Who's cup of tea?

Posted on November 17th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Youth culture (as a practice).

Ali Nawaz, FunDaMental‘s frontman, is angry and not holding back in All is War: The Benefits of G-Had. The album can be seen as a means of providing a critical alternative about life and politics in the UK, the war in Iraq and, what Nawaz sees as, moderate Muslims. Nawaz compares Osama bin Laden to Che Guevara and raps very explicitly about suicide bombings. It looks to me like an album that is carefully composed and at least meant as a provocation to stir up debates. People who don’t like these kind of politics of confrontation might better listen to Yusuf Islam‘s new album ‘Another Cup‘ whith songs like Heaven True Love and Peace Train.

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Who’s cup of tea?

Posted on November 17th, 2006 by .
Categories: Youth culture (as a practice).

Ali Nawaz, FunDaMental‘s frontman, is angry and not holding back in All is War: The Benefits of G-Had. The album can be seen as a means of providing a critical alternative about life and politics in the UK, the war in Iraq and, what Nawaz sees as, moderate Muslims. Nawaz compares Osama bin Laden to Che Guevara and raps very explicitly about suicide bombings. It looks to me like an album that is carefully composed and at least meant as a provocation to stir up debates. People who don’t like these kind of politics of confrontation might better listen to Yusuf Islam‘s new album ‘Another Cup‘ whith songs like Heaven True Love and Peace Train.

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Brabants Dagblad – ’Jongens ook onder dwang in prostitutie’

Posted on November 17th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Brabants Dagblad
’Jongens ook onder dwang in prostitutie’
door Jessica Maas

Vrijdag 17 november 2006 – Goirle – Terwijl de aandacht uitgaat naar meisjes die worden uitgebuit door ’loverboys’, is een even grote groep jongens actief in de prostitutie. Lou Repetur, kwartiermaker Informatiepunt Jeugdprostitutie, pleitte gisteren in Goirle voor aandacht voor deze groep.
Loverboys krijgen op het moment enorm veel aandacht, maar over jongens die onder dwang zich prostitueren is nog maar weinig bekend. (more…)

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Protected: Eindhovens Dagblad – Publiek TU/e gescheiden voor moslimlezing

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Protected: Het Parool – Huis voor de Dialoog

Posted on November 17th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

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Combating Terrorism Center: The Militant Ideology Atlas

Posted on November 17th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Combating Terrorism Center
The Militant Ideology Atlas

Editor & Project Director, Dr. William McCants
Project Coordinator, Dr. Jarret Brachman

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has announced the release of The Militant Ideology Atlas, an in-depth study of the Jihadi Movement’s top thinkers and their most popular writings. This is the first systematic mapping of the ideology inspiring al-Qaeda.The CTC’s researchers spent one year mining the most popular books and articles in al-Qaeda’s online library, profiling hundreds of figures in the Jihadi Movement, and cataloging over 11,000 citations. The empirically supported findings of the project are surprising:

* The most influential Jihadi intellectuals are clerics from Jordan and Saudi Arabia, two of the US’s closest allies in the Middle East.
* Among them, the Jordanian cleric Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi has had the most impact on other Jihadi thinkers and has been the most consequential in shaping the worldview of the Jihadi Movement.
* In contrast, the study finds that Usama Bin Ladin and Ayman al-Zawahiri have had little influence on other Jihadi theorists and strategists.

The Executive Report summarizes the main conclusions of this comprehensive effort and provides policy-relevant recommendations informed by these findings. The Research Compendium contains summaries of all the texts used in the study as well as biographies of the texts’ authors and the figures they cite most.

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