Regering.nl – 'Door slechte opvoeding meer crimineel gedrag'

Posted on November 21st, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

Regering.nl – ‘Door slechte opvoeding meer crimineel gedrag’

Nederlanders vinden dat ouders meer aandacht moeten besteden aan de opvoeding en vorming van hun kinderen. Een betere opvoeding helpt volgens hen in de strijd tegen criminaliteit. Dat blijkt uit de vijfde Belevingsmonitor.

Het is natuurlijk altijd de vraag waarom men in een persbericht voor een bepaalde insteek kiest. Voor mijn blog richt ik me vooral even op het aspect van immigratie en integratie.

Na de criminaliteitsbestrijding stuit het integratiebeleid voorjaar 2005 op de meeste weerstand van het publiek. Vijf aspecten zijn nader onderzocht: eisen die aan immigranten gesteld worden (de Nederlandse taal beheersen en de Nederlandse samenleving kennen), terugsturen van uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers (vreemdelingen die definitief te horen hebben gekregen dat ze moeten terugkeren naar hun thuisland), het ontstaan van immigrantenwijken, de positie van allochtone moslimvrouwen en regels voor het trouwen met een partner uit het buitenland.
Wat hoort er volgens het publiek op de agenda? Doet de regering het goed op deze punten? Wat zien mensen als hun eigen verantwoordelijkheid? Hoe komt integratie en immigratie in het nieuws? En waarop is de publieke opinie gebaseerd?

Welke positie neemt integratie en immigratie in ten opzichte van andere regeringsissues?
– staat nog steeds heel laag op de persoonlijke (elfde plaats) en maatschappelijke agenda (tiende plaats);
– is ook van relatief weinig politiek belang volgens de bevolking (negende plaats);
– scoort net onder het midden (zevende positie, was zes) als het gaat om beleidstevredenheid.

Wat is er veranderd ten opzichte van herfst 2004?
– meer mensen dan een half jaar geleden vinden dat de regering prioriteit moet geven aan het terug-sturen van uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers;
– er is minder bijval voor het uitgangspunt dat strengere regels voor huwelijken met buitenlandse partners de integratie bevorderen;
– meer mensen dan vorige keer vinden dat de overheid zich niet met de emancipatie van allochtone moslimvrouwen hoeft te bemoeien (hoewel het nog steeds een kleine groep blijft die dit vindt).

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Regering.nl – ‘Door slechte opvoeding meer crimineel gedrag’

Posted on November 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

Regering.nl – ‘Door slechte opvoeding meer crimineel gedrag’

Nederlanders vinden dat ouders meer aandacht moeten besteden aan de opvoeding en vorming van hun kinderen. Een betere opvoeding helpt volgens hen in de strijd tegen criminaliteit. Dat blijkt uit de vijfde Belevingsmonitor.

Het is natuurlijk altijd de vraag waarom men in een persbericht voor een bepaalde insteek kiest. Voor mijn blog richt ik me vooral even op het aspect van immigratie en integratie.

Na de criminaliteitsbestrijding stuit het integratiebeleid voorjaar 2005 op de meeste weerstand van het publiek. Vijf aspecten zijn nader onderzocht: eisen die aan immigranten gesteld worden (de Nederlandse taal beheersen en de Nederlandse samenleving kennen), terugsturen van uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers (vreemdelingen die definitief te horen hebben gekregen dat ze moeten terugkeren naar hun thuisland), het ontstaan van immigrantenwijken, de positie van allochtone moslimvrouwen en regels voor het trouwen met een partner uit het buitenland.
Wat hoort er volgens het publiek op de agenda? Doet de regering het goed op deze punten? Wat zien mensen als hun eigen verantwoordelijkheid? Hoe komt integratie en immigratie in het nieuws? En waarop is de publieke opinie gebaseerd?

Welke positie neemt integratie en immigratie in ten opzichte van andere regeringsissues?
– staat nog steeds heel laag op de persoonlijke (elfde plaats) en maatschappelijke agenda (tiende plaats);
– is ook van relatief weinig politiek belang volgens de bevolking (negende plaats);
– scoort net onder het midden (zevende positie, was zes) als het gaat om beleidstevredenheid.

Wat is er veranderd ten opzichte van herfst 2004?
– meer mensen dan een half jaar geleden vinden dat de regering prioriteit moet geven aan het terug-sturen van uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers;
– er is minder bijval voor het uitgangspunt dat strengere regels voor huwelijken met buitenlandse partners de integratie bevorderen;
– meer mensen dan vorige keer vinden dat de overheid zich niet met de emancipatie van allochtone moslimvrouwen hoeft te bemoeien (hoewel het nog steeds een kleine groep blijft die dit vindt).

(more…)

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Hight School Teacher Muhammad al-Harbi's Case

Posted on November 21st, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.

Just discovered: Hight School Teacher Muhammad al-Harbi’s Case

After the Saudi authorities captured the terrorists who perpetrated the may 11, 2003 tragic terror bombing in a residential area in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Muhammad al-Harbi made a public announcement to his school’s students praising the Saudi police and supporting anti terrorism actions waged by the Saudi government. He explained that that terror acts are against Islam and do not represent the faith nor its followers. This announcement was not received well by some of the other teachers in the school who adopted some extremist views and conservative ideologies that did not agree with Mohammed’s thoughts. They started plotting against Mohammed for his sincere efforts in spreading the message of tolerance and support for anti terror acts.

Thanks to the Religious Policeman who states:

Now I see. Unlike the 2004 explosions in a Riyadh compound, where mostly Arab Muslims died, and everyone got upset, Al Hamra housed mostly Westerners. Now I know from “small A” experience that some teachers encouraged class cheering after that event, just like after 9/11. So it’s no wonder that Al Harbi’s humanity is going to become a bit of a problem for him.

Apparently Al-Harbi’s actions and comments against terrorism upset a number of Islamic studies teachers known for their fundamentalist beliefs. After the Al-Hamra blast in Riyadh, Al-Harbi copied an article, “Cavemen Go to Hell” written by Saudi columnist Hammad Al-Salmi in Al-Jazirah newspaper, attacking terrorists and extremists. Al-Harbi posted the article on the school bulletin board but it was ripped off and torn to pieces.

One of the Islamic studies teachers stopped Al-Harbi in a morning school assembly from speaking against Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin, identified by the Saudi government as a terrorist and who was on the government’s list of wanted terrorists. The teacher told Al-Harbi that Al-Muqrin was a Muslim and that no matter what he had done, no one should speak against him.

Don’t criticize terrorists, if they are Muslims. The Theology of the brain-dead.

But this guy was really making waves. No wonder his colleagues just needed an excuse to “get him”. All it needed was some disgruntled students, some students who had…

….failed the monthly chemistry test. “They asked me to give them the exam again and when I refused, they went to the principal to complain but he upheld my decision,” he explained.

So the Principal backed him, but the I.S. teachers saw their opportunity.

The students’ actions were triggered by some Islamic studies teachers who used the students’ anger at Al-Harbi and convinced them to file the lawsuit.

Lawsuit? What lawsuit?

He was accused of mocking Islam, favoring Jews and Christians, preventing students from performing ablutions.

Note that there is no Police involvement here. Just a group of concerned citizens, upset about supposed attacks on their religion. But what if they can’t make those charges stick?

He was also charged with studying witchcraft.

Nice one! Works every time! It wasn’t just an old-fashioned Salem thing, you only have to read “Harry Potter” to realize the present-day threat from wizards and witches.

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Hight School Teacher Muhammad al-Harbi’s Case

Posted on November 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Just discovered: Hight School Teacher Muhammad al-Harbi’s Case

After the Saudi authorities captured the terrorists who perpetrated the may 11, 2003 tragic terror bombing in a residential area in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Muhammad al-Harbi made a public announcement to his school’s students praising the Saudi police and supporting anti terrorism actions waged by the Saudi government. He explained that that terror acts are against Islam and do not represent the faith nor its followers. This announcement was not received well by some of the other teachers in the school who adopted some extremist views and conservative ideologies that did not agree with Mohammed’s thoughts. They started plotting against Mohammed for his sincere efforts in spreading the message of tolerance and support for anti terror acts.

Thanks to the Religious Policeman who states:

Now I see. Unlike the 2004 explosions in a Riyadh compound, where mostly Arab Muslims died, and everyone got upset, Al Hamra housed mostly Westerners. Now I know from “small A” experience that some teachers encouraged class cheering after that event, just like after 9/11. So it’s no wonder that Al Harbi’s humanity is going to become a bit of a problem for him.

Apparently Al-Harbi’s actions and comments against terrorism upset a number of Islamic studies teachers known for their fundamentalist beliefs. After the Al-Hamra blast in Riyadh, Al-Harbi copied an article, “Cavemen Go to Hell” written by Saudi columnist Hammad Al-Salmi in Al-Jazirah newspaper, attacking terrorists and extremists. Al-Harbi posted the article on the school bulletin board but it was ripped off and torn to pieces.

One of the Islamic studies teachers stopped Al-Harbi in a morning school assembly from speaking against Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin, identified by the Saudi government as a terrorist and who was on the government’s list of wanted terrorists. The teacher told Al-Harbi that Al-Muqrin was a Muslim and that no matter what he had done, no one should speak against him.

Don’t criticize terrorists, if they are Muslims. The Theology of the brain-dead.

But this guy was really making waves. No wonder his colleagues just needed an excuse to “get him”. All it needed was some disgruntled students, some students who had…

….failed the monthly chemistry test. “They asked me to give them the exam again and when I refused, they went to the principal to complain but he upheld my decision,” he explained.

So the Principal backed him, but the I.S. teachers saw their opportunity.

The students’ actions were triggered by some Islamic studies teachers who used the students’ anger at Al-Harbi and convinced them to file the lawsuit.

Lawsuit? What lawsuit?

He was accused of mocking Islam, favoring Jews and Christians, preventing students from performing ablutions.

Note that there is no Police involvement here. Just a group of concerned citizens, upset about supposed attacks on their religion. But what if they can’t make those charges stick?

He was also charged with studying witchcraft.

Nice one! Works every time! It wasn’t just an old-fashioned Salem thing, you only have to read “Harry Potter” to realize the present-day threat from wizards and witches.

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MediaMonitors.net – Zarqawi's message hitting home in Arab World – Media Monitors Network (MMN)

Posted on November 21st, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates, International Terrorism.

Home / Headlines / Zarqawi’s message hitting home in Arab World – Media Monitors Network (MMN)

by Ray Hanania

Everyone in the Arab World is denouncing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his attacks against the people of Jordan these days.

It’s politically correct, even though suicide bombings happen elsewhere and no one says a word, especially when the victims are civilians in Israel.

The truth is Zarqawi has a fundamental core base of support in the Arab World, despite the harsh attacks, the strong words of denunciation, and the tragedy Zarqawi brought on his own people – he’s Jordanian and most of the victims of the triple suicide bombings were Arab and Muslim.

And, if we want to win the “War on Terrorism,” we had better wake-up.

Yet, deep down, most Arabs and Muslims will forgive Zarqawi, mainly because his attacks are striking home.

For example, many Arabs are wondering out loud why Jordan’s King Abdullah, who claims to be the voice of freedom and Democracy in the Middle East, continues to remain silent as Israel reeks havoc on the Palestinian civilian population.

Israel’s continued abuses of Palestinian rights are outrageous. Yes, Israel has a right to fight the terrorists, but they have no right to destroy the lives of innocent family members who are related to suicide bombers.

And it’s not just in Palestine.

What about in Iraq, where more and more we learn about torture and violations of human rights?

The alleged purpose of the war in Iraq was to free the Iraqi people. They’re not free. They’re living in a Hell, imprisoned under a new dictatorship that is different only from Saddam Hussein’s tyranny by the fact that the Americans are better are “spinning” their actions.

How else can you explain the outrageous decision by the United States to avoid applying the fundamental basic rights of the Fourth Geneva Conventions to Arab prisoners?

Americans should remember that how we mistreat our prisoners will be exactly how other will mistreat our soldiers when they become prisoners.

Why isn’t King Abdullah talking about all this?

Why isn’t that other “Democratic” leader, Egypt’s President Husni Mubarak also denouncing American atrocities in Iraq or Israel’s continued violation of Palestinian rights in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Eact Jerusalem?

The Arab and Muslim “street” recognizes that Zarqawi is the only person who is championing the rights of the downtrodden. He is the only one who is speaking out against the injustices. He is the only one doing something to fight back.

They know that war is about violence and death, and they are learning from Israeli and the American policies that innocent people are killed and brushed aside all the time without anyone complaining.

So while they are outraged at the death of innocent Arabs and civilians in Amman, Jordan, they also are asking themselves quietly why they should be outraged when the American and Israeli publics are not outraged at all by their own governments’ abuses?

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MediaMonitors.net – Zarqawi’s message hitting home in Arab World – Media Monitors Network (MMN)

Posted on November 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, International Terrorism.

Home / Headlines / Zarqawi’s message hitting home in Arab World – Media Monitors Network (MMN)

by Ray Hanania

Everyone in the Arab World is denouncing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his attacks against the people of Jordan these days.

It’s politically correct, even though suicide bombings happen elsewhere and no one says a word, especially when the victims are civilians in Israel.

The truth is Zarqawi has a fundamental core base of support in the Arab World, despite the harsh attacks, the strong words of denunciation, and the tragedy Zarqawi brought on his own people – he’s Jordanian and most of the victims of the triple suicide bombings were Arab and Muslim.

And, if we want to win the “War on Terrorism,” we had better wake-up.

Yet, deep down, most Arabs and Muslims will forgive Zarqawi, mainly because his attacks are striking home.

For example, many Arabs are wondering out loud why Jordan’s King Abdullah, who claims to be the voice of freedom and Democracy in the Middle East, continues to remain silent as Israel reeks havoc on the Palestinian civilian population.

Israel’s continued abuses of Palestinian rights are outrageous. Yes, Israel has a right to fight the terrorists, but they have no right to destroy the lives of innocent family members who are related to suicide bombers.

And it’s not just in Palestine.

What about in Iraq, where more and more we learn about torture and violations of human rights?

The alleged purpose of the war in Iraq was to free the Iraqi people. They’re not free. They’re living in a Hell, imprisoned under a new dictatorship that is different only from Saddam Hussein’s tyranny by the fact that the Americans are better are “spinning” their actions.

How else can you explain the outrageous decision by the United States to avoid applying the fundamental basic rights of the Fourth Geneva Conventions to Arab prisoners?

Americans should remember that how we mistreat our prisoners will be exactly how other will mistreat our soldiers when they become prisoners.

Why isn’t King Abdullah talking about all this?

Why isn’t that other “Democratic” leader, Egypt’s President Husni Mubarak also denouncing American atrocities in Iraq or Israel’s continued violation of Palestinian rights in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Eact Jerusalem?

The Arab and Muslim “street” recognizes that Zarqawi is the only person who is championing the rights of the downtrodden. He is the only one who is speaking out against the injustices. He is the only one doing something to fight back.

They know that war is about violence and death, and they are learning from Israeli and the American policies that innocent people are killed and brushed aside all the time without anyone complaining.

So while they are outraged at the death of innocent Arabs and civilians in Amman, Jordan, they also are asking themselves quietly why they should be outraged when the American and Israeli publics are not outraged at all by their own governments’ abuses?

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Taipei Times – Bin Laden in his own words

Posted on November 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Bin Laden in his own words

`Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden’ give us a clearer idea of the man behind the image and al-Qaeda

There he (probably) squats, the most wanted man in the world. His world is a cave in the Hindu Kush or the badlands of Baluchistan. His life is constant flight. Maybe, because we’ve heard nothing from him for nearly a year now, he is wounded, cornered or dead. Maybe his famously loose network is unravel-ling faster than we think. Osama bin Laden, after all, is a turbaned crackpot, a mad mullah, an evil monster. Isn’t he?

Alas for such simplicities. If you read the texts of what he’s said and justified over the last decade, if you put aside soundbites and White House mantras, then any persuasive answer emerges cloaked in complexity.

Here, with a shrewd, scholarly introduction from Bruce Lawrence, is the complete bin Laden reader, from his early days when the House of Saud was enemy number one to his final advice to US President George W. Bush, John Kerry and America’s voters on the right way to win an election. It is full of brusque, slightly surprising judgments: “Saddam Hussein is a thief and an apostate.” He can sometimes turn a neat, almost humorous phrase. Bush has declared, a “Crusade attack” and the odd thing about this is that he has “taken the words right out of our mouth.” Most strikingly, it deals in facts and assertions that can’t easily be brushed aside.

Bin Laden, guerrilla warrior against the Russians in Afghanistan, campaigner against Riyadh sleaze, fulminating opponent of American influence in his region and implacable foe of Ariel Sharon (if he “is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace”), is not some random icon to the backstreets of Baghdad and Damascus.

He is formidable, an image, a force. If you’re looking for a British parallel, though their policies have nothing in common, the politician he most reminds me of is radical former Labour minister Tony Benn, convincing as always about a golden past that has been betrayed, unveiling statistical amazements and historical myths with equal facility, always seeming safe within a cocoon of certitude.

Could bin Laden, like so many terrorists before him, be drawn into some kind of deal?

It’s impossible, not because the man himself couldn’t wheel and deal (if you chart his varying degrees of denial over 9/11 or Dar or Nairobi, you see a trimmer in a jam, a negotiator in search of a bargain), but because he has nothing to offer his foes.

You might just construct a “peace plan” where the Riyadh regime changed, Israel was pinned back to its earliest borders and the US army went home, but nobody who matters would be interested. This is a fight to the end, Osama’s end. The only real question is how his legend will live.

The problem, as Lawrence says, is that bin Laden has no vision of the society he would wish to create, apart from a few thin riffs on Mullah Omar’s Afghanistan.

He merely wants to blow the house down or up. His is a “narrow, limited creed.” The lads who flock to his banner would soon grow restless if they had to live in Osamaland on “scriptural dictates, poetic transports and binary prescriptions.”

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