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Posted on June 27th, 2007 by .
Categories: Gouda Issues.
AD.nl -Ć âā¬ā¢Harde aanpak Achterwillens vereistĆ¢ā¬ā¢
Door ANNE KOMPAGNIE
GOUDA – – Een brede, integrale aanpak – inclusief tijdelijke cameratoezicht – van Achterwillens moet de toenemende overlast in de wijk tegengaan.
Daarvoor pleit de Goudse raadsfractie van de PvdA. Uit de notitie Gouda Veilig blijkt dat de veiligheid in Achterwillens er – als enige Goudse wijk – het afgelopen jaar op achteruit is gegaan.
In de twee aandachtswijken Korte Akkeren en Gouda-Oost is dankzij krachtdadig optreden van politie en gemeente overlast in de vorm van intimiderend rondhangen en vandalisme sterk afgenomen. In Gouda-Oost gold zelfs een daling van achttien procent van het aantal meldingen. (more…)
Posted on June 27th, 2007 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues.
Vorige week donderdag schreef Elsevier columnist Ellian een stuk waarin hij pleitte voor het met wortel en tak uitroeien van het salafisme:
Het salafisme hier en in Saoedi-ArabiĆĀ« moet met wortel en tak worden uitgeroeid. Dat is ook wat onze soldaten doen in Afghanistan. De strijd voor vrijheid en veiligheid in Afghanistan is van wezenlijk belang voor onze veiligheid.
Daarom moeten we onze militairen eren die in deze strijd het leven hebben gelaten.
Uit de quote blijkt al wel dat de column over meer gaat dan alleen salafisme. Ellian begint met Iran, gaat over op het salafisme en eindigt met onze soldaten in Afghanistan. Dat is wat ongelukkig aangezien Iran heel weinig te maken heeft met salafisme en Afghanistan niet alleen te maken heeft met salafisme (en zeker niet met het Saoedische salafisme).
Imam Fawaz van de Haagse As Soennah moskee reageert er niettemin toch op:
Ik heb veel deugnieten gezien, maar deze wil ik jullie niet onthouden. Afshin Ellian, een eng vies mannetje dat zegt voorstander te zijn van democratie, maar ondertussen de ene ondemocratische uitspraak na de andere blijft orakelen. In zijn laatste column spoort hij zelfs de Nederlanders aan om moslims met Salafistische opvattingen uit te roeien. Een uitspraak die alle grenzen van de wet overschrijdt en, zoals de geschiedenis ons leert, aanleiding kan zijn voor vervolging, onderdrukking, concentratiekampen en beestachtig gedrag. Maar dankzij de dubbele moraal van Nederland kan dit kwaadaardige gezwel zijn gif ongestoord onze samenleving in pompen, want hij is per slot geen moslim.
P.S. Het is geen schande, maar juist een eer voor iedere moslim om deel uit te maken van het Salafisme zoals jij dat in je artikel hebt beschreven, namelijk de terugkeer naar de Islam zoals deze beleefd werd in de tijd van de Profeet (vrede zij met hem), zijn metgezellen en hun directe opvolgers. En wil je de volgende keer als jij over Soennitische moslims praat en hun overtuiging probeert te bepalen, geen vergelijking maken met Khomeini. Dat getuigt alleen maar van je gebrek aan kennis.
Inmiddels is deze woordenwisseling ook doorgedrongen in de Haagse politieke kringen. De VVD-fractie in de Tweede Kamer vindt dat de maat vol is en eist optreden tegen de imam.
Kamerlid Halbe Zijlstra heeft staatssecretaris Nebahat Albayrak Justitie woensdag gevraagd maatregelen te nemen tegen Fawaz Jneid vanwege zijn Ć¢ā¬Å¾lange historie van opruiende uitsprakenĆ¢ā¬Ā. Het liefst zou Zijlstra zien dat de verblijfsvergunning van de imam wordt ingetrokken.
Dat laatste is wat ingewikkeld aangezien de man een Nederlands paspoort heeft zoals ook al bleek tijdens de vorige controverse over een preek waarin hij Van Gogh en Hirsi Ali op de korrel nam.
Iemand een kankergezwel noemen is natuurlijk niet echt netjes en het met wortel en tak willen uitroeien van het salafisme (onder meer met geweld, immers: zoals onze soldaten doen – of gaat het hier om een promotie van de wederopbouw?) is dat ook niet. In het eerste geval ontdoe je iemand van iedere vorm van humaniteit en in het andere geval ligt een aanmoediging tot geweld wel erg dichtbij. Een storm in een glas water, gaan beide heren te ver in hun vrijheid van meningsuiting of past dit nog binnen de grenzen?
UPDATE:
Ik vroeg me al af waar de PVV bleef, de VVD was hen deze keer duidelijk voor. Inmiddels is echter duidelijk dat ook de PVV vragen gaat stellen.
Posted on June 26th, 2007 by .
Categories: Religion Other.
Foreign Policy: EuropeĆ¢ā¬ā¢s Christian Comeback
EuropeĆ¢ā¬ā¢s Christian Comeback
By Philip Jenkins
Alarmist pundits prophesy that a secular Europe risks being overcome by its fast-growing Muslim population. Yet for all we hear about Islam, Europe remains a stronger Christian fortress than people realize.
The ruins of faith: European Christianity may be down, but itĆ¢ā¬ā¢s certainly not out.
(more…)
Posted on June 26th, 2007 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues.
Scotsman.com News – Latest News – International – Egypt mufti says female circumcision forbidden
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s state-appointed Grand Mufti said on Sunday that female genital cutting was forbidden by Islam after an 11-year-old girl died while undergoing the procedure at a private medical clinic in southern Egypt.
Genital cutting of girls, often referred to as female genital mutilation or circumcision, is banned in Egypt although the practice remains widespread as a rite of passage for girls and is often viewed as a way to protect their chastity.
“The harmful tradition of circumcision that is practised in Egypt in our era is forbidden,” Mufti Ali Gomaa was quoted as saying by the Egyptian state news agency MENA.
The statement was the strongest yet against the practice by the Mufti, who is the government’s official arbiter of Islamic law. The Grand Sheikh of Cairo’s prestigious al-Azhar mosque, Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, had previously described the practice as un-Islamic although some other clerics have supported it.
Both Tantawi and Coptic Pope Shenouda, the leader of Egypt’s minority Christian community, have said that neither the Koran nor the Bible demand or mention female circumcision, which is usually performed on pre-pubescent girls.
The statement came after Budour Ahmed Shaker died on Thursday while undergoing the procedure in the southern province of Minya after she was given a large dose of anaesthetics, security sources said.
Egypt’s doctors’ syndicate has launched an investigation into the death, an Egyptian newspaper said. The girl’s father has filed a lawsuit against the doctor for negligence and the doctor could face up to two years in jail, the security sources said.
The practice involves cutting off part or all of the clitoris and other female genitalia, sometimes by a doctor but also often by a relative or midwives. Side effects can include haemorrhage, shock and sexual dysfunction.
The practice is performed on both Muslim and Christian girls in Egypt and Sudan, but is extremely rare in most of the rest of the Arab world. It is also common in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.
A 2005 UNICEF report on the practice showed that 97 percent of Egyptian women between ages 15 and 49 had been circumcised. Egypt’s campaign to end female cutting has included television programmes aimed at persuading parents to abandon the ancient practice.
(c) Reuters 2007.
Posted on June 26th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues.
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Posted on June 25th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.
Wife ‘offered herself and five-month-old son for martyrdom’ | the Daily Mail
An Islamic religious leader and his wife flew into the UK with missile blueprints and bomb recipes to be used against the West, a court has heard.
Yassin Nassari, 28, was caught carrying instructions to build the same rockets used by the Palastinian terrorist group Hamas as well as a chilling library of extreme Islamic documents, jurors heard. (more…)
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.
Wife ‘offered herself and five-month-old son for martyrdom’ | the Daily Mail
An Islamic religious leader and his wife flew into the UK with missile blueprints and bomb recipes to be used against the West, a court has heard.
Yassin Nassari, 28, was caught carrying instructions to build the same rockets used by the Palastinian terrorist group Hamas as well as a chilling library of extreme Islamic documents, jurors heard. (more…)
Posted on June 24th, 2007 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, Islam in the Netherlands, Multiculti Issues, Some personal considerations.
In het opiniestuk van Fadoua Bouali ‘De koran respecteert afvalligheid‘ stelt de schrijfster dat de koran geen straf legt op het verlaten van de godsdienst. Zij ziet de opvatting dat dat wel zo zijn, als een voorbeeld van hoe mensen de koran verkeerd lezen. De koran moet volgens haar op een poetische manier opgevat worden en geinterpreteerd op basis van een degelijke koran-exegese. God kijkt volgens haar in de harten van de mensen om te bekijken of ze de dingen in hun leven gedaan hebben met de juiste intentie (niyya) en God vraag niet meer van mensen dan ze kunnen.
Haar stuk levert zo her en der nogal wat reacties. (more…)
Posted on June 24th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates, Islam in the Netherlands, Multiculti Issues.
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Posted on June 23rd, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Religious and Political Radicalization, Religious Movements, Young Muslims.
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Posted on June 22nd, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues.
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Posted on June 22nd, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues.
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Posted on June 20th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Blogosphere, International Terrorism.
When Yahoo was notified that they were hosting a GIMF website which openly supported al Qaeda, they had the class to take that website down. But WordPress? Not so much. After several posts about WordPress hosting GIMF webpages, with all the complaints that come with such posts, nada on WordPress’s end. Don’t even get me started on the Google owned blogspot and all the terrorist supporters over there…….
I have been following these WordPress sites for a while now, and it would be interesting to see how providers cope with these issues. Don’t bother by the way, you won’t find the sites in my blogroll.
Posted on June 20th, 2007 by .
Categories: Blogosphere, International Terrorism.
When Yahoo was notified that they were hosting a GIMF website which openly supported al Qaeda, they had the class to take that website down. But WordPress? Not so much. After several posts about WordPress hosting GIMF webpages, with all the complaints that come with such posts, nada on WordPress’s end. Don’t even get me started on the Google owned blogspot and all the terrorist supporters over there…….
I have been following these WordPress sites for a while now, and it would be interesting to see how providers cope with these issues. Don’t bother by the way, you won’t find the sites in my blogroll.
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues.
‘Honour killing’ sister breaks her silence | the Daily Mail
By HELEN WEATHERS –
Britain was appalled by the horrific ‘honour killing’ of a girl murdered by her father for daring to kiss the man she loved.
Here, her sister, who narrowly escaped death herself and now lives in fear of her life, breaks her silence.
Every time Bekhal Mahmod leaves the safety of her home, she wears the hijab with a black veil covering her face – even though she would give anything for the freedom not to have to.
She has no family to turn to, few friends, and has to lie to new acquaintances about who she is and where she is from. She is constantly looking over her shoulder.
“My life will always be at risk,” says 22-year-old Bekhal. “There are people in my community who want to see me dead, and they will not rest until I am. I will never be safe. I wear the veil so no one can recognise me.”
It is a desperately lonely and isolated existence, but at least she is alive – unlike her younger sister Banaz.
Both young women brought “shame” on their strict Muslim Iraqi Kurdish family by disobeying their father Mahmod.
Bekhal, 22, ran away aged 16 rather than agree to an arranged marriage to a cousin in Iraq.
She survived an attempted killing by her brother, but her sister Banaz, 20, paid the ultimate price for leaving her own arranged marriage and then falling in love with an “unsuitable man” of her own choice.
On the orders of her 52-year-old father and uncle, Ari Mahmod, 50, she was strangled with a bootlace by Kurdish assassins, her body stuffed in a suitcase and buried six feet down in the garden of a house belonging to an associate in Birmingham.
Two of the murderers, who fled back to Iraq after this horrific so-called “honour killing”, have since boasted of raping Banaz before she died in January 2006.
“Honour killing?” cries Bekhal. “Where is the honour in a father putting his status in the community before the life of his own flesh and blood?
“They should be disgusted with themselves. Honour in our community is about men having the upper hand, having the ruling power.
“Banaz was the most beautiful, loving, caring, easy-going girl you could ever hope to meet. Her only crime was to want to have some say in her life. Where is the shame in that?
“After I refused an arranged marriage, I knew I had two choices; stay and be killed, or leave and live. I chose to live but I had to leave everything behind.”
Bekhal was one of the key prosecution witnesses at the three-month trial of her father and uncle, which this week resulted in their convictions at the Old Bailey for murder.
They have yet to be sentenced. A third man, Mohamad Hama, 30, of South Norwood, London, had already admitted the killing.
The other key witness was Banaz’s boyfriend Rahmat Sulemani, 29, whose own life was threatened because he was considered an unsuitable match for Banaz, despite also being Iraqi.
Bekhal and Rahmat now face a future of secret addresses and identities under police protection.
“When I stared into the eyes of my father in court, there wasn’t even a twitch of guilt,” says Bekhal. “No emotion at all. I still love him because he is my father, but I can never forgive nor understand what he did.
(more…)
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues.
‘Honour killing’ sister breaks her silence | the Daily Mail
By HELEN WEATHERS –
Britain was appalled by the horrific ‘honour killing’ of a girl murdered by her father for daring to kiss the man she loved.
Here, her sister, who narrowly escaped death herself and now lives in fear of her life, breaks her silence.
Every time Bekhal Mahmod leaves the safety of her home, she wears the hijab with a black veil covering her face – even though she would give anything for the freedom not to have to.
She has no family to turn to, few friends, and has to lie to new acquaintances about who she is and where she is from. She is constantly looking over her shoulder.
“My life will always be at risk,” says 22-year-old Bekhal. “There are people in my community who want to see me dead, and they will not rest until I am. I will never be safe. I wear the veil so no one can recognise me.”
It is a desperately lonely and isolated existence, but at least she is alive – unlike her younger sister Banaz.
Both young women brought “shame” on their strict Muslim Iraqi Kurdish family by disobeying their father Mahmod.
Bekhal, 22, ran away aged 16 rather than agree to an arranged marriage to a cousin in Iraq.
She survived an attempted killing by her brother, but her sister Banaz, 20, paid the ultimate price for leaving her own arranged marriage and then falling in love with an “unsuitable man” of her own choice.
On the orders of her 52-year-old father and uncle, Ari Mahmod, 50, she was strangled with a bootlace by Kurdish assassins, her body stuffed in a suitcase and buried six feet down in the garden of a house belonging to an associate in Birmingham.
Two of the murderers, who fled back to Iraq after this horrific so-called “honour killing”, have since boasted of raping Banaz before she died in January 2006.
“Honour killing?” cries Bekhal. “Where is the honour in a father putting his status in the community before the life of his own flesh and blood?
“They should be disgusted with themselves. Honour in our community is about men having the upper hand, having the ruling power.
“Banaz was the most beautiful, loving, caring, easy-going girl you could ever hope to meet. Her only crime was to want to have some say in her life. Where is the shame in that?
“After I refused an arranged marriage, I knew I had two choices; stay and be killed, or leave and live. I chose to live but I had to leave everything behind.”
Bekhal was one of the key prosecution witnesses at the three-month trial of her father and uncle, which this week resulted in their convictions at the Old Bailey for murder.
They have yet to be sentenced. A third man, Mohamad Hama, 30, of South Norwood, London, had already admitted the killing.
The other key witness was Banaz’s boyfriend Rahmat Sulemani, 29, whose own life was threatened because he was considered an unsuitable match for Banaz, despite also being Iraqi.
Bekhal and Rahmat now face a future of secret addresses and identities under police protection.
“When I stared into the eyes of my father in court, there wasn’t even a twitch of guilt,” says Bekhal. “No emotion at all. I still love him because he is my father, but I can never forgive nor understand what he did.
(more…)
Posted on June 14th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, My Research, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.
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Posted on June 14th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, My Research, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.
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Posted on June 14th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Multiculti Issues.
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Posted on June 13th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Arts & culture, Blogosphere, Internal Debates, Joy Category.
Baba Ali: “I’m not a scholar, I just try to tell people simple things” – altmuslim.com
One of the latest internet celebrities is Baba Ali who with several colleagues founded Ummah Films, a videoblog. Zahed Amanullah did an interview with him for Alt.Muslim.com. Alt.Muslim presents Baba Ali as:
An unlikely internet celebrity, Baba Ali is on a mission to provide thought provoking, lighthearted entertainment to young Muslims around the world. We find out what makes him tick.
By Zahed Amanullah, June 13, 2007
How did I get here?
If you’ve frequented Islamic websites and blogs over the past year, especially those geared towards youth, you may have come across links to videos of a close cropped young American Muslim speaking feverishly and comically into a webcam about the anomalies and quirks of Muslim life in the West. More accurately, if you haven’t seen the young man in question, it would be something of a minor miracle. Since mid-2006, Californian Baba Ali has produced a series of 7-10 minute video clips of himself, edited in rapid fire soundbites, produced in association with a like-minded group of young Muslim filmmakers calling themselves Ummah Films. Skirting fine lines between (near) preachiness, offbeat humour, self-deprecation, and sincere earnestness, Ali’s “The Reminder” series of videos has struck a chord with countless Muslim youth around the world facing the same questions he poses regarding marriage, extremism, and the norms of Islamic behaviour – in addition to his own anecdotes (such as the story of his converting to Islam). In the space of a year, he has arguably become the Muslim world’s first bonafide Internet celebrity (erm, besides Mahir and scary people with knives). Normally, producing video weblogs – or vlogs – would be seen as inconsequential in the age of the millions of contributions to MySpace and YouTube (even more so when some of the more popular ones turn out to be frauds). And for many over 30 or non-native English speakers, Ali’s hyperkinetic delivery and youth-oriented message might struggle to make an impression. But to paraphrase an Elvis record, millions of fans (the ones who have viewed his collective episodes so far over two “seasons”) can’t be wrong. A recent visit by Ali to the UK resulted in overflowing and sold out crowds at University College London, where he was treated like a rock star. His videos have been translated into a host of different languages, including Russian, French, Indonesian, German, and Dutch. Ali finds himself at a loss to explain his sudden popularity, but is keen to make the best of it, especially for the kids – his “weakness.” altmuslim’s Zahed Amanullah recently spoke to Ali, who told us about his stand-up comedy attempt, e-mail conversions, and why politics is part of the problem.
You can read more of the interview with him at Alt.Muslim or look at Ummah Films for his and others’ films. Enjoy already an example here (and yes, for my Dutch audience….it has Dutch subtitles just as we like it….)! (more…)
Posted on June 13th, 2007 by .
Categories: Arts & culture, Blogosphere, Internal Debates, Joy Category.
Baba Ali: “I’m not a scholar, I just try to tell people simple things” – altmuslim.com
One of the latest internet celebrities is Baba Ali who with several colleagues founded Ummah Films, a videoblog. Zahed Amanullah did an interview with him for Alt.Muslim.com. Alt.Muslim presents Baba Ali as:
An unlikely internet celebrity, Baba Ali is on a mission to provide thought provoking, lighthearted entertainment to young Muslims around the world. We find out what makes him tick.
By Zahed Amanullah, June 13, 2007
How did I get here?
If you’ve frequented Islamic websites and blogs over the past year, especially those geared towards youth, you may have come across links to videos of a close cropped young American Muslim speaking feverishly and comically into a webcam about the anomalies and quirks of Muslim life in the West. More accurately, if you haven’t seen the young man in question, it would be something of a minor miracle. Since mid-2006, Californian Baba Ali has produced a series of 7-10 minute video clips of himself, edited in rapid fire soundbites, produced in association with a like-minded group of young Muslim filmmakers calling themselves Ummah Films. Skirting fine lines between (near) preachiness, offbeat humour, self-deprecation, and sincere earnestness, Ali’s “The Reminder” series of videos has struck a chord with countless Muslim youth around the world facing the same questions he poses regarding marriage, extremism, and the norms of Islamic behaviour – in addition to his own anecdotes (such as the story of his converting to Islam). In the space of a year, he has arguably become the Muslim world’s first bonafide Internet celebrity (erm, besides Mahir and scary people with knives). Normally, producing video weblogs – or vlogs – would be seen as inconsequential in the age of the millions of contributions to MySpace and YouTube (even more so when some of the more popular ones turn out to be frauds). And for many over 30 or non-native English speakers, Ali’s hyperkinetic delivery and youth-oriented message might struggle to make an impression. But to paraphrase an Elvis record, millions of fans (the ones who have viewed his collective episodes so far over two “seasons”) can’t be wrong. A recent visit by Ali to the UK resulted in overflowing and sold out crowds at University College London, where he was treated like a rock star. His videos have been translated into a host of different languages, including Russian, French, Indonesian, German, and Dutch. Ali finds himself at a loss to explain his sudden popularity, but is keen to make the best of it, especially for the kids – his “weakness.” altmuslim’s Zahed Amanullah recently spoke to Ali, who told us about his stand-up comedy attempt, e-mail conversions, and why politics is part of the problem.
You can read more of the interview with him at Alt.Muslim or look at Ummah Films for his and others’ films. Enjoy already an example here (and yes, for my Dutch audience….it has Dutch subtitles just as we like it….)! (more…)
Posted on June 13th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Religious Movements, Young Muslims.
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Posted on June 12th, 2007 by .
Categories: Misc. News.
Posted on June 12th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.
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Posted on June 12th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.
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