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Posted on June 17th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, My Research, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).
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Posted on June 17th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications, International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.
On ICT – Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism an article of one of my VU co-workers Jeffrey Schwerzel. He cultural anthropologist at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. He is currently working on his PhD thesis.
The assassination of filmmaker Theo van Gogh rocked Dutch society and politics. In the aftermath of the murder, the government has set about a process of fundamentally changing its policies towards Islam, Muslims, and integration. These issues have become issues of national security. Vice Prime Minister Zalm stated that �We will wage war against extremism.�[1] The impact of the new policies will be immense. Other countries in Europe are closely watching the Netherlands, and will likely follow suit with similar policy changes.
The preoccupation with security may skew the resulting policies in ways that may further antagonize groups in Dutch society. For example, the new legislation proposed will only be applied to Muslim extremists and this will confirm to some Muslims that these policies are targeted against them as a group. The processes the government has set in motion are not as predictable as the government may wish; integration can be stimulated but not enforced. The combined effect of the government�s policies may thus serve to speed up the rapid and unpredictable social changes in Dutch society, rather than calm tensions down. Further upheaval awaits us.
Posted on June 17th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications, Multiculti Issues.
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Posted on June 17th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Religious and Political Radicalization.
Verdonk orders three imams to leave
Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk has ordered three imams of the Al Fourqaan mosque in Eindhoven, accused of being a threat to public order and national security, to get out of the Netherlands.
Lawyer Marq Wijngaarden is representing the three imams says he will go to court to
block the minister’s order. He did not want to comment further as he has not yet read the full text of Verdonk’s decision.
The Dutch intelligence service AIVD indicated that the imams “contribute to the radicalisation of Muslims in the Netherlands”, the Justice Ministry said earlier this year.
The ministry claimed the imams tried to recruit, or tolerated the recruiting, of Muslims for Jihad, or holy war. They are also accused of using their sermons to urge Muslims to “isolate” themselves from the rest of Dutch society.
The AIVD said the mosque in Eindhoven disseminated the Salafist philosophy � which is strongly opposed to Western society and the imams there were sponsoring aversion of the West in their sermons.
Well I hope they have more against them then the Salafist philosophy, because the question is which Salafist philosopy; it is not a clear cut and homogenous philosophy.
Posted on June 17th, 2005 by .
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Religious and Political Radicalization.
Verdonk orders three imams to leave
Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk has ordered three imams of the Al Fourqaan mosque in Eindhoven, accused of being a threat to public order and national security, to get out of the Netherlands.
Lawyer Marq Wijngaarden is representing the three imams says he will go to court to
block the minister’s order. He did not want to comment further as he has not yet read the full text of Verdonk’s decision.
The Dutch intelligence service AIVD indicated that the imams “contribute to the radicalisation of Muslims in the Netherlands”, the Justice Ministry said earlier this year.
The ministry claimed the imams tried to recruit, or tolerated the recruiting, of Muslims for Jihad, or holy war. They are also accused of using their sermons to urge Muslims to “isolate” themselves from the rest of Dutch society.
The AIVD said the mosque in Eindhoven disseminated the Salafist philosophy � which is strongly opposed to Western society and the imams there were sponsoring aversion of the West in their sermons.
Well I hope they have more against them then the Salafist philosophy, because the question is which Salafist philosopy; it is not a clear cut and homogenous philosophy.
Posted on June 16th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Gouda Issues, My Research.
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Posted on June 16th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Gouda Issues, Multiculti Issues, My Research.
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Posted on June 15th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).
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Posted on June 15th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.
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Posted on June 15th, 2005 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).
Leen Sterckx en Carolien Bouw van SISWO hebben hun rapport Liefde op maat: partnerkeuze van Turkse en Marokkaanse jongeren gereed.
�Ik heb een keer zomaar gechat en verder niks bijzonders, toen gaf hij zijn emailadres. Ik vraag gewoon waar kom je vandaan, wat doe je en zo. Gewoon van die kleine verhaaltjes, het gaat helemaal nergens over. Maar op een gegeven moment hebben we echt lang gemaild. En toen bleken we echt veel gemeen te hebben. Hij studeerde aan dezelfde universiteit. Hij is ook alevitisch. Onze families kenden elkaar indirect. Zijn ouders kwamen toevallig uit hetzelfde dorp als mijn ouders. Dat paste allemaal in het plaatje.�
Turkse vrouw, 21 jaar, 1 jaar verloofd
Op dinsdagavond 14 juni debatteren Turkse en Marokkaanse jongeren over de vraag, hoe het komt dat zoveel van hen nog steeds hun bruid of bruidegom uit het land van hun ouders halen. Waarom blijft het trouwen met iemand uit het land van herkomst zo populair?
Om op deze vraag een antwoord te geven, hebben de Turkse moskeekoepel Milli G�r�ş-Nederland en haar Marokaanse tegenhangers de moslimorganisatie UMMON en de moskeeorganisatie UMMAO opdracht gegeven voor een onderzoek aan SISWO/Social Policy Research. Socioloog Leen Sterckx en antropoloog Carolien Bouw hebben gesproken met tientallen jongeren en hun ouders en daarvan verslag gedaan in het boek �Liefde op maat. Partnerkeuze van Turkse en Marokkaanse jongeren�. Het boek is uitgegeven bij het Spinhuis.
Driekwart van de Turken en Marokkanen in Nederland is getrouwd met een partner die hij of zij uit Turkije of Marokko liet overkomen. Naarmate migranten zich meer aanpassen aan en wortelen in de samenleving waar zij zich vestigen, zou de partnerkeuze zich als vanzelf meer moeten richten op het nieuwe land. Dat nog steeds zoveel Turkse en Marokkaanse jongeren hun bruid en bruidegom uit het land van hun ouders halen, wekt verbazing en bezorgdheid.
Gezinsvormende migratie is een probleem als dat leidt tot een voortdurende instroom van migranten met dezelfde aanpassingsproblemen als de voormalige gastarbeiders. Want dan staat niet alleen de integratie van de nieuwkomer zelf maar ook die van de kinderen op het spel.
Ook belangenorganisaties van Turken en Marokkanen in Nederland hebben problemen met de populariteit van deze huwelijken. Zij zien de voortdurende instroom van nieuwkomers als rem op de sociale mobiliteit van hun achterban.
Sterckx en Bouw gingen na wat er schuil gaat achter het transnationaal trouwen. Waarom komen jonge Turken en Marokkanen op zoek naar een levenspartner tot nu toe vaker uit in het land van herkomst dan in Nederland? Hoe verloopt het proces van partnerkeuze, welke ontwikkelingen zijn daarin te ontdekken en welke factoren hebben daarop invloed? Zij ontrafelen dat complexe proces, komen tot een typologie van huwelijken en signaleren de trends.
Het onderzoek sluit aardig aan bij het onderzoek van mij en Edien Bartels naar gedwongen huwelijken onder Turken, Marokkanen en Hindostanen dat binnenkort uitkomt via de ACVZ (Adviescommissie Vreemdelingenzaken) van minister Verdonk.
Posted on June 13th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.
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Posted on June 13th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.
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Posted on June 13th, 2005 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).
Moslimomroep neemt belang in soap ONM – telegraaf.nl [Prive]
Moslimomroep neemt belang in soap ONM
HILVERSUM – De Nederlandse Moslim Omroep (NMO) gaat deelnemen in de soap Onderweg naar Morgen. Dat liet de omroep zondag weten in het mediaprogramma Antenne 2 van de Avro. In ruil voor een financieel belang in de serie wil de omroep er voor zorgen dat moslimpersonages die hierin meespelen een betere afspiegeling van de realiteit geven.
Moslimomroep neemt belang in soap ONM
“Wij zijn in Onderweg Naar Morgen gestapt om ervoor te zorgen dat de moslimpersonages die er al in zitten iets meer gaan corresponderen met de realiteit”, aldus het hoofd tv-aankoop van de NMO, R. Alibux.
Met de overeenkomst verwerft de NMO invloed op de verhaallijnen. Alibux: ” Ik denk dat moslimjongeren die naar de soap kijken zich beter in de serie gaan herkennen”.
De soap verkast het komende tv-seizoen (vanaf september) van Yorin naar BNN die de serie op Nederland 2 gaat uitzenden. Hoeveel de NMO bijdraagt in het programma kon Alibux nog niet zeggen. De invloed van de moslimomroep moet vanaf 2006 naar voren komen.
Posted on June 13th, 2005 by .
Categories: Morocco, Multiculti Issues.
Marokkaanse organisaties ageren fel tegen beleid – telegraaf.nl [Binnenland]
RABAT – Marokkaanse en Turkse organisaties hebben het landelijk actiecomit� Genoeg is genoeg opgericht om een gezamenlijk protest te voeren tegen het kabinetsbeleid voor integratie en inburgering. Ze roepen op tot een landelijke demonstratie op 17 september in Amsterdam. Dat hebben A. Menebhi en M. Menmoussa maandag in de Marokkaanse hoofdstad Rabat bekendgemaakt namens het nieuwe comit�.
In een pamflet wijzen zij erop dat sinds september 2001 de allochtonen en in het bijzonder moslims onderwerp zijn van kritiek, vernederende uitspraken, scheldkanonnades en fysiek geweld tegen personen en gebouwen.
Die scheldkanonnades komen volgens hen niet alleen uit de samenleving maar ook politici maken zich er schuldig aan. Ze noemen naast Verdonk ook Hoogervorst, Zalm, Wilders en Hirsi Ali. Hierdoor voeren zij de interetnische spanningen in de samenleving op. Dat moet afgelopen zijn, vinden ze.
Posted on June 12th, 2005 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Internal Debates, Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, My Research, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.
In The Nation an article of Deborah Scroggins (placed on Yahoo! News) on The Dutch-Muslim Culture War
It has become a nice article that centres around Hirsi Ali. I have a small contribution in it (in italics) and for the record, no I do not investigate jihadi-groups. And I also do not work at Leiden University but at ISIM in Leiden.
Meanwhile, Hirsi Ali focused her broadsides more and more plainly on Islam itself. She wrote that the Prophet Mohammed was a “despicable” individual who had married “the 9-year-old daughter of his best friend.” “Mohammed is, by our Western standards, a perverse man,” she wrote. “A tyrant. He is against free speech. If you do not do what he says, then you will have an unhappy ending. It makes me think of all those megalomaniac rulers in the Middle East: bin Laden, Khomeini, Saddam.” By this point, Hirsi Ali had gravitated further to the right; she left the Labor Party for the center-right Liberal VVD Party and won a parliamentary seat in 2003.
Hirsi Ali’s many critics contend that far from being a revolutionary, she brings a message that the West is all too willing to hear. They say that in calling for European governments to protect Muslim women from Muslim men, she and her admirers recycle the same Orientalist tropes that the West has used since colonial times as an excuse to control and subjugate Muslims. “White men saving black women from black men–it’s a very old fantasy that is always popular,” Annelies Moors, a University of Amsterdam anthropologist who writes about Islamic gender relations, said dryly. “But I don’t think male violence against women, a phenomenon known to every society in history, can be explained by a few Koranic verses.”
Moors and others don’t dispute the existence of the social problems Hirsi Ali identifies. Many Dutch Muslim women do live in segregated “parallel cities” where Islamic social codes are enforced. Muslims make up only 5.5 percent of the Dutch population, but they account for more than half the women in battered women’s shelters and more than half of those seeking abortions. Muslim girls have far higher suicide rates than non-Muslim girls. Some Muslim girls, mostly African, are genitally mutilated. But in putting all the blame on Islam, they say, Hirsi Ali ignores the influence of patriarchal custom as well as the work of a generation of Muslim feminists. They point to thinkers like Fatima Mernissi and Amina Wadud, who have shown that Islam’s sacred texts can be interpreted in a more female-friendly way. And they say Hirsi Ali avoids mention of the role the West has played and continues to play in assisting the rise of the Islamist movements. “The rightist forces and the radical Islamists feed on each other, and she contributes to that,” Moors said.
Karima Belhaj is the director of the largest women’s shelter in Amsterdam. She’s also one of the organizers of the “Stop the Witchhunt!” campaign against what she sees as anti-Muslim hysteria. On the day we talked, she was despondent. Arsonists had set fire for the second time to an Islamic school in the town of Uden. A few days later a regional police unit warned that the rise of right-wing Dutch youth gangs potentially presents a more dangerous threat to the country than Islamist terrorism. “The rise of Islamism is not the problem,” Belhaj said. “The problem is that hatred against Arabs and Muslims is shown in this country without any shame.” With her message that Muslim women must give up their faith and their families if they want to be liberated, Hirsi Ali is actually driving women into the arms of the fundamentalists, said Belhaj: “She attacks their values, so they are wearing more and more veils. It frightens me. I’m losing my country. I’m losing my people.”
If Belhaj was sad, another “Stop the Witchhunt!” organizer was angry. Like Belhaj, Miriyam Aouragh is a second-generation immigrant of Moroccan background. A self-described peace and women’s activist, Aouragh was the first in her family to attend university. She’s now studying for a PhD in anthropology. She scoffs at the idea that Hirsi Ali is a champion of oppressed Muslim women. “She’s nothing but an Uncle Tom,” Aouragh said. “She has never fought for the oppressed. In fact, she’s done the opposite. She uses these problems as a cover to attack Islam. She insults me and she makes my life as a feminist ten times harder because she forces me to be associated with anti-Muslim attacks.”
Aouragh accuses Hirsi Ali and her political allies of deliberately fostering the hostility that has led to the attacks on Islamic institutions and to police brutality against young Muslim men. “I’m surprised the Arab-Muslim community isn’t more angry with her,” Aouragh said. “When she talks about Muslims as violent people, and Muslim men as rapists, this is very insulting. She calls the Prophet a pedophile. Theo van Gogh called the Prophet a pimp, a goat-fucker. Well, no, we don’t accept that.”
Although the press has focused on the threats against critics of Islam like Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders, Aouragh says that there have been many more attacks on Dutch Muslims than on non-Muslims. She suspects that what the Dutch really fear is not Islamic fundamentalism but the prospect of having to deal with a new generation of highly educated young Muslims who demand a fair hearing for their values. “We are telling them, ‘We have rights, too. You have to change your idea about freedom or face the consequences.'”
Whatever happens to Hirsi Ali, the debate she helped polarize over women and Islam is sure to spread and intensify all over Europe in the next few years. As Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris have argued in their book Rising Tide, the true clash of opinions between Islam and the West is not about democracy but sex. Successive World Values Surveys, in which social scientists polled public opinion in more than eighty countries between 1981 and 2001, have shown that people in Muslim countries share broadly the same views on political participation as people in the West. What they disagree strongly about is gender equality and sexual liberalization.
In the United States the distinction is not as sharply drawn. Conservative Muslims are not the only religious group here opposed to what they see as sexual license; it’s their opposition to Israel and US foreign policy, not their sexual politics, that sets American Muslims apart from the rest of the right. But in Europe, acceptance of gender equality and homosexuality have become core values across the political spectrum, said Jocelyne Cesari, a Harvard research associate and the author of When Islam and Democracy Meet. “Here it is part of a national debate that doesn’t involve immigrants only,” Cesari said. “In Europe, this is seen as proof that Muslims are still outsiders whose values are in contradiction to ours.”
Islamist thinkers have often argued that women are the key to culture, since they have the responsibility of raising children. An emerging coalition of European feminist and anti-immigration forces seems to be adopting the same view. In France, Belgium, Germany and Scandinavia, as in the Netherlands, the “woman question” is at the center of the debate over how to integrate the Muslim community. “I know most of my Muslim friends will disagree with me, but in my opinion the gender issue is the most important issue,” says Martijn de Koning, an anthropologist at Leiden University who studies jihadi groups. “The head scarf, the Islamic schools, the policy of family reunification–every debate here more or less concerns the position of women.”
Hirsi Ali is only the most prominent of a number of young Muslim women who have lately begun to criticize their own communities for their treatment of women. In Sweden, Fadime Sahindal campaigned against forced marriages before her father killed her in 2002 for having a relationship with a Swedish man. In France, Fadela Amara heads the Ni Putes ni Soumises (“Neither Whores nor Submissives”) movement against Islamist groups she calls “the green fascists.” In Germany, where six honor killings have taken place just this year, Seyran Ates, a Berlin-based lawyer, has charged the government with allowing Islamic fundamentalism to flourish under a policy of false tolerance.
I really do think the gender-issues is the key-issue, at least in Europe (as Cesari also acknowledges in this article) It is for Muslims as well as for non-Muslims. That is not very surprisingly. Gender-issues are often the most important boundary-markers between insiders and outsiders for all groups. Of course it is more than a boundary marker. There are some real issues like domestic violence. It isn’t true however that half of the women in women’s shelters are Muslim. It is probably about one third; still too much of course. I don’t know exactly about the suicide rates, but they are higher among most of the immigrant girls compared to native dutch. Also all these statistics don’t include Muslims but ethnicity and nationality. So it is implied that every Turk or Moroccan woman is also a (practising) Muslim.
Posted on June 11th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.
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Posted on June 11th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Young Muslims.
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Posted on June 11th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Multiculti Issues, Religion Other.
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Posted on June 11th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues, Some personal considerations.
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Posted on June 10th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Some personal considerations.
Spiked has an article on the recent ‘Guantanamo-events’ by Brendan O’Neill: Guantanamo: truth goes down the toilet
It puts things in perspective, which seems necessary:
Camp X-Ray is a disgrace – but so are unsubstantiated reports of Koran-abuse and other horror stories.
Posted on June 10th, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Some personal considerations.
Spiked has an article on the recent ‘Guantanamo-events’ by Brendan O’Neill: Guantanamo: truth goes down the toilet
It puts things in perspective, which seems necessary:
Camp X-Ray is a disgrace – but so are unsubstantiated reports of Koran-abuse and other horror stories.
Posted on June 9th, 2005 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.
Het KRO-programma Profiel begint, voor mij dan, een mooie serie te worden met korte, interessante docu’s. Gisteren een uitzending over Mohammed B. die is terug te vinden nu bij Uitzending gemist
Profiel: Mohammed B. gijzelde zusje
(KRO)
Posted on June 9th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.
Expatica – Mohammed B. kidnapped ‘dishonourable’ sister
AMSTERDAM — The Islamic man arrested for the murder of Theo van Gogh last year briefly held his younger sister captive in 2001 because she allegedly brought dishonour to the family.
Mohammed B.’s sister was having a relationship with a Moroccan man without the family’s knowledge, public broadcaster KRO will report on Wednesday night.
An Amsterdam police spokesman confirmed B. had refused to allow the girl to leave the family’s Amsterdam West home. The spokesperson declined to provide further details.
The kidnapping took place shortly after B. served time in jail for a violent offence.
The girl alerted police to her captivity and two officers visited the family home
to seek a resolution to the dispute.
The situation blew over when the friend of the sister officially introduced himself to the family.
Mohammed B. was arrested shortly after the 2 November murder of van Gogh in Amsterdam. The Dutch-Moroccan 27-year-old has confessed to the killing.
Posted on June 9th, 2005 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.
Expatica – Mohammed B. kidnapped ‘dishonourable’ sister
AMSTERDAM — The Islamic man arrested for the murder of Theo van Gogh last year briefly held his younger sister captive in 2001 because she allegedly brought dishonour to the family.
Mohammed B.’s sister was having a relationship with a Moroccan man without the family’s knowledge, public broadcaster KRO will report on Wednesday night.
An Amsterdam police spokesman confirmed B. had refused to allow the girl to leave the family’s Amsterdam West home. The spokesperson declined to provide further details.
The kidnapping took place shortly after B. served time in jail for a violent offence.
The girl alerted police to her captivity and two officers visited the family home
to seek a resolution to the dispute.
The situation blew over when the friend of the sister officially introduced himself to the family.
Mohammed B. was arrested shortly after the 2 November murder of van Gogh in Amsterdam. The Dutch-Moroccan 27-year-old has confessed to the killing.
Posted on June 9th, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.
Expatica – Dutch police arrest Iraqi men on terrorism charges
AMSTERDAM � Dutch police have arrested two men of Iraqi ancestry on allegations they are members of a terrorist network, one of whom was allegedly involved in aiding the Iraqi resistance against US troops.
A 32-year-old man with a Dutch passport and who has lived in the Netherlands for 10 years was arrested at the start of May in Amersfoort. He is accused of preparing attacks against US military vehicles in the Iraqi city of Falluja.
A spokesman for the national prosecution office (OM) said on Wednesday the other man is a 35-year-old Iraqi immigrant from Amersfoort.
He said a video was found in the Amersfoort home of the Dutch national showing preparations for attacks against US military vehicles in Iraq. The footage dates back to October 2003 and the Dutch suspect can be seen on the video.