Island's cargo cult celebrates 50 years worshipping the US | International News | News | Telegraph

Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by martijn.
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Island’s cargo cult celebrates 50 years worshipping the US | International News | News | Telegraph

By Nick Squires in Lamakara

As global public opinion sours towards the United States, Americans weary of the relentless negativity can take heart from an exotic corner of the South Pacific.

The US’s standing in the world may have plummeted under President George W Bush, but a bizarre cargo cult in the Vanuatu island nation holds America in god-like esteem.

The Jon Frum movement celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding yesterday with a lavish feast in which village men dressed up as US soldiers and marched in front of a giant Stars and Stripes flag on a bamboo pole. (more…)

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Island’s cargo cult celebrates 50 years worshipping the US | International News | News | Telegraph

Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by .
Categories: Religion Other.

Island’s cargo cult celebrates 50 years worshipping the US | International News | News | Telegraph

By Nick Squires in Lamakara

As global public opinion sours towards the United States, Americans weary of the relentless negativity can take heart from an exotic corner of the South Pacific.

The US’s standing in the world may have plummeted under President George W Bush, but a bizarre cargo cult in the Vanuatu island nation holds America in god-like esteem.

The Jon Frum movement celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding yesterday with a lavish feast in which village men dressed up as US soldiers and marched in front of a giant Stars and Stripes flag on a bamboo pole. (more…)

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Advanced geometry of Islamic art

Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Arts & culture.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Advanced geometry of Islamic art

A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians.

Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples that use the concept of quasicrystalline geometry.

This indicates intuitive understanding of complex mathematical formulae, even if the artisans had not worked out the underlying theory, the study says. (more…)

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Advanced geometry of Islamic art

Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by .
Categories: Arts & culture.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Advanced geometry of Islamic art

A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians.

Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples that use the concept of quasicrystalline geometry.

This indicates intuitive understanding of complex mathematical formulae, even if the artisans had not worked out the underlying theory, the study says. (more…)

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Banning the burqa

Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Multiculti Issues.

The Dutch Islam debate may have seem to be calmed down a little during the last year, every now and then the same old themes come back again such as the Row over Dutch Muslim ministers with dual nationality.

Another issue the already came up last year and has sparked some debate again is the burqa-issue. Twice already, a majority in parlaiment has urged the cabinet arrange a complete ban on wearing burqas in public. According to the newly appointed social-democratic minister of integration, Ella Vogelaar, argued however that women should be allowed to wear burqas in some circumstances, for instance on the streets. She thinks it is desirable if women with burqa’s were working in public functions or jobs in which human contact was important.

Christian democrat CDA MPs Mirjam Sterk and Wim van de Camp have asked the minister to explain what steps she will take to stop the wearing of veils and other concealing clothing in the situations she deems unadvisable.
According to PVV-leader Geert Wilders the proposed ban does not  only apply at work but also on the streets. Wilders hopes to work with coalition party CDA and opposition party Liberal VVD in preparing the bill. Both these parties have supported Wilders’ motions so far towards banning the wearing of burqas in public. The new coalition parties Labour PvdA and ChristenUnie have opposed the motions. The coalition accord however does not state that such a ban will be introduced.

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De nieuwe reporter » Blog Archive » Het onjuiste beeld van Al-Qaeda in de media

Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

De nieuwe reporter » Blog Archive » Het onjuiste beeld van Al-Qaeda in de media
Een aardige impressie van een recent debat op DNR door Floor Milikowski
Sinds het instorten van de Twin Towers op 11 september 2001 is de naam Al-Qaeda niet meer weg te denken uit kranten, tijdschriften, radio- en tv-programma’s. Bij het oprollen van terroristische cellen, bij iedere aanslag en bij elke nieuwe dreiging, leggen de media direct een link met Al-Qaeda en indirect met Osama bin Laden. Het is de vraag of dit terecht is. Bin Laden is zijn macht grotendeels kwijt en van het oorspronkelijke Al-Qaeda is niets of weinig meer over.

In De Balie in Amsterdam bogen verschillende deskundigen zich onlangs over de vraag: ‘Waar is Al-Qaeda?’. Over wie hebben we het, waar komt het vandaan en waar wil het heen?

Duidelijk werd dat Al-Qaeda een minder eenduidig begrip is dan veel mensen (willen) denken. Midden-Oostendeskundige Bertus Hendriks en de arabisten Hans Jansen en Roel Meijer wezen erop dat Al-Qaeda niet zozeer een organisatie of netwerk is, alswel een ideologie, een state of mind, een inspiratiebron en een vlag waaronder wordt geopereerd.

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