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HLRecord: Justice and Spirituality / Al Adl Wal Ihsane – A Moroccan View – News

Posted on November 25th, 2006 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Morocco, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Justice and Spirituality – A Moroccan View – News

Sapan Gupta
Issue date: 4/20/06 Section: News

Last Friday, the Islamic Legal Studies Program, along with the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies presented a talk titled “Legal Reform in Morocco: Views of a Moroccan Feminist Dissident.” Along with Nadia Yassine, Emad Shahin from American University of Cairo, and Ann Mayer from University of Pennsylvania were the other participants at the forum. Nadia Yassine is the leading spokesperson for the banned Moroccan Islamist movement Justice and Spirituality (Al Adl Wal Ihsane). Nadia Yassine was at HLS to present her book Full Sails Ahead, recently published by Justice and Spirituality Publishing. With a tight headscarf and loose clothing, the 47-year-old spokeswoman of the Islamic movement looks like a traditional Muslim woman, but often sounds like a western feminist.The group Justice and Spirituality rejects violence and is seen as the main opponent to the North African monarchy. It has a strong following in universities and is popular in poor areas. Many educated middle-class Moroccans see Justice and Spirituality as a backward movement, because of its emphasis on religious values, yet Nadia Yassine believes that Islam holds the keys to the progress that the country yearns for. A vocal social activist in Morocco, Nadia Yassine is now under indictment in Morocco for disrespect of “national sacred institutions.” The indictment is based an interview she gave to the Moroccan weekly Al Usbu’iya Al Jadida in June, 2005 where she adamantly criticized monarchy and favored the republic as the proper system of government, and closest to the Islamic theory of political power. She has been recurrently voicing such views for years. Nadia Yassine is expected to be sentenced from 3 to 5 years of imprisonment, and to be fined from $1000 to $100,000.

Morocco, located in the North African region known as the Maghreb, has a culture drawn from Arab, European, Berber, and African influences. A former French colony, the country has been ruled since 1956 by monarchs who claim executive and religious authority as “Commander of the Faithful.” Since becoming monarch in 1999, King Mohammed VI has introduced a radical and controversial new Islamic family code, the “Mudawwana,” which recognizes women as equal partners in the home, with equal property and divorce rights to men. In a groundbreaking development it eliminated the dictate that men are the head of the household. This created an opportunity for a tremendous cultural shift and revisions within many aspects of Moroccan life.

However, Nadia Yassine believes that Mudawwana comes within the framework of a desire by the North to dominate the South through setting up a standard model for the world in order to facilitate a better cultural domination of nations. In her view, an Islamic state could learn from the West in creating a truly representative democracy, but would not have to separate religion from politics and would create its own model instead of aping the West. Neither Iran, nor Saudi Arabia, nor Afghanistan provide an example to follow, Yassine believes, because nobody has yet managed to create a state faithful to the principles of Islam, she explains. Islam is a totally pacific religion, and people such as Bin Laden tarnish the reputation of other fundamentalist groups which follow a completely different path, she complains. She further subscribes to the view that Mudawwana should be changed. She believes that Mudawwana represents the image of ruling autocracy. Nadia Yassine clarifies that her movement is not against integrating the woman in development and her societal movement bases its activities on a constant intellectual effort of adapting the sacred text to the ever-changing context and advocates the vital need to promote and develop the status of women. “We are not only for amending the status of women, said Yassine, “we are changing such status in real life.” She claims that the proposal of her society concerning the status of women is well ahead of the Mudawwana’s advocated reforms.

Nadia Yassine said that her campaign is purely political and not religious. However, her talk did not explain that if Mudawwana helps in integrating the women to development, why her society is opposing it. During the talk, no particular provisions of Mudawwana were debated or presented as causes of consideration. Two other speakers made brief comments on the topic and were not called upon to answer any questions.In her book, Full Sails Ahead, Nadia Yassine does not blame the West for the Islamic fundamentalism. She commented that “our problems are internal and we should look from inside rather than blaming others.” She further said that “The Bible has not given the rights to Western women. They have earned their own rights and I salute it.”

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Telegraph | News | Town that breeds suicide bombers

Posted on November 25th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Morocco, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Telegraph | News | Town that breeds suicide bombers

By Fiona Govan
Their destination may be almost 3,000 miles away, but the draw of martyrdom in Iraq is proving irresistable for the young men of Tetouan.

American intelligence officials believe that the Moroccan town, less than 30 miles from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, has become one of the world’s most fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.

In the last eight months a group of young men, all worshippers at the same mosque, have left their homes to become suicide bombers in Iraq.

After DNA tests on their bodies, and Moroccan authorities asking families to provide samples, US intelligence traced at least nine of those responsible for recent suicide missions in and around Baghdad to Tetouan and its surrounding area in the foothills of the Rif Mountains.

Local reports suggest that another 21 individuals have left the area to seek martyrdom, following in the footsteps of five other Tetouanis who blew themselves up in a Madrid suburb when cornered by police, who believed they played a part in the train bombings in the Spanish capital in March 2004.

The families of the young men, all in their twenties, tell the same stories – of sons, brothers, husbands who became disillusioned with the daily struggle to earn. (more…)

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Telegraph | News | Town that breeds suicide bombers

Posted on November 25th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Morocco, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Telegraph | News | Town that breeds suicide bombers

By Fiona Govan
Their destination may be almost 3,000 miles away, but the draw of martyrdom in Iraq is proving irresistable for the young men of Tetouan.

American intelligence officials believe that the Moroccan town, less than 30 miles from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, has become one of the world’s most fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.

In the last eight months a group of young men, all worshippers at the same mosque, have left their homes to become suicide bombers in Iraq.

After DNA tests on their bodies, and Moroccan authorities asking families to provide samples, US intelligence traced at least nine of those responsible for recent suicide missions in and around Baghdad to Tetouan and its surrounding area in the foothills of the Rif Mountains.

Local reports suggest that another 21 individuals have left the area to seek martyrdom, following in the footsteps of five other Tetouanis who blew themselves up in a Madrid suburb when cornered by police, who believed they played a part in the train bombings in the Spanish capital in March 2004.

The families of the young men, all in their twenties, tell the same stories – of sons, brothers, husbands who became disillusioned with the daily struggle to earn. (more…)

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Individualisme & Hoop

Posted on November 18th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

In Volkskrant kunnen we lezen dat Hirsi Ali Soumaya S. als de hoop voor Nederland ziet.

AMSTERDAM – Ayaan Hirsi Ali noemt Piranhaverdachte Soumaya S., tegen wie tien jaar gevangenisstraf is geëist, ‘de hoop voor de toekomst’ in de strijd tegen radicalisering. Door het ‘verraad van haar leermeester’, de Haagse imam Fawaz, zijn haar de ogen geopend.
* Boodschap Hirsi Ali

Dit stelde Hirsi Ali vrijdagavond in een audioboodschap bij de presentatie van het boek Strijdsters van Allah. Hirsi Ali herkent veel van zichzelf in Soumaya. Ook zij is in de ban geweest van een radicale prediker als Fawaz. Ze zegt dat zelfstandig nadenkende Hofstadjongeren, niet bereid predikers als Fawaz zonder meer te volgen, naar de bron zelf gaan, naar de Koran.Die jongeren ‘zien dat het er echt staat; dat gebruik van geweld is toegestaan om beledigers van de islam de mond te snoeren. Dat het bij jihad niet alleen gaat om innerlijke strijd om jezelf te verbeteren, maar ook om gewelddadige strijd’. Volgens Hirsi Ali brengen moslims die beweren dat islam slechts vrede betekent, dergelijke gewetensvolle jongeren alleen maar in verwarring.

Het geweten van zelfstandig nadenkende jongeren zal eerder dan dat van ‘geïndoctrineerde meelopers’ gaan botsen met ‘de bevelen uit de Koran’, zegt ze. Daarom wil ze de strijd tegen radicalisering vooral uitvechten in de ‘ideologische arena’. Ze pleit voor een open debat. ‘Zonder taboes of kunstmatige scheiding tussen vreedzame en gewelddadige islam.’

Volgens mij staan hier twee belangrijke denkfouten in. Allereerst dat het geweten van zelfstandig denkende jongeren zou botsen met ‘de bevelen uit de Koran’. Een dergelijke houding ten opzichte van jongeren die op een individualistische wijze de islam beleven zien we vaker. Het zou best kunnen dat dit klopt, maar mijn punt is vooral dat dit geen automatisme is. Autonomie en individualisme zijn geen garantie voor een tolerante en vredelievende interpretatie van de Islam. Autonomie en individualisme betekent dat jongeren de teksten gaan interpreteren op eigen houtje en die koppelen aan hun andere opvattingen, bijvoorbeeld politieke opvattingen. Dit kan leiden tot een vorm van liberalisering, maar net zo goed tot radicalisering.

Het tweede punt is de wijze waarop men omgaat met de Koran. Hoewel je in radicale teksten zeker verwijzingen kunt terugvinden naar de Koran, wordt veel meer gebruik gemaakt van teksten van religieuze geleerden en lekenpredikers. De Koran neemt daarin niet de centrale plek in. Wel politieke ‘analyses’ en interpretaties van die andere geleerden.  Voor de interpretatie van Bin Laden met betrekking tot Jihad, neemt men niet de toevlucht tot de Koran of de traditionele conservatieve geleerden. Bin Laden’s Jihad doctrine is niet meer en niet minder dan een volledige nieuwe interpretatie (Bernard Lewis ziet het zelfs als travestie) van de traditie van de gewelddadige jihad. De reden dat er jongeren zijn die dat volgen, lijkt meer te maken te hebben met hun interpretatie van de lokale en mondiale politieke en sociaal-economische omgeving, dan met de Koran op zich.

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Individualisme & Hoop

Posted on November 18th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

In Volkskrant kunnen we lezen dat Hirsi Ali Soumaya S. als de hoop voor Nederland ziet.

AMSTERDAM – Ayaan Hirsi Ali noemt Piranhaverdachte Soumaya S., tegen wie tien jaar gevangenisstraf is geëist, ‘de hoop voor de toekomst’ in de strijd tegen radicalisering. Door het ‘verraad van haar leermeester’, de Haagse imam Fawaz, zijn haar de ogen geopend.
* Boodschap Hirsi Ali

Dit stelde Hirsi Ali vrijdagavond in een audioboodschap bij de presentatie van het boek Strijdsters van Allah. Hirsi Ali herkent veel van zichzelf in Soumaya. Ook zij is in de ban geweest van een radicale prediker als Fawaz. Ze zegt dat zelfstandig nadenkende Hofstadjongeren, niet bereid predikers als Fawaz zonder meer te volgen, naar de bron zelf gaan, naar de Koran.Die jongeren ‘zien dat het er echt staat; dat gebruik van geweld is toegestaan om beledigers van de islam de mond te snoeren. Dat het bij jihad niet alleen gaat om innerlijke strijd om jezelf te verbeteren, maar ook om gewelddadige strijd’. Volgens Hirsi Ali brengen moslims die beweren dat islam slechts vrede betekent, dergelijke gewetensvolle jongeren alleen maar in verwarring.

Het geweten van zelfstandig nadenkende jongeren zal eerder dan dat van ‘geïndoctrineerde meelopers’ gaan botsen met ‘de bevelen uit de Koran’, zegt ze. Daarom wil ze de strijd tegen radicalisering vooral uitvechten in de ‘ideologische arena’. Ze pleit voor een open debat. ‘Zonder taboes of kunstmatige scheiding tussen vreedzame en gewelddadige islam.’

Volgens mij staan hier twee belangrijke denkfouten in. Allereerst dat het geweten van zelfstandig denkende jongeren zou botsen met ‘de bevelen uit de Koran’. Een dergelijke houding ten opzichte van jongeren die op een individualistische wijze de islam beleven zien we vaker. Het zou best kunnen dat dit klopt, maar mijn punt is vooral dat dit geen automatisme is. Autonomie en individualisme zijn geen garantie voor een tolerante en vredelievende interpretatie van de Islam. Autonomie en individualisme betekent dat jongeren de teksten gaan interpreteren op eigen houtje en die koppelen aan hun andere opvattingen, bijvoorbeeld politieke opvattingen. Dit kan leiden tot een vorm van liberalisering, maar net zo goed tot radicalisering.

Het tweede punt is de wijze waarop men omgaat met de Koran. Hoewel je in radicale teksten zeker verwijzingen kunt terugvinden naar de Koran, wordt veel meer gebruik gemaakt van teksten van religieuze geleerden en lekenpredikers. De Koran neemt daarin niet de centrale plek in. Wel politieke ‘analyses’ en interpretaties van die andere geleerden.  Voor de interpretatie van Bin Laden met betrekking tot Jihad, neemt men niet de toevlucht tot de Koran of de traditionele conservatieve geleerden. Bin Laden’s Jihad doctrine is niet meer en niet minder dan een volledige nieuwe interpretatie (Bernard Lewis ziet het zelfs als travestie) van de traditie van de gewelddadige jihad. De reden dat er jongeren zijn die dat volgen, lijkt meer te maken te hebben met hun interpretatie van de lokale en mondiale politieke en sociaal-economische omgeving, dan met de Koran op zich.

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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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The Revealer: There's Something About Muslims

Posted on November 14th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Multiculti Issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

The Revealer: There’s Something About Muslims
There’s Something About Muslims
09 November 2006

Can multiculturalism prevail as long as women wear the veil? Is the assimilation travail to no avail? Did I mention the veil?

By Bridget Purcell

“There must be something about the Jews; they upset me physically.”

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The Revealer: There’s Something About Muslims

Posted on November 14th, 2006 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Multiculti Issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

The Revealer: There’s Something About Muslims
There’s Something About Muslims
09 November 2006

Can multiculturalism prevail as long as women wear the veil? Is the assimilation travail to no avail? Did I mention the veil?

By Bridget Purcell

“There must be something about the Jews; they upset me physically.”

(more…)

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Khaleej Times Online – Six terrorism suspects arrested in the Netherlands

Posted on November 7th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

Khaleej Times Online – Six terrorism suspects arrested in the Netherlands
Six terrorism suspects arrested in the Netherlands
(AFP)

7 November 2006

THE HAGUE – Six people have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of recruiting volunteers for jihad, or Islamic holy war, prosecutors said on Tuesday after a year-long investigation.

The suspects, five men and a woman, were arrested in The Hague and Amsterdam late Monday and early Tuesday as part of a probe into an international Islamic terror network launched in November 2005, the prosecutor’s office said.

Among the suspects, who were not identified by name, are two Dutch nationals of Moroccan origin, a Turkish man, a Tunisian national, a Moroccan and a sixth with dual Dutch-Moroccan nationality, prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin said.

The six were suspected of ‘recruiting radical Muslims for the international jihad’, a crime under recently amended Dutch laws.

Police were still investigating whether the suspects could also be charged with forming a terrorist organisation, the prosecutor’s office said.

De Bruin added that the Turkish suspect in this case had been acquitted in 2003 after going on trial on suspicion of recruiting for jihad.

At the time, recruiting for jihad was not a crime and the 12 suspects in the 2003 case were charged with the rarely used ‘aiding of the enemy’.

That charge was thrown out by the judges who said the Netherlands were not at war with Afghanistan’s Taleban regime as prosecutors argued.

In 2004 the laws changed in the Netherlands making recruitment for jihad a crime in itself, punishable by a maximum sentence of four years in prison.

The office of the national prosecutor said the current investigation began in November 2005 after police received information about three men from The Hague who had travelled to Azerbaijan to take part in jihad. They were arrested by Azerbaijani authorities in Baku and sent back to the Netherlands.

‘The three youths were suspected of being in contact with a network of extremist Muslims that was recruiting young men for the jihad,’ prosecutors said.

Investigators discovered that potential jihadists were being recruited with inflammatory speeches, pamphlets and videos focusing on the supposed duty of all Muslims to take part in holy war.

Several suspects have also tried to get fake travel documents to travel to Iraq.

The suspects were expected to appear before a judge later this week, who will then rule if they can be remanded in custody.

Prosecution spokesman De Bruin said that the six suspects were not linked to the Hofstad group, a terrorist network led by Mohammed Bouyeri who was convicted for the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, or the six other terrorism suspects on trial in Amsterdam who also have links to Bouyeri.

In recent years there have been several high profile acquittals in Dutch terrorism trials because judges are reluctant to convict suspects for plotting attacks without evidence that they were making clear steps towards carrying them out.

A round up of Dutch and English sources I have (in particular about the Turkish suspect Murat Ö aka Abu Jarrah aka Abu Zer aka Ibrahim the Turk and the so called Eik (Oak) case of 2002/2003):
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The Piranha Trial: Friend or Foe?

Posted on November 6th, 2006 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

Six alleged Muslim radicals with links to the murderer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh stood on trial  (the so called Piranha trial) the last weeks accused of plotting terrorist attacks on Dutch politicians and government buildings. The main suspect is 20-year-old Samir Azzouz. He was acquitted in 2005 on terrorism charges but re-arrested in October 2005 on suspicion of planning attacks against politicians and the Dutch intelligence service headquarters. Azzouz has been linked to the so-called Hofstad Islamic extremist group led by Mohammed Bouyeri, who was sentenced in 2005 to life imprisonment for the November 2004 murder of van Gogh – an outspoken critic of (radical) Islam. Nine members of the group were convicted in the Hofstad-trial for up to 15 years for membership of a criminal and terrorist organisation. Azzouz was not been formally charged with belonging to that group, however.

Samir A. has been under surveillance of Dutch authorities since 2003 when he made a futile attempt to travel to Chechnya to join the separatist war there. He was arrested in October 2003 on suspicion of planning to manufacture a bomb but was released for lack of evidence. (He lacked the necessary ingredients for making a bomb). In June 2004 he was re-arrested after police said they found chemicals, plans of government buildings and maps which was the cause for a major terror alarm in the Netherlands. He was again acquitted after an appeals court found that his “clumsy” plans did not represent a solid threat. Prosecutors now claim they have stronger evidence that Azzouz and the other five suspects were planning an attack, including a video testament. In that testament he appears in Bin-Laden-like attire with a machine gun leaning against the wall behind him. On the video he says among other things: “We must prepare to die today. […] I say to you that between us and you there will only be the language of the sword until you leave Muslims alone.

Prosecutors today asked to sentence six youngsters to prison terms of up to 15 years for allegedly conspiring to commit a terrorist attack on Dutch politicians, possibly including Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and former MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the creative partner of slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh. The heaviest sentence was demanded for Samir Azzouz, the group’s alleged ringleader: 15 years. They also urged to sentence 15 years of prison for Mohammed Chentouf who was considered to be a key person in the group. Lesser sentences were demanded for four other suspects (ranging from 12 years to one year) who were seen as taking a less active role as the other two. The verdict is expected Nov. 23.

Evidence against the suspects includes weapons, an alleged videotaped suicide testament, bomb-making manuals and radical Islamist propaganda. With regard to the latter, also other material (not radical) was found but that was not included in the trial. The evidence also includes a tapped telephone call between Azzouz and a convicted terrorist implying that an attack was imminent. In addition, two alleged members of the group testified against Azzouz and the others. For the prosecution this amounts to a very clear cut conclusion: this group was planning the terrorist murder of one or more politicians by means of a weapon or by detonating an explosive.

The defense lawyers (of course) think otherwise. They will give closing statements Wednesday and claim that the suspects are innocent and victims of police harassment. They claim that the two witnesses, Lahbib and Hanan Bachar, are unreliable and were themselves suspects in the case. All the suspects they claim were friends but not an organization and the prosecutors could not link much of the evidence (including the weapons) to the subjects. Azzouz stated during the trial that the video testament was just a joke, and that he would never kill somebody in the Netherlands, because in his view that is forbidden in Islam.

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Protected: nrc.nl – Binnenland – Linker dan Mohammed B.

Posted on November 6th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

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Press Gazette – Ex-Reuters editor studies effect of jihadi propaganda

Posted on November 5th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Press Gazette -  Ex-Reuters editor studies effect of jihadi propaganda

By Zoe Smith
Thursday, 2 November 2006

In Jihad TV, a documentary to be broadcast on Channel 4 next week, Eedle investigates the jihadi propaganda machine and its impact on young Arabs and young British Muslims.

He told Press Gazette: “It is vitally important that people in Britain and America understand the motives and strategies of the people they are fighting, whether it’s Al Qaeda globally led by Osama bin Laden or the different insurgent groups in Iraq.”

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Protected: Waterland – De vrouwen van Samir A.

Posted on November 5th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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Protected: Trouw, deVerdieping| podium – Radicale islam / Oorlog tegen het terrorisme werkt averechts (Podium)

Posted on November 4th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

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Protected: Trouw, deVerdieping| podium – Radicale islam / Oorlog tegen het terrorisme werkt averechts (Podium)

Posted on November 4th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

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Cursing, incitement to hatred and internal politics

Posted on November 2nd, 2006 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

Several blogs have reported already about the sermon delivered by imam Fawaz Jneid of the As Soennah mosque, a Salafi mosque in The Hague. In this sermon he cursed Hirsi Ali and Van Gogh in a very brutal manner. One of the attendants was Mohammed B.; yes the guy who killed Van Gogh. According to Radio Netherlands (I suggest you read that article!):

In the recording of the sermon, Imam Fawaz calls Theo van Gogh a ‘criminal bastard’ and beseeches Allah to visit an incurable disease upon the filmmaker. He also condemns former Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali who was involved in writing the script for Submission. The imam asks Allah to make Ms Hirsi Ali go blind and give her cancer of the tongue and brain.

Two questions that immediately emerge is why do other Muslims not distance themselves from people like this imam and is this a hate speech? (more…)

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Protected: de Volkskrant – Binnenland – Waarom Soumaya S. scheidde van Nouredine el F.

Posted on November 2nd, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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AD.nl – Nieuwe radicaal staat klaar

Posted on November 2nd, 2006 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

AD.nl – Nieuwe radicaal staat klaar/
Patrick Pouw heeft gesproken met Redouane Boughabe, broer van één van de Hofstad-leden Fahmi. Het is niet de eerste keer dat deze jongen de krant haalt, het verhaal is min of meer hetzelfde hoewel Pouw er beter in is geslaagd de drijfveren van deze jongen weer te geven.

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The Ottowa Citizen: Lessons from Holland

Posted on November 1st, 2006 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).

Lessons from Holland
Lessons from Holland – Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen
Europe’s challenge: The murders of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and politician Pim Fortuyn, as well as the Danish cartoon riots, have led some to declare that Western Europe is in the throes of a new clash of civilizations pitting Muslim immigrants against non-Muslims. Senior writer Dan Gardner visited Holland and Denmark recently and found that, while there are some serious problems, the situation is not as bleak as it is often depicted.
It’s also a good way to stop integration in its track. A young man whose parents came from Morocco, who was born in the Netherlands and has never lived anywhere else, will naturally feel ties to the land he knows and the land he thinks he knows through his parents. This is the story of immigrants everywhere. As time and generations pass, the links to the new country grow stronger while those to the old wither.

But if you tell this young man over and over he is Moroccan, and you tell him Moroccans are criminals and troublemakers, he may well decide you are right. He is 100-per-cent Moroccan. To hell with Holland and to hell with you.

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Fawaz en het ‘ridiculiseren van God’

Posted on October 31st, 2006 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

Volkskrant en Parool weet te melden dat imam Fawaz van de As Soennah moskee Hirsi Ali en Van Gogh een dodelijke ziekte heeft toegewenst. De tekst van de preek is HIER terug te vinden en HIER te beluisteren. Het gaat om een preek waarbij Fawaz aan het einde een smeekbede (du’a) doet en daarbij zegt:

(UPDATED)

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Fawaz en het 'ridiculiseren van God'

Posted on October 31st, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

Volkskrant en Parool weet te melden dat imam Fawaz van de As Soennah moskee Hirsi Ali en Van Gogh een dodelijke ziekte heeft toegewenst. De tekst van de preek is HIER terug te vinden en HIER te beluisteren. Het gaat om een preek waarbij Fawaz aan het einde een smeekbede (du’a) doet en daarbij zegt:

(UPDATED)

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Protected: de Volkskrant – Binnenland – ‘Getuige Piranha-zaak zelf radicaal’

Posted on October 28th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Religious and Political Radicalization.

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de Volkskrant – Binnenland – ‘Na één woord Arabisch: straf’

Posted on October 25th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

de Volkskrant – Binnenland – ‘Na één woord Arabisch: straf’
‘Na één woord Arabisch: straf’

Achtergrond Van onze verslaggeefsters Janny Groen, Annieke Kranenberg

AMSTERDAM – De Hofstadveroordeelden kunnen het strenge gevangenisregime in Vught niet meer aan. Samir A. wist een brief aan de Volkskrant naar buiten te smokkelen om de wereld daarover te vertellen.

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Jamestown.org – Jihadis Provide Internet Training for Female Mujahideen

Posted on October 22nd, 2006 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

Jihadis Provide Internet Training for Female Mujahideen
Jihadis Provide Internet Training for Female Mujahideen

By Abdul Hameed Bakier
The use of female suicide bombers by Islamist militant groups in countries such as Iraq, Jordan, Afghanistan and Indian Kashmir has exceeded the traditional constraints that Salafi-Jihadi ideology imposes on women. Observers of jihadi cyber activities have noticed an increase in the number of websites dedicated to mujahidat (female mujahideen), linked either directly or ideologically to al-Qaeda. The physical and spiritual preparation of the mujahidat has recently spread to many jihadi websites. (more…)

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Magharebia.com – Co-producer of “Ramadan Primetime” discusses anti-terrorist television shows during Ramadan (Magharebia.com)

Posted on October 18th, 2006 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Co-producer of “Ramadan Primetime” discusses anti-terrorist television shows during Ramadan (Magharebia.com)
Co-producer of “Ramadan Primetime” discusses anti-terrorist television shows during Ramadan

13/10/2006

Souheila Al-Jadda, a journalist and producer, talks to Magharebia about Ramadan programming, specifically the emergence of anti-terrorism serials, explaining their role in promoting peace and tolerance.

By Farah Kinani for Magharebia in Washington – 13/10/06

[File] Al-Jadda says Ramadan television series can promote peace and tolerance.

Souheila Al-Jadda co-produced “Ramadan Primetime”, a 30-minute documentary about specially-crafted Ramadan primetime programming shown on dozens of Arabic television channels.

Magharebia: Why is Ramadan starting to be related to anti-terror serials?

Souheila Al-Jadda: I believe that many Arab governments are realising they need to take a more proactive role in warning the public about terrorism. Part of their interest is security-related and another part is about public awareness. These serials reflect reality. Screenwriters are also interested in touching upon the social, political and international issues of today that affect Arabs. There is a desire by governments to fund such programmes, as many are state-funded, and there is also a desire by the media itself to touch upon these issues, which are part of Arab society. (more…)

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