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Protected: Trouw – 'Crimineel gedrag Marokkanen is geen cultuur'

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Allochtonen: Stop ongeremde stroom integratiesubsidie – telegraaf.nl [Binnenland]

Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by .
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Allochtonen: Stop ongeremde stroom integratiesubsidie – telegraaf.nl [Binnenland]
Stop ongeremde stroom integratiesubsidie
door Jouke Schaafsma
AMSTERDAM – Turkse en Marokkaanse Nederlanders roepen de overheid op te stoppen met de ongebreidelde stroom aan subsidies voor integratieprojecten.

Ook moet er een einde komen aan de subsidies voor bijvoorbeeld buurthuizen voor etnische minderheden. Daarvoor in de plaats moet er juist integratiegeld in algemene buurtinstellingen worden gestoken met de verplichting ook allochtonen te betrekken bij de activiteiten. Als aan de verplichting dan niet wordt voldaan moeten sancties volgen. Dat stellen Inspraak Orgaan Turken (IOT) en Contactorgaan Moslims en Overheid (CMO), beide door de overheid als officiële gesprekspartner aangewezen. Volgens deze allochtonenorganisaties wordt de beschuldigende vinger steeds vaker uitsluitend bij minderhedengroepen gelegd wanneer het misgaat in wijken en met integratie in het algemeen.

“Jarenlang is er echter een dubbel overheidsbeleid gevoerd rond integratie. Enerzijds moest iedereen integreren, maar anderzijds wordt allochtone vrouwen toegestaan kinderen als tolk bij de arts in te zetten, is gezinshereniging zonder verplichtingen jarenlang toegestaan en heeft iedereen zijn eigen buurthuis”, zegt voorzitter Emin Ates van IOT.

Miljoenen

Hij signaleert dat er voor ettelijke miljoenen in integratie- en antiradicaliseringsprojecten gestoken wordt via allerlei professionele maatschappelijke instellingen. Maar dat die vervolgens nauwelijks resultaat boeken. Ates: “Stop met die subsidies. De nadruk moet veel meer liggen op de eigen verantwoordelijkheid van de minderheden. Rol je mouwen op! Maak duidelijk dat ze dezelfde rechten en plichten hebben.”

Ahmed Driss el Boujoufi, voorzitter van CMO, heeft eveneens grote moeite met het huidige subsidiebeleid. “Ook de bij ons aangesloten organisaties melden ons steeds vaker dit soort geluiden. Als je subsidies geeft moet je veel duidelijker doelen stellen rond integratie en dat ook daadwerkelijk controleren”, zegt hij.

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IslamWijzer Forums – News – Open brief aan critici van IslamWijzer

Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by .
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IslamWijzer Forums – News – Open brief aan critici van IslamWijzer
Open brief aan critici van IslamWijzer

De IslamWijzer was nog niet in de digitale lucht of er dienden zich critici aan die de overheidssubsidie aan dit project ter discussie stelden. Zij brachten twee bezwaren naar voren. Ten eerste zou de IslamWijzer een platform zijn om één bepaalde islamitische stroming (de zgn. ‘liberale islam’) te bevorderen. Ten tweede zou door de overheidssteun aan dit initiatief de scheiding tussen staat en kerk/moskee worden aangetast. De projectgroep ‘IslamWijzer’ dient hen van repliek.

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OpenNet Initiative Blog – Political satire, Internet surveillance, and user empowerment: A story of a remix clip from the Middle East

Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by .
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Users in the Middle East and North Africa not only mock the political authorities by producing and distributing such content, but they mock the surveillance efforts by using various techniques to defeat and protest censorship and surveillance. In some cases, the Internet has been used to multiply the effect of questionable content. In June 2006, when the Lebanese satellite channel LBC broadcast a satirical sketch of Hassan Nasrallah, the head Hizbullah, supporters of the militant group took to the streets protesting what they considered as outrageous and insensitive. The producer of the show had to apologize. However, Internet users posted the clip on a large number of video sharing sites including YouTube with English subtitles, to protest what they considered as an unacceptable form of censorship.

The story of the remix provides us with a brief look into the impact of the different modes of online surveillance and censorship on the users’ online behavior and how that behavior is influenced by the users’ awareness of obtrusive surveillance.

Read the article and after that, watch both videos.

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Jihadism | The brains behind the bombs | Economist.com

Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Religious Movements.

Jihadism | The brains behind the bombs | Economist.com

The most important contribution of Mr Lia’s book is the insight he offers into the personal and ideological rivalries in the jihadi world (though these may make hard going for a non-expert). It is plain that Mr al-Suri was not enamoured by his fellow militants. He disliked the “erratic actions” being taken by al-Qaeda, which he feared would undermine the Taliban experiment (he was right). He once accused Mr bin Laden of acting like a “pharaoh” and he had little regard for Saudi jihadists in general. Many, in his view, treated the jihadi training camps as an adventure playground or as a means of cleansing themselves after having “spent time with a whore in Bangkok”.

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Jihadism | The brains behind the bombs | Economist.com

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Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Religious Movements.

Jihadism | The brains behind the bombs | Economist.com

The most important contribution of Mr Lia’s book is the insight he offers into the personal and ideological rivalries in the jihadi world (though these may make hard going for a non-expert). It is plain that Mr al-Suri was not enamoured by his fellow militants. He disliked the “erratic actions” being taken by al-Qaeda, which he feared would undermine the Taliban experiment (he was right). He once accused Mr bin Laden of acting like a “pharaoh” and he had little regard for Saudi jihadists in general. Many, in his view, treated the jihadi training camps as an adventure playground or as a means of cleansing themselves after having “spent time with a whore in Bangkok”.

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Court delivers guilty verdict over Madrid train bombings | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Posted on November 1st, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism.

Court delivers guilty verdict over Madrid train bombings | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Paul Hamilos in Madrid, Mark Tran and agencies
Wednesday October 31, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Spanish judge today found 21 people guilty – but acquitted seven – of the Madrid train bombings that killed more than 190 people in one of Europe’s worst terrorist atrocities in recent years.

To the consternation of some survivors and relatives of the victims, one of the accused masterminds, Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, known as “Mohamed the Egyptian”, was acquitted along with six others. He is in prison in Milan, Italy, after being convicted of belonging to an international terrorist group.

A representative from a victims’ association said he was unhappy that some of the accused were still walking free.

“It seems to us that only a few of them got a lot of years in prison. There aren’t many heavy sentences considering how many people were affected,” Eutiquio Gutierrez, whose 39-year-old daughter died in the bombings, told Reuters.

Three of the eight main suspects – Emilio Trashorras, a Spaniard, and Jamal Zougam and Othman el-Gnaoui, both Moroccans – received sentences of nearly 40,000 years each. Under Spanish law, however, they can only serve a maximum of 40 years.

Four other lead defendants – Youssef Belhadj, Hassan el Haski, Abdulmajid Bouchar and Rafa Zouhier – were acquitted of murder but convicted of lesser charges including belonging to a terrorist group or trafficking in weapons. Fourteen other people were found guilty of lesser charges such as belonging to a terrorist group. (more…)

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Court delivers guilty verdict over Madrid train bombings | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Posted on November 1st, 2007 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Court delivers guilty verdict over Madrid train bombings | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Paul Hamilos in Madrid, Mark Tran and agencies
Wednesday October 31, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Spanish judge today found 21 people guilty – but acquitted seven – of the Madrid train bombings that killed more than 190 people in one of Europe’s worst terrorist atrocities in recent years.

To the consternation of some survivors and relatives of the victims, one of the accused masterminds, Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, known as “Mohamed the Egyptian”, was acquitted along with six others. He is in prison in Milan, Italy, after being convicted of belonging to an international terrorist group.

A representative from a victims’ association said he was unhappy that some of the accused were still walking free.

“It seems to us that only a few of them got a lot of years in prison. There aren’t many heavy sentences considering how many people were affected,” Eutiquio Gutierrez, whose 39-year-old daughter died in the bombings, told Reuters.

Three of the eight main suspects – Emilio Trashorras, a Spaniard, and Jamal Zougam and Othman el-Gnaoui, both Moroccans – received sentences of nearly 40,000 years each. Under Spanish law, however, they can only serve a maximum of 40 years.

Four other lead defendants – Youssef Belhadj, Hassan el Haski, Abdulmajid Bouchar and Rafa Zouhier – were acquitted of murder but convicted of lesser charges including belonging to a terrorist group or trafficking in weapons. Fourteen other people were found guilty of lesser charges such as belonging to a terrorist group. (more…)

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