Four Stone Hearth – The Anthropology Blog Carnival

Posted on October 21st, 2006 by .
Categories: Blogosphere.

Four Stone Hearth – The Anthropology Blog Carnival
What is the Four Stone Hearth?

The Fourth Stone Hearth is a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology. Anthropology is the study of humankind, throughout all times and places. This discourse focuses primarily on four lines of research:

* socio-cultural anthropology
* bio-physical anthropology
* archaeology
* linguistic anthropology

Each one of these subfields represent a stone in our hearth, a blog carnival aims to publish content from all aspects of the blogosphere.

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Hirsi Ali on owls and ostrichs

Posted on October 21st, 2006 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Multiculti Issues.

In the German daily Die Welt an essay (in German) by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In this essay she states that if we want integration to succeed, we must be tough on immigration. A false tolerance (as practiced by the ostrichs) that tolerates the repressive side of Islam should not be allowed. She thinks it ostrich politics towards the so-called ‘prada-islam’ (girls who were very hip clothes combined with fashionable headscarves) is misleading. The problems with Muslims nowadays are not just temporarily and do not go away with time. This ostrichs should listen more to the owls who recognize that not all Muslims will take part in an European future based upon European values (freedom and tolerance). These owls cannot and do not ignore the totalitarian consequences of the Islamist movement. The owls fear that the false tolerance will lead to a clash between the extreme right movement and the islamist movement. She states that allowing more and more immigrants from Islamic countries is detrimental for those people that both the owls and the ostrichs want to protect: women and children.

Since most people will agree that women’s rights should be protected, her plea sounds good and in my opinion she certainly has some relevant points but in the end her plea might be counterproductive for the women she want’s to protect.

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