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Mak in het 'Land van Ooit'

Posted on May 15th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications, Misc. News, Multiculti Issues, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Uncategorized.

Op 27 november publiceerde Geert Mak ‘een kleine geschiedenis van november‘ over Nederland van en na Van Gogh. Een zeer interessant en lezenswaardig stuk vooral als je in ogenschouw neemt dat het zo snel na de moord is geschreven. Goed, er zaten wel wat missers in, en niet iedereen deelde zijn kritiek op de term ‘moslimterrorisme’, maar ik vond het een goed stuk. Juist ook vanwege de kritiek op de term ‘moslimterrorisme‘.

Mijn verbazing was dan ook groot toen zijn pamflet Gedoemd tot kwetsbaarheid verscheen. Ongekend veel fouten (met groot enthousiasme gezocht door velen en gevonden dus ook)en zeer boude vergelijking tussen Submission en ‘Der ewige Jude’. Dat Mak stelt dat het hier om een technische vergelijking gaat en hij beide films niet op het zelfde plan plaatst, ok daar ga ik in mee aangezien dat ook wel mijn indruk was bij het lezen van dat (overigens zeer kleine) deel. Probleem is natuurlijk dat hij daarmee de schijn wekt dat het een neutrale vergelijking is en dat is het niet. WOII en de nazi’s vormen een soort moreel ijkpunt, een brandpunt van alles wat slecht is en iedere vergelijking krijgt dat automatisch mee.

Nu is er dan eindelijk zijn reactie o p schrift en bij het programma Rondom Tien. Oordeel zelf maar:
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Islam and Muslims in Cyberspace

Posted on May 4th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications, Public Islam.

On Islam Online.net an interesting article by Dalia Yusuf Islam and Muslims in Cyberspace: From (Re)presenting to (Re) understanding

An initial study of Islam and Muslim environments in cyberspace proves that there is a great chance for representing Islam and Muslims.

Using the Internet as an alternative and interpersonal form of communication may help to break the traditional cycle of stereotyping among Muslims themselves and between Muslims and others. A more profound and deliberate study may lead us to recognize the possibility of reunderstanding and rediscovering not only the other but also Muslim self-understanding.

To a certain extent, any study of Muslims using the Internet may begin with the predictable psychological barrier between committed Muslims and the media. This was reflected in a discussion on whether the Internet is lawful or prohibited, as the Internet seems to raise issues of pornography and privacy. One Muslim user lamented, ï¿½The already critical social problems of Muslim youth at present will be further worsened by the emerging Internet technology.ï¿½ 1 This was an expected argument among the various reactions.

Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic Environments

Posted on May 4th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

Two reviews of Gary Bunt’s book Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic Environments. One by Alan Sondheim and one by Robert Tynes

For people who don’t know it already, Gary Bunt’s Blog is an important source of information for my blog.

Read the reviews here: (more…)

Isim: Islam and Democracy – Perverse Charm of an Irrelevant Question

Posted on April 25th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications, Misc. News, Research International.

Islam and Democracy: Perverse Charm of an Irrelevant Question is the title of the Inaugural lecture of Dr Asef Bayat as ISIM Chair at Leiden University

On the occasion of the inaugural lecture of Dr Asef Bayat a conference on Social Transformation in the Islamic Republic is organized, 27-28 April 2005, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Click here for an interview with Asef Bayat.

Protected: 21minuten.nl: positief over de toekomst

Posted on April 23rd, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications, Religious and Political Radicalization, Some personal considerations, Young Muslims.

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Contested discourses

Posted on April 19th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

My colleague from the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Marcel Maussen has written two interesting articles. One in English:
Policy Discourses on Mosques in the Netherlands 1980ï¿½2002: Contested Constructions.

Abstract:

The establishment of mosques is an incentive for public discussions on Islam and the presence of Muslims in Western European societies. This article critically reconstructs Public Policy discourses on mosque establishment in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. It shows how urban-planning discourses, and their specific frames, which came to dominate mosque establishment as a policy issue in Rotterdam from the 1980s onwards, created their own set of meanings. The article analyses these discourses in terms of their enabling and constraining roles during a period in which local authorities became more involved in the improvement and placement of new mosques in the Rotterdam area. On the one hand, the urban renewal framework allowed for a substantial improvement in the housing of Islamic religious and cultural practice. On the other hand, urban planning policy discursive practices gave less attention to issues such as visibility and presence that are now at the heart of the heated debates about Muslim populations in Dutch society. More recent discussions on the aesthetics and location of mosques in Rotterdam illustrate how these dominant discourses are not only contestable but are also being contested from all quarters.

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, April 2004, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 147-162(16)

And the other one in Dutch, about the Left after the murder on Van Gogh: Links en de moord.

Sinds 2 november is Nederland verwikkeld in een debat over de betekenis van de moord op Theo van Gogh. Dit artikel analyseert de discussie na de moord op Van Gogh als een proces van betekenistoedeling. Hierbij maken wij gebruik van de concepten ï¿½kaderï¿½ (ï¿½frameï¿½) en ï¿½vertoogï¿½ (ï¿½discourseï¿½). Het toont aan dat het denken wordt bepaald door de neo-realistische taal waarin we de moord bespreken. Links moet zich uit die taal bevrijden omdat haar eigen waarden daarin niet goed tot uitdrukking kunnen worden gebracht. Er is een alternatief.

Socialisme & Democratie 12, 2004.

Tariq Ramadan: An International call for Moratorium on corporal punishment, stoning and the death penalty in the Islamic World

Posted on March 31st, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications, Internal Debates, Islam in the Netherlands.

In several European newspapers an article written by Tariq Ramadan today. In the Netherlands this article appeared in NRC Handelsblad called: Stop tijdelijk toepassing van shari’a.

Tariq Ramadan is very popular among many European young Muslims. His message to them, in short, is that they have no excuse for not behaving like and being a good Muslim in Europe. He is controversial because of, among other things, his vagueness about several items in the shari’a. This article can be seen as an attempt to clarify that position: he calls for a moratorium on applying the shari’a and for a discussion about the sources of the shari’a.

In the name of the scriptural sources, the Islamic teachings, and the contemporary Muslim conscience, statements must be made and decisions need to be taken.

[…]

we launch today a call for an immediate international moratorium on corporal punishment, stoning and the death penalty in all Muslim majority countries. Considering that the opinions of most scholars, regarding the comprehension of the texts and the application of hudÃ»d, are neither explicit nor unanimous (indeed there is not even a clear majority), and bearing in mind that political systems and the state of the majority Muslim societies do not guarantee a just and equal treatment of individuals before the law, it is our moral obligation and religious responsibility to demand for the immediate suspension of the application of the hudÃ»d which is inaccurately accepted as an application of â€œIslamic sharÃ®â€™aâ€.
This call doubles itself with a series of basic questions addressed to the body of Islamic religious authorities of the world, whatever their tradition (sunnÃ® or shÃ®â€™Ã®), their school of thought (hanÃ¢fÃ®, mÃ¢likÃ®, jaâ€™farÃ®, etc.) or their tendencies (literalist, salafÃ®, reformist, etc.)

or in Dutch:

Ik roep op tot een onmiddellijk moratorium in de islamitisch wereld in naam van de principes van de islam zelf.

Voor het Westen zijn lijfstraffen, steniging en doodstraf in naam van een religieuze verwijzing die aan een hele maatschappij wordt opgelegd niet aanvaardbaar: men moet deze praktijken zonder meer veroordelen.
De islamitische wereld geeft zeer tegenstrijdige signalen af: harde en definitieve veroordelingen komen van een kleine minderheid van intellectuelen of sociale en politieke actoren, terwijl bepaalde regeringen proberen hun `islamitische’ karakter te laten zien door de toepassing van deze repressieve praktijken.
Delen van de islamitische wereld (van Nigeria tot MaleisiÃ«) eisen strikte toepassing van de shari’a, terwijl de meeste ulema’s (islamitische schriftgeleerden – red.) verzekeren dat deze straffen `bijna nooit opgelegd kunnen worden’ (door op de vereiste voorwaarden te wijzen), maar zij vermijden zich daarover duidelijk uit te spreken (meestal om hun geloofwaardigheid bij de bevolking niet te verliezen).

(The article in the NRC is somewhat different from the original call).

On Ramadan’s website you can also find several comments already.
For the complete text in English and Dutch: (more…)

Islam's Culture War – Christianity Today Magazine

Posted on March 9th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications.

A review article Islam’s Culture War in Christianity Today Magazine on Why the Rest Hates the West from church historian Meic Pearse.

Pearse argues that Western culture has changed so much since the Enlightenment that Western “common sense” is no longer self-evident to other cultures. Islamic cultures believe the West is “barbaric,” showing lack of respect for the past, religion, family, and honor, while overindulging in sports, entertainment, and sex.

Woodberry agrees somewhat with this but he also argues:

I have recently been served a tv diet of American professional wrestling and the exhibitionism of former basketball player Dennis Rodman in a Pakistani airport and in an Arab-operated airplane, so I appreciate the author’s critique. But we should not overemphasize cultural issues. A Pew survey in June 2003 that reported growing Islamic rage at the United States also found that Muslims are attracted to democratic freedoms. A poll of 50 countries found that people even in monarchies (like Jordan and Kuwait) and more authoritarian states (like Uzbekistan and Pakistan) desire freedom of expression and of the press, multiparty systems, and equal treatment under the law.

Islam’s Culture War – Christianity Today Magazine

Posted on March 9th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

A review article Islam’s Culture War in Christianity Today Magazine on Why the Rest Hates the West from church historian Meic Pearse.

Pearse argues that Western culture has changed so much since the Enlightenment that Western “common sense” is no longer self-evident to other cultures. Islamic cultures believe the West is “barbaric,” showing lack of respect for the past, religion, family, and honor, while overindulging in sports, entertainment, and sex.

Woodberry agrees somewhat with this but he also argues:

I have recently been served a tv diet of American professional wrestling and the exhibitionism of former basketball player Dennis Rodman in a Pakistani airport and in an Arab-operated airplane, so I appreciate the author’s critique. But we should not overemphasize cultural issues. A Pew survey in June 2003 that reported growing Islamic rage at the United States also found that Muslims are attracted to democratic freedoms. A poll of 50 countries found that people even in monarchies (like Jordan and Kuwait) and more authoritarian states (like Uzbekistan and Pakistan) desire freedom of expression and of the press, multiparty systems, and equal treatment under the law.

ISIM Publications ISIM Review 15

Posted on February 28th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

ISIM ISIM Review 15 The ISIM Newsletter has been transformed into the ISIM Review. A lot of interesting articles:

In S & D: Voor Allah en mijzelf. Jonge Marokkanen op zoek naar de 'echte' islam

Posted on February 10th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications, My Research, Young Muslims.

Wiardi Beckman Stichting | details
Hoe broos is onze democratische samenleving? Een analyse van de verwarring door Frank Buijs. De zoektochten naar de ‘echte’ islam worden in kaart gebracht door Martijn de Koning & Edien Bartels.

INHOUD nummer 1/2, 2005, jaargang 62
maandblad van de Wiardi Beckman Stichting
wetenschappelijk bureau van de Partij van de Arbeid
8 POLDERMOSLIMS: IDENTITEIT GEZOCHT

10 Frank Buijs Waarom het islamitisch extremisme tot introspectie dwingt

19 Martijn de Koning & Edien Bartels Voor Allah en mijzelf. Jonge Marokkanen op zoek naar de ï¿½echteï¿½ islam

27 Said Bouddouft Nederlandse Marokkanen en het nut van wantrouwen

In S & D: Voor Allah en mijzelf. Jonge Marokkanen op zoek naar de ‘echte’ islam

Posted on February 10th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications, My Research, Young Muslims.

Wiardi Beckman Stichting | details
Hoe broos is onze democratische samenleving? Een analyse van de verwarring door Frank Buijs. De zoektochten naar de ‘echte’ islam worden in kaart gebracht door Martijn de Koning & Edien Bartels.

INHOUD nummer 1/2, 2005, jaargang 62
maandblad van de Wiardi Beckman Stichting
wetenschappelijk bureau van de Partij van de Arbeid
8 POLDERMOSLIMS: IDENTITEIT GEZOCHT

10 Frank Buijs Waarom het islamitisch extremisme tot introspectie dwingt

19 Martijn de Koning & Edien Bartels Voor Allah en mijzelf. Jonge Marokkanen op zoek naar de ï¿½echteï¿½ islam

27 Said Bouddouft Nederlandse Marokkanen en het nut van wantrouwen

Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop Edited by miriam cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence

Posted on February 4th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop Edited by miriam cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence
Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop

Edited by miriam cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence
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Daily Times – Site Edition Deconstruction ï¿½ Derridaï¿½s lasting legacy ï¿½Suroosh Irfani

Posted on January 19th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications, Internal Debates, Some personal considerations.

Daily Times – Site Edition
INSIGHT: Deconstruction ï¿½ Derridaï¿½s lasting legacy ï¿½Suroosh Irfani

With thanks to I d e a n t: Derrida and God.

Suroosh Irani’s very interesting article Deconstruction – Derrida’s lasting legacy. As Ideant correctly states:

The article succinctly summarizes the uses and abuses of deconstruction, but more importantly, gives us a glimpse into a man’s quest for understanding the Divine in his own terms, free from the indoctrination of religious as well as secular fanaticism and formulas.

More people should do that…
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Expatica – Worker order for DHC-rappers who dissed Hirsi Ali

Posted on January 14th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications, Multiculti Issues, Some personal considerations, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).

Expatica – Living in, moving to, or working in the Netherlands, plus Dutch news in English
Rappers face court for Hirsi Ali threats

The Boys from DHC faced court and the public prosecutor demanded a working order. I wrote an article about this diss trying to explain it in relation to the global hiphopculture and Dutch youth culture.
We can see this diss as an attempt of some young Moroccans who are born and raised in Holland to express their feelings and to participate in the integrationdebate. The analogy with American hiphop is the feeling of discrimination and oppression. It is expressed in a way that fits Dutch youth culture and the Dutch hiphopculture. We can say oh their they go again and ‘blame the system’ but you can also pay attention and see how deep the feelings of disrespect by dutch natives are with the boys. And be fair, is the way the integrationdebate is going in which young muslims have nothing to say anymore about their own religion, in which muslims can be called goatfuckers and their prophet a pedophile and where a politician wants to eat the headscarfs raw (is that a good english expression?), more constructive than this Hirsi Ali Diss?

The Journal of Turkish Weekly Globalized Islam – Interview with Olivier Roy

Posted on January 6th, 2005 by .
Categories: Important Publications, Research International.

The Journal of Turkish Weekly
Globalized Islam – Interview with Olivier Roy

In 2002, after years of work on political Islam, French scholar Olivier Roy published a major book on “globalized Islam”. A revised and updated version of this work has now been published in English.

According to Roy’s analysis, contemporary Islamic projects are becoming increasingly disconnected from a particular territory, partly as a consequence of the failure of all attempts to build an Islamic state. This means that trends are likely to move more and more toward an Islamization of individuals within the context of a global, de-territorialized ummah. This applies to both pietistic movements and radical, political forms of Islam, according to Roy.
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In Memoriam: Susan Sontag

Posted on December 28th, 2004 by .
Categories: Important Publications, Misc. News.

Religion Research Islam Blog Â» Regarding the Torture of Others
Regarding the Torture of Others

Susan Sontag has passed away. In memory of her, a link to an older entry on ‘Regarding the Torture of Others.

et – Full Story

Posted on December 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

et – Full Story
Two groundbreaking books examine the web as a tool of Islam, Islamism and Islamist terrorism

IN 2000, GARY Bunt, a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter, published a seminal work on Islam and the internet. Virtually Islamic: Computer-mediated Communication and Cyber Islamic Environments (Cardiff: University of Wales Press) explored the dialectic between Islam, as the fastest-growing religion in the world, and the world wide web, the communications medium of the millennium.

Academische Boekengids Een portret van de 96-jarige Franse etnologe Germaine Tillion

Posted on December 16th, 2004 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

Academische Boekengids
Een portret van de 96-jarige Franse etnologe Germaine Tillion

Van den Brink verwijst in zijn stuk (zie hieronder) nar Germaine Tillion. Via de hierbijgevoegde link vind je een beschrijving van haar werk.
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spiked-politics | Article | Fundamentalism begins at home

Posted on December 16th, 2004 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

spiked-politics | Article | Fundamentalism begins at home
Fundamentalism begins at home

A review of Roy’s book Globalisation of Islam.

Roy notes that cyberspace is full of people that could be ‘Mr Anybody’ pronouncing on what ‘Islam meansï¿½’.

These more individualised forms of Islam are linked to fundamentalist violence. ‘Dutch public opinion is blaming foreign culture for the murder of Theo van Gogh’, Roy tells me, ‘but if you look at the background of the guy who did that, he is fluent in Dutch, he is a Dutch citizen, and you even have two converts from an American father and a Dutch mother who played a big role in the plot. Clearly the more radical violence is linked to the deterritorialisation and globalisation of Islam’.

spiked-politics | Article | Fundamentalism begins at home

Posted on December 16th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications.

spiked-politics | Article | Fundamentalism begins at home
Fundamentalism begins at home

A review of Roy’s book Globalisation of Islam.

Roy notes that cyberspace is full of people that could be ‘Mr Anybody’ pronouncing on what ‘Islam meansï¿½’.

These more individualised forms of Islam are linked to fundamentalist violence. ‘Dutch public opinion is blaming foreign culture for the murder of Theo van Gogh’, Roy tells me, ‘but if you look at the background of the guy who did that, he is fluent in Dutch, he is a Dutch citizen, and you even have two converts from an American father and a Dutch mother who played a big role in the plot. Clearly the more radical violence is linked to the deterritorialisation and globalisation of Islam’.

Presentatie Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika tijdschrift ZemZem & 400 jaar betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko: wat heb ik daarmee te maken?

Posted on December 13th, 2004 by .
Categories: Important Publications, Islam in the Netherlands, Morocco.

Zemzem.org
Presentatie & debat zondag 19 december, Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam

NIEUW Presentatie Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika tijdschrift ZemZem

DEBAT 400 jaar betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko: wat heb ik daarmee te maken?

Op zondag 19 december wordt in de Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam het nieuwe Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika tijdschrift ZemZem gepresenteerd. ZemZem is het enige onafhankelijke tijdschrift in Nederland en Belgiï¿½ over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en de islam. Het eerste nummer van ZemZem is een Marokko-special. (zie onder voor inhoud)

Ter gelegenheid van het feestjaar “400 jaar betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko” in 2005 organiseert ZemZem zondag 19 december tussen 15.00 en 18.00 het grote debat: “400 jaar betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko: wat heb ik daarmee te maken?” in de Eggertzaal van de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam.

Programma:

14.30 Inloop met Marokkaanse thee

15.00 – Opening door Said El Haji (schrijver)

– Inleiding door Paolo De Mas (Marokko-kenner, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Rapgroep Bees80 treedt diverse malen op tijdens het programma

DEBAT met:

– Naima Azough (Tweede Kamerlid Groen Links)

– Tarik Fraihi (politiek filosoof en voorzitter Vlaamse interculturele organisatie KifKif)

– Mohammed Benzakour (publicist)

o.l.v. Meindert Fennema (hoogleraar Politiek theorie etnische verhoudingen, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Rapgroep Bees80 treedt diverse malen op tijdens het programma

17-18.00 Gelegenheid tot bezoeken tentoonstelling Marokko: 5000 jaar cultuur in de Nieuwe Kerk

18.00 Borrel

Inhoud ZemZem

Het eerste nummer van ZemZem is een Marokko-special met opinie-artikelen over de moord op Theo van Gogh, reportage over de film Submission in Marokko, historische betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko 1605-2005, migratie, islamisten in Marokko, AEL in Nederland en Belgiï¿½, reportage over de Westelijke Sahara, reisverhaal joods Marokko, interview Berber theatermaker, Marokkaanse websites, Marokkaanse rappers en hun boodschap, hervorming Marokkaanse familiewetgeving, mode en literatuur.

ZemZem is een fusie tussen Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika tijdschrift Soera en Sharqiyyat, wetenschappelijk tijdschrift van de Nederlandse vereniging voor Studie van het Midden-Oosten en de Islam (MOI). ZemZem werkt nauw samen met de Vlaamse interculturele organisatie KifKif.

Informatie:

Kaarten reserveren is helaas niet mogelijk.

Voor meer informatie kunt u een email sturen aan info@zemzem.org.

Graag verwelkomen wij u op zondag 19 december.

Redactie ZemZem

Postbus 16929

1001 RK Amsterdam

Email: info@zemzem.org

Website: www.zemzem.org

ZemZem is het enige onafhankelijke opinieblad over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en de islam in Nederland en Belgiï¿½.

Presentatie Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika tijdschrift ZemZem & 400 jaar betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko: wat heb ik daarmee te maken?

Posted on December 13th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications, Islam in the Netherlands, Morocco.

Zemzem.org
Presentatie & debat zondag 19 december, Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam

NIEUW Presentatie Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika tijdschrift ZemZem

DEBAT 400 jaar betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko: wat heb ik daarmee te maken?

Op zondag 19 december wordt in de Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam het nieuwe Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika tijdschrift ZemZem gepresenteerd. ZemZem is het enige onafhankelijke tijdschrift in Nederland en Belgiï¿½ over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en de islam. Het eerste nummer van ZemZem is een Marokko-special. (zie onder voor inhoud)

Ter gelegenheid van het feestjaar “400 jaar betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko” in 2005 organiseert ZemZem zondag 19 december tussen 15.00 en 18.00 het grote debat: “400 jaar betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko: wat heb ik daarmee te maken?” in de Eggertzaal van de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam.

Programma:

14.30 Inloop met Marokkaanse thee

15.00 – Opening door Said El Haji (schrijver)

– Inleiding door Paolo De Mas (Marokko-kenner, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Rapgroep Bees80 treedt diverse malen op tijdens het programma

DEBAT met:

– Naima Azough (Tweede Kamerlid Groen Links)

– Tarik Fraihi (politiek filosoof en voorzitter Vlaamse interculturele organisatie KifKif)

– Mohammed Benzakour (publicist)

o.l.v. Meindert Fennema (hoogleraar Politiek theorie etnische verhoudingen, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Rapgroep Bees80 treedt diverse malen op tijdens het programma

17-18.00 Gelegenheid tot bezoeken tentoonstelling Marokko: 5000 jaar cultuur in de Nieuwe Kerk

18.00 Borrel

Inhoud ZemZem

Het eerste nummer van ZemZem is een Marokko-special met opinie-artikelen over de moord op Theo van Gogh, reportage over de film Submission in Marokko, historische betrekkingen Nederland-Marokko 1605-2005, migratie, islamisten in Marokko, AEL in Nederland en Belgiï¿½, reportage over de Westelijke Sahara, reisverhaal joods Marokko, interview Berber theatermaker, Marokkaanse websites, Marokkaanse rappers en hun boodschap, hervorming Marokkaanse familiewetgeving, mode en literatuur.

ZemZem is een fusie tussen Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika tijdschrift Soera en Sharqiyyat, wetenschappelijk tijdschrift van de Nederlandse vereniging voor Studie van het Midden-Oosten en de Islam (MOI). ZemZem werkt nauw samen met de Vlaamse interculturele organisatie KifKif.

Informatie:

Kaarten reserveren is helaas niet mogelijk.

Voor meer informatie kunt u een email sturen aan info@zemzem.org.

Graag verwelkomen wij u op zondag 19 december.

Redactie ZemZem

Postbus 16929

1001 RK Amsterdam

Email: info@zemzem.org

Website: www.zemzem.org

ZemZem is het enige onafhankelijke opinieblad over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en de islam in Nederland en Belgiï¿½.

Islam and the West: Essays dispense with hidden mythologies

Posted on November 19th, 2004 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

The Daily Star – Book Reviews – Islam and the West: Essays dispense with hidden mythologies

The stated aim of “Shaping the Current Islamic Reformation” is to steer a middle course between the two extremes of academia and the media. According to its jacket, it seeks to “go beyond the media presentation of the impact of a politicised notion of Islam in the region and to consider the reality that lies behind current issues in the region and the role that an embedded Islam has played or may play.” Admittedly a book should never be judged by either its cover or its jacket, but editor B. A. Roberson’s introductory essay goes on to reaffirm that the book’s objective is to attempt to offer a more balanced view of the region than traditionally presented in the Western media “from news to film which very often trades on the incompatibility of Islamic or Muslim culture and ideas with modernity.
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Posted on November 11th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications, Public Islam.

Times Online – Sunday Times

ï¿½Whereas jihad sublimates internal tensions and projects them outward, toward the land of unbelief, fitna undermines Muslim society from within.ï¿½

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