Moslim van het Jaar 2005 – Ibrahim Afellay

Posted on January 11th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Moslim van het Jaar 2005

Je kunt natuurlijk discussiëren over het nut van zo’n verkiezing. Je kunt ook discussiëren over alle mensen die genomineerd zijn en je kunt zeker discussiëren over alle mensen die niet genomineerd zijn. De uitslag staat in ieder geval vast:

Ibrahim Afellay

is moslim van het jaar. Gefeliciteerd!

Op Wijblijvenhier.nl (de aanstichters van dit alles) een gesprek met hem en een lange discussie erbij.

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Qantara.de – Muslims in Germany – Islam Implicated as Motivating Factor behind Social Conflicts

Posted on January 11th, 2006 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

Qantara.de – Muslims in Germany – Islam Implicated as Motivating Factor behind Social Conflicts

An interesting article by Eberhard Seidel on Qantara.de which has many implications for and references to the Dutch situation as well. Qantara.de also has an interesting question to ask to YOU:

Do Muslims have the obligation to actively distance themselves from violence and terror? What do you think? Write to us… Ok write to them, but I would like to know your answer as well.

The political and social climate for Muslims in Germany has deteriorated significantly within the last year, says Ebehard Seidel, as for instance the newly introduced “convictions tests” in the state of Baden Württemberg show.

For many years, it was possible to reproach the citizens of Germany for many things, but not for being hostile to Islam. The xenophobia of the 1980s and 90s was not directed against Muslims. Instead, it targeted (Catholic) Angolans, Roma and Sinti, the homeless, members of subcultures or (secular) Turks as well as Poles and Arabs. The German brand of racism formed along ethnic and cultural dividing lines. It was only in the case of anti-Semitism that religion played the leading role.

Even after the shocking events of September 11, 2001, the appeal for tolerance was the foremost response on the part of the German majority. Unlike in England or the Netherlands, assaults on Muslim residents were few and far between. And whenever anti-Islamic sentiment did flare up, politics and the media could be relied on as corrective forces. In fact, the Germans were sometimes so starry-eyed in their efforts to show understanding for Islam that for decades they failed to recognize the challenge posed by totalitarian Islamist movements.

Today, many things have changed. The murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on 2 November, 2004 by an Islamist triggered a “moral panic” in this country as well, as the Dutch journalist Geert Mak called the eruptive spread of Islamophobic attitudes. The horror evoked by the incident sparked in Germany a free-from debate that verged on hysteria. At the center of the discussions was not so much an interest in learning more about radical Islamist groups, but rather a focus on Islam in general.
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Times Online – Gay, Muslim and trying to come out of the closet

Posted on January 11th, 2006 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, Multiculti Issues.

Britain, Gay, Muslim and trying to come out of the closet – Times Online

By Ben Hoyle

The conservative mainstream is forcing Islamic homosexuals into sham marriage and a secret sex life

THE marriage proposal described the prospective groom as a successful and devout second-generation British Pakistani who would pride himself on showing duty and kindness to his new family.

But it was the finer details of “Muslim Man’s” offer, recently posted in an internet chatroom, that might concern his future in-laws and lead them to see their own daughter in a new light. “I am looking for a bi- Muslim woman,” he wrote. “Someone who aspires to stability whether that is as husband and wife, or as husband, wife and same-sex partners.”

In the week that Sir Iqbal Sacranie, Britain’s most senior Muslim figure, described homosexuality as a harmful, immoral vehicle for spreading disease, the internet remains the only place where many gay or bisexual Muslims can truly be themselves.

Sir Iqbal is regarded as a moderate and his comments were the latest in a long line of similar statements from mainstream Islamic leaders.

These have in turn provoked outbursts of Islamophobia from sections of the gay community, with some activists at the Gay Pride parade last year berating Muslim marchers as “suicide bombers” and a gay magazine categorising Islam as a “barmy doctrine”.

Trapped in the crossfire, the vast majority of gay, lesbian and bisexual British Muslims live secret double lives or never acknowledge their feelings.

The Times contacted members of this underground community this week. Their testimony reveals a world where thousands of lives have been wrecked by sham marriages, elaborate deceptions, unacknowledged HIV and crippling loneliness.
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