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Protected: AD.nl – Verdonk: meeste verblijfsvergunningen

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The Americans are coming…

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Several American bloggers have been invited by the Dutch Tourism Agency to visit Amsterdam in the end of February.

One of the bloggers is AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth.

Three days ago I got offered a trip to Amsterdam from the Dutch Tourism Agency. The Dutch were very excited to organize a first-ever trip of bloggers (they invite journalists all the time, but have never invited bloggers). But as it was their trip, I didn’t want to scoop them on it by telling you guys on Tuesday. Well, today they told the public about it, so today I’m telling you about it.

Basically, the trip is really an in-kind blog ad buy – they get a month-long ad on the blog (the ones in the right column), and they pay for the ad with a trip instead of cash (the trip is actually valued at much less than the one month cost of the ad on this site). But still, I’d be far less likely to spend the money on a trip had they paid in cash, so I kind of like being nudged into going.

You really should read the comments in that entry; it gaves you an interesting picture of how others think of the Dutch and Amsterdam: blowing, bikes, tulips and Muslims

Other bloggers are going to, but are also very critical about the organisation, such as Progressive Gold:

I’m angry that the Dutch Tourist Board, rather than try and promote the Netherlands by supporting the blogs of people who actually live and work here ( blimey, give me free entrance to the galleries& museums and I’ll blog ad infinitum) they’d rather shell out big bucks for US bloggers to come out and give their week-long impressions. And the invited bloggers aren’t even obliged to do that for their 5 star trip.
Many of us, sitting here every day actually in the bloody country, are blogging about Holland Dutch politics, Dutch food, Dutch culture and life in Holland, in English, right under their damned noses.
But does the Dutch bloody Tourist Board actually want to hear what we have to say about this country and its inhabitants? It wouldn’t fit in with the ‘tulips, coffeeshops, and Rembrandt’ agenda so i guess that answers that.
It makes me want to spit, especially when the American blogs get to show this nifty little logo:

Aaargh. Bloggers In Amsterdam? No, except in the purely technical sense and then for only 7 days.

Well I will be in Germany then, but I wish them all the best and I hope the Baltimore Factor isn’t to big.

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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World : Review

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

There is a comedy out now: Looking for comedy in the Muslim World, directed by: Albert Brooks

“Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World” is the story of what happens when the U.S. Government sends comedian Albert Brooks to India and Pakistan to find out what makes the more than 300 million Muslims in the region laugh. Brooks, accompanied by two state department handlers and his trusted assistant, goes on a journey that takes him from a concert stage in New Delhi, to the Taj Mahal, to a secret location in the mountains of Pakistan. The film touches upon some of the issues we are dealing with in a post-9/11 world.

Hetkanwel.net (Dutch) has discovered some Muslim comediants:

Moslims; dat zijn toch die getinte, boze jonge mensen zonder een greintje relativeringsvermogen? Door de Haagse Hofstadgroep, de Franse ghetto’s en de Amsterdamse relmarokkanen zou je het bijna gaan denken. Gelukkig blijkt de wereld groter te zijn dan ons pessimisme doet vermoeden. Britse, Amerikaanse en Nederlandse moslims hebben stand-up comedy ontdekt.
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Protected: NRC Handelsblad – Klik, klik, scooter toto

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Youth culture (as a practice).

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Protected: NRC Handelsblad – Palestijnen toonden woede over corruptie, bezetting en armoede

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Expatica's Dutch news in English: 'Samir wants to die as a martyr to Islam,' court hears

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Expatica’s Dutch news in English: ‘Samir wants to die as a martyr to Islam,’ court hears

AMSTERDAM — Samir A. resumed plotting terrorist attacks in the Netherlands almost immediately after his release from a short jail sentence last year, a prosecutor told a trial in Rotterdam on Friday.

The criminal intelligence department of the police in Utrecht was told by an informant that the 19-year-old Dutch-Moroccan had had resumed his activities shortly after he served a a short sentence.

That jail sentence was imposed on him for assaulting a photographer following his acquittal by another court of plotting terrorism.

The prosecutor told the panel of three judges on the first day of the new trial on Friday that Samir A. “wanted to leave his mark on the world” and
“die as a martyr”. The informer told the police Samir A. had taken over the leadership role the man dubbed the “Syrian”.

This Syrian man left the Netherlands around the time filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered by Islamic extremist Mohammed B. The Syrian, the authorities say, was the spiritual leader of the Hofstadgroep. This is the code name investigators gave to a group of young Muslims, including Mohammed B., who were allegedly part of a Muslim terrorist organization.

Samir A. and six young Muslims linked to him were arrested in police raids on 14 October last year. Two other people were arrested later. Four men remain in custody.

The police say they carried out the raids to prevent attacks on national politicians. They discovered a video testament made by Samir A,., which allegedly indicated he planned to launch a suicide attack.

[Copyright Expatica News ANP 2006]

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Expatica’s Dutch news in English: ‘Samir wants to die as a martyr to Islam,’ court hears

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Expatica’s Dutch news in English: ‘Samir wants to die as a martyr to Islam,’ court hears

AMSTERDAM — Samir A. resumed plotting terrorist attacks in the Netherlands almost immediately after his release from a short jail sentence last year, a prosecutor told a trial in Rotterdam on Friday.

The criminal intelligence department of the police in Utrecht was told by an informant that the 19-year-old Dutch-Moroccan had had resumed his activities shortly after he served a a short sentence.

That jail sentence was imposed on him for assaulting a photographer following his acquittal by another court of plotting terrorism.

The prosecutor told the panel of three judges on the first day of the new trial on Friday that Samir A. “wanted to leave his mark on the world” and
“die as a martyr”. The informer told the police Samir A. had taken over the leadership role the man dubbed the “Syrian”.

This Syrian man left the Netherlands around the time filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered by Islamic extremist Mohammed B. The Syrian, the authorities say, was the spiritual leader of the Hofstadgroep. This is the code name investigators gave to a group of young Muslims, including Mohammed B., who were allegedly part of a Muslim terrorist organization.

Samir A. and six young Muslims linked to him were arrested in police raids on 14 October last year. Two other people were arrested later. Four men remain in custody.

The police say they carried out the raids to prevent attacks on national politicians. They discovered a video testament made by Samir A,., which allegedly indicated he planned to launch a suicide attack.

[Copyright Expatica News ANP 2006]

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Expatica's Dutch news in English: Dutch face legal challenge to terror expulsion

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.

Expatica’s Dutch news in English: Dutch face legal challenge to terror expulsion
27 January 2006

AMSTERDAM — A case pending against the Netherlands in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is being watched closely by the governments of several other European countries.

The case involves an attempt by the Netherlands to deport Algerian man Mohammed Ramzy.

He was arrested in the Netherlands in 2002 and accused of being involved with Muslim extremism. A court in Rotterdam cleared him of terrorism charges, but the Dutch authorities want to send him back to his native country.

Ramzy claims deportation would be contrary to his human rights as there is a substantial risk he will be tortured in Algeria.

The case could have wide
implications as similar deportations are pending in the UK and a number of other countries. Human rights organisations are also monitoring the case, which is scheduled for the spring.

[Copyright Expatica News ANP 2006]

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Expatica’s Dutch news in English: Dutch face legal challenge to terror expulsion

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Expatica’s Dutch news in English: Dutch face legal challenge to terror expulsion
27 January 2006

AMSTERDAM — A case pending against the Netherlands in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is being watched closely by the governments of several other European countries.

The case involves an attempt by the Netherlands to deport Algerian man Mohammed Ramzy.

He was arrested in the Netherlands in 2002 and accused of being involved with Muslim extremism. A court in Rotterdam cleared him of terrorism charges, but the Dutch authorities want to send him back to his native country.

Ramzy claims deportation would be contrary to his human rights as there is a substantial risk he will be tortured in Algeria.

The case could have wide
implications as similar deportations are pending in the UK and a number of other countries. Human rights organisations are also monitoring the case, which is scheduled for the spring.

[Copyright Expatica News ANP 2006]

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NMO – Amiran Yaghout wint WatNou..?!-wedstrijd tegen radicalisering

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by .
Categories: Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

NMO – Nederlandse Moslim Omroep

De 16-jarige Amiran Yaghout uit Maastricht is de grote winnaar geworden van de WATNOU..?!-ideeënwedstrijd tegen radicalisering van moslimjongeren. Uit handen van juryvoorzitter Job Cohen ontving hij de hoofdprijs, een i-pod, vanwege zijn uitgewerkte 12-puntenplan om radicalisering op lange termijn aan te pakken. Volgens Amiran is de politiek te veel scorend op korte termijn bezig en moet er een onafhankelijke denktank komen die zich vooral richt op de lange termijn aanpak.

De jury, naast de heer Cohen bestaande uit Sadik Harchaoui van Forum, prees zijn volwassen visie en voorspelde de 4-gymnasium-leerling een grote toekomst in de politiek.

Tweede werd de 23-jarige Horia Abdellaoui uit Den Haag met haar oproep van binnenuit naar de jongeren om de slachtofferrol van zich af te werpen en zelf kansen te creëren in plaats van af te wachten.

De gedeelde derde plaats werd veroverd door de 24-jarige student communicatiewetenschappen Halil Kilic uit Tilburg en zijn leeftijdsgenoot Amira Belabbes uit Beverwijk.

De uitreiking vond plaats tijdens een live uitzending van het NMO-jongerenprogramma WATNOU..?! na een debat tussen de genomineerden en de jury. De winnaars werden gekozen uit meer dan 50 inzendingen van jongeren die een voorstel hadden ingediend.

Lees hier zijn voorstel: (more…)

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Protected: Reformatorisch Dagblad – „Hoofddoekje reden voor afwijzing baan”

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues.

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Protected: gay2day.be – Veilige Haven voor jonge moslimhomo's

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Protected: Trouw, deVerdieping| dossiers – Hofstadproces / Terroristen of gewoon wat moslims

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