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Protected: Trouw, archief – Radicalisme is lekker simpel

Posted on January 26th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Multiculti Issues, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Research International, Young Muslims.

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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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Scholar Combatant

Posted on December 2nd, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Chapati Mystery: Scholar Combatant

On Chapati Mystery an interesting entry on Bernard Lewis.

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Posted on November 30th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

NPR : Europe, Islam’s New Front Line: Britain

Among Britain’s 1.8 million Muslims, anxiety is growing over a sharp rise in what the British call Islamophobia. Post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorist legislation and proposals for even tougher measures have led to widespread disaffection, anger and isolation among Muslim youth. The result is a widening generational disconnect, as NPR’s Sylvia Poggioli reports from London in the third story in our series on Muslims in Europe

Europe, Islam's New Front Line: Germany

Posted on November 25th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Research International.

NPR : Europe, Islam’s New Front Line: Germany

The death of a Dutch filmmaker, at the hands of a suspected Muslim extremist, has Germans anxious that religious unrest will spread to their own country. NPR’s Sylvia Poggioli continues a five-part series on Europe as the emerging battlefield in the struggle to define Muslim identity.

Europe, Islam’s New Front Line: Germany

Posted on November 25th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

NPR : Europe, Islam’s New Front Line: Germany

The death of a Dutch filmmaker, at the hands of a suspected Muslim extremist, has Germans anxious that religious unrest will spread to their own country. NPR’s Sylvia Poggioli continues a five-part series on Europe as the emerging battlefield in the struggle to define Muslim identity.

The reform of Islam

Posted on November 15th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Black Triangle: The reform of Islam

From Anthony Cox’ blog Black Triangle. “The New York Review of Books reviews nine books about Islam and discusses the forces for change within the Muslim world. The article suggests there are two reform movements already underway in the Muslim world and that current “centrism” from moderate Islamists is a transitional phase, as the religion regroups in order to confront modernism. One reform group is Al Qaeda.”

Religion and Modernity – One-day conference on the occasion of the Erasmus Prize 2004 for Sadik Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi and Abdulkarim Soroush

Posted on November 4th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Religion and Modernity – One-day conference on the occasion of the Erasmus Prize 2004 for Sadik Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi and Abdulkarim Soroush

Thai Muslims Massacredï¿½What Lies Beneath?

Posted on October 31st, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Islam Online- News Section

CAIRO, October 28 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The latest confrontations in southern Thailand that culminated in the brutal death of over 80 Muslims in police custody have opened a new chapter of violence in the predominantly-Muslim region.

The War for Muslim Minds – Are the Jihadists losing the war? Gilles Kepel thinks so

Posted on October 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

UCLA International Institute :: Are the Jihadists Losing the War? Gilles Kepel Thinks So

“Despite car bombings, beheadings, and kidnappings, French scholar Gilles Kepel says the jihadists are losing their hold on the Muslim masses. A professor at l’Institut d’ï¿½tudes Politiques in Paris, Kepel visited UCLA September 30 to discuss his new book, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West (Harvard University Press, 2004). “Jihad in the 1990s failed,” Kepel declared, and the spectacular actions plotted by Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants have not turned that tide, no matter how shattering they have been. Kepel’s talk, in a conference room in Bunche Hall to an overflow crowd, was sponsored by the International Institute’s Center for Near Eastern Studies. It was chaired by political science professor Leonard Binder, a well-known Middle East scholar and acting director of the Near Eastern Center.”
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Non-White Admixture in the Dutch and Belgians

Posted on October 5th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

RACIAL REALITY BLOG: Non-White Admixture in the Dutch and Belgians

On Racial Reality: “This passage was transcribed from a small Dutch journal not available online. The word “significant” should be interpreted cautiously until we have some actual numbers, but it does suggest that Holland and Belgium may have levels of non-Caucasoid admixture comparable to, or even greater than, those of Portugal (which still wouldn’t be racially significant). This would come as no surprise since all three countries share similar colonial pasts.”

One of the comments says: “I knew there was reazon for german’s beauty”….

“Europa wird am Ende des Jahrhunderts islamisch sein”

Posted on September 30th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Much ado about the Bernard Lewis interview in Die Welt, also here the complete article.
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"Europa wird am Ende des Jahrhunderts islamisch sein"

Posted on September 30th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Research International.

Much ado about the Bernard Lewis interview in Die Welt, also here the complete article.
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Oraties / Koranreciet is een genot

Posted on September 10th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Trouw, religie & filosofie – Oraties / Koranreciet is een genot

Deze week kreeg Nederland er officieel drie islamdeskundige hoogleraren bij: Fred Leemhuis in Groningen, Gerard Wiegers en Abdulkader Tayob in Nijmegen. In hun oraties duiken ze in het verleden van de islam, maar hoe zien zij het heden?

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Protected: Oprah moet Allah redden

Posted on August 24th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Research International.

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Protected: Olivier Roy: Radicale moslims breken met traditie

Posted on August 21st, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Research International.

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Protected: Syriï¿½ / ‘Moslim democratie bedreigt ons allemaal’

Posted on August 20th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Research International.

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Protected: Syriï¿½ / 'Moslim democratie bedreigt ons allemaal'

Posted on August 20th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Research International.

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Protected: INTERVIEW. Professor Urbain Vermeulen over relatie islam en jodendom

Posted on August 7th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Research International.

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Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity

Posted on June 18th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

LookSmart’s FindArticles – English Historical Review: Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity – Review

Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity – Review by Janet Howarth on Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity, ed. Eileen Boris and Angelique Janssens (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 169. The book looks upon several controversies and the authors state that gender still matters.
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Civil Society and religion: retrospective reflections on Catholicism and prospective reflections on Islam

Posted on June 18th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Public Islam, Research International.

LookSmart’s FindArticles – Social Research: Civil society and religion: retrospective reflections on Catholicism and prospective reflections on Islam

Civil society and religion: retrospective reflections on Catholicism and prospective reflections on Islam. Casanove on the historical role of catholicism in the emerging democratization and on the incompatibility of islam and democracy. Jose Casanova is Associate Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Public Religions in the Modern World (1994) and he guest-edited the special issue of Sociology of Religion on “Religion and Global Civil Society” (60:3, Fall 2001).
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Holy Avengers – The rise of religious terrorists

Posted on June 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religion Other, Research International.

Van Zorge, Heffernan & Associates

Holy Avengers – The Rise of Religious Terrorists

A report on the question why do some people (in this case adherents of a religion) believe they have a moral mandate to murder by Jessica Stern. The report looks into the motives of christian anti-abortion activists, muslim suicide bombers. A feeling of humiliation, a “basket” of emotional, spiritual and financial rewards and manipulating people with an enticing mission are key elements.
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Islam on-line. Adapting to the digital age.

Posted on June 11th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Three Monkeys Islam on-line. Adapting to the digital age.

An interview on Three monkeys online with Gary Bunt, author of Virtually Islamic and of Islam in the Digital Age and webmaster of Virtually Islamic

Postmodernity goes to war

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

spiked-essays | Essay | Postmodernity goes to war

Essay1 June 2004

Postmodernity goes to war
by Philip Hammond

In 1991 the philosopher Jean Baudrillard offered a postmodernist assessment of the Gulf War – predicting that it would not take place, asking if it was ‘really’ taking place, and claiming that it ‘did not take place’ .

“If conservative commentators exaggerate the extent of postmodern intellectuals’ anti-Americanism, postmodernists are apt to overestimate the elite’s ‘universal absolutes’. The war on terrorism claims to be a war for Western values. On 5 March 2004, Blair argued that: ‘The best defence of our security lies in the spread of our values’, and that ‘we cannot advance these values except within a framework that recognises their universality’ (29). Yet it would be more accurate to say that it is a war fought over the crisis of Western values. In Foreign Affairs, the house journal of the US foreign policy establishment, even ardent Atlanticist Dominique Moï¿½si felt called upon to ask ‘Does “the West” still exist?’. As Moï¿½si observed, ‘Islamic fundamentalism, international terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have not had the same unifying effect as yesterday’s Soviet threat’.”
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The challenge of islam

Posted on June 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

Islam, in light of 9/11, is
theology journalï¿½s focus
By Jeff Robinson
Jun 8, 2004

In the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology an attempt to shed light on de ‘fundamental’ tenets of Islam, by examaning the so called key aspects of the faith from ‘jihad’ to “Isa’ (Jesus). My advice: do not read it as an account of the motivations of muslims but as a baptist view on islam that is scaringly close to that of the neo-fundamentalists in islam.
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