'

Posted on September 8th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism.

Terrorists ‘planning to hit Schiphol, Dutch Parliament’

“AMSTERDAM � The Justice Ministry suspects terrorists have drawn up plans for an attack on the Dutch Parliament, Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Borssele nuclear reactor, the Defence Ministry and the Leidschendam office of the AIVD secret service, it was revealed on Wednesday.” Samir A. is mentioned here and yes, for people who want to know, it’s the same boy: “The suspect and his companion became stranded in the Russian cold and Russian authorities sent them back to the Netherlands.”

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Terrorists ‘planning to hit Schiphol, Dutch Parliament’

Posted on September 8th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Terrorists ‘planning to hit Schiphol, Dutch Parliament’

“AMSTERDAM � The Justice Ministry suspects terrorists have drawn up plans for an attack on the Dutch Parliament, Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Borssele nuclear reactor, the Defence Ministry and the Leidschendam office of the AIVD secret service, it was revealed on Wednesday.” Samir A. is mentioned here and yes, for people who want to know, it’s the same boy: “The suspect and his companion became stranded in the Russian cold and Russian authorities sent them back to the Netherlands.”

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Levi Strauss – die van de boeken

Posted on September 8th, 2004 by .
Categories: Some personal considerations.

NRC Krantenarchief

De partituur van de menselijke beschaving; erg leuk artikel in de NRC van afgelopen zaterdag over Claude L�vi-Strauss. “L�vi-Strauss is een overlever. Over een kleine drie maanden wordt hij zesennegentig. Geboren in 1908 was hij drie jaar jonger dan Sartre en de jaargenoot van Simone de Beauvoir, met wie hij als aankomend filosofiedocent stage liep. Ook veel van de denkers die hen aflosten – Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault en de oudere Jacques Lacan – zijn inmiddels van het toneel verdwenen. Beide generaties probeerden hem, op diverse momenten, bij zich in te lijven en beide hield hij hardnekkig op afstand. De existentialisten waren hem te metafysisch en tezeer vervuld van het navelstarend menselijk subject. De populaire structuralisten waren hem te literair-impressionistisch en niet wetenschappelijk genoeg.”

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Moskeebeleid in Rotterdam niet strenger

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

NRC Handelsblad – Binnenland: Moskeebeleid in Rotterdam niet strenger

ROTTERDAM, 8 SEPT. Rotterdam krijgt voorlopig geen nieuw, strenger beleid voor de bouw van moskee�n in de stad. Wethouder Marco Pastors (Ruimtelijke Ordening, Leefbaar Rotterdam) trok gistermiddag zijn notitie hierover terug.

Moskeebeleid in Rotterdam niet strenger

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CrookedTimber: Media reporting of terrorism

Posted on September 8th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Crooked Timber: Media reporting of terrorism

You can believe Daniel Pipes if you want to, but better read Crooked Timber first.

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Racist discourse in hostage butchery in Iraq

Posted on September 7th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

YellowTimes.org – “Racist discourse in hostage butchery in Iraq”

“I would’ve suggested a ‘hint of subtle racism’ and ‘unconcealed bias’ in the Chicago Sun-Times’ article, “Arabs express rare outrage at kidnapping of French journalists.” (Sep. 1) But I didn’t, for the article’s assessment was disturbingly true. […] But if it’s true that morality precedes politics the same way conscience precedes being � as some idealists claim � then where was the outrage at the killing of 12 cheap laborers from Nepal, butchered by Iraqi militants just days before the French hostage crisis was set off? […] I said, “I am so sorry for what has happened to your people. I assure you that there are so many people out there who care,”

Once again, I shuddered. I often shudder when I tell a lie. “

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MuslimWakeup.com

Posted on September 7th, 2004 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Muslim-American Internet Site Aims at Wide Audience

“The Internet site MuslimWakeup.com is aimed at Muslims who embrace their heritage but reject a conservative vision of their religion. One of the founders of the web site says it caters to what he calls “progressive Muslims.”

It is irreverent and racy, with articles on sex and love poetry, and more serious matters like violence against women and presidential politics. It deals with humanitarian issues like the killings in the Darfur region of Sudan, and offers debates over U.S. policy on topics like immigration.”

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British Council Officer Sacked Over Anti-Islam Rants

Posted on September 7th, 2004 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

Islam Online- News Section

British Council Officer Sacked Over Anti-Islam Rants

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CULTURE: Osama's greatest enemy: Hassan the heartthrob.

Posted on September 7th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Islamnews.

STLtoday – News – Columnists

“A pan-Arab version of “American Idol” shows how powerful pop-culture can be in undermining terrorism.

Osama bin Laden and fellow-traveling Islamist radicals believe that Western culture defiles their belief system and that unless it is stopped, it will obliterate what they regard as the one true way of life.

They’re right. “

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CULTURE: Osama’s greatest enemy: Hassan the heartthrob.

Posted on September 7th, 2004 by .
Categories: Islamnews.

STLtoday – News – Columnists

“A pan-Arab version of “American Idol” shows how powerful pop-culture can be in undermining terrorism.

Osama bin Laden and fellow-traveling Islamist radicals believe that Western culture defiles their belief system and that unless it is stopped, it will obliterate what they regard as the one true way of life.

They’re right. “

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Never Underestimate the power of Women! Al-Khansaa Jihadist magazine for women (?)

Posted on September 7th, 2004 by .
Categories: Religious and Political Radicalization.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | ‘Jihad’ magazine for women on web

“Radical Islamists have launched a new magazine publication on the internet especially for women.
Articles are written as if by women, but it is not clear if they actually are.”

But of course, never underestimate the power of women:
Women Come Out Against Extremist Internet Magazine

“Another Saudi female journalist Hala Al-Nasser said the promoters of the Internet magazine were giving a twist to the concept of Jihad. �To me, Jihad means constant struggle and perseverance with oneself for the cause of peace.� She said Saudi women would not be attracted by the kind of message being put out on their website.”

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We [Muslims] cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise

Posted on September 7th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Arab journalist attacks radical Islam

“A leading Saudi journalist has caused a stir by launching a scathing attack on Muslim clerics who justify the killing of innocent civilians in the name of jihad, or holy war.”

Arab journalist attacks radical Islam

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Several items concerning terrorism/kidnapping and iraq

Posted on September 7th, 2004 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

A Sunni commission issues a Fatwa to release French journalists

FrontPage magazine.com :: Islamist Terrorism – America’s Internet by Rachel Ehrenfeld

The Decline And Fall Of Islam – Alan Caruba

Khaleej Times Online
Web site shows pictures of Nepalese workers purportedly kidnapped in Iraq

Haaretz – Israel News
After school siege, Arab media denounce Muslim terrorists

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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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