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news@nature.com – Islam and science, 2006

Posted on November 6th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News, Uncategorized.

news@nature.com – Islam and science, 2006
ISLAM AND SCIENCE

In many countries with large Muslim populations the pendulum of power is swinging away from secular (but mostly undemocratic) government back to where it was for many centuries: to Islamist regimes, and Islamic law. What does this mean for Muslim scientists and science? For a very long time, Muslim states have scored badly on measures of science and technology. Will things be any better or worse under the new Islamist governments? Visit the newsblog to read and post comments on Islam and science.

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Marokkanen in de diaspora: transnationalisme en geld

Posted on October 31st, 2006 by .
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Marokkanen sturen geld naar Marokko. Dat is niet echt nieuws. Dat ze ook geld sturen via de moskee wel. Elsevier pakt flink uit: Moskee maakt illegaal geld over naar Marokko. Laten we eerst maar eens even vast stellen dat Elsevier (in het artikel waar net naar verwezen is) kletst. In ieder geval als we het uiteindelijke van NFX erop naslaan. Op basis van het NFX rapport stelt Elsevier:

Marokkanen in Nederland maken via de moskee tussen de 5,5 en 8 miljoen euro per jaar over naar hun thuisland. Marokkanen brengen hun geld bij Nederlandse moskeeën waarna familie of vrienden het geld ophalen bij moskeeën in Marokko. De moskeeën rekenen later onderling af.

Toezicht
Door deze route onttrekt dat geldverkeer zich aan het toezicht van bijvoorbeeld De Nederlandsche Bank en de Autoriteit Financiële Markten. De benodigde vergunning ontbreekt bij de moskeeën. ‘Die mogen dus geen geld overmaken voor derden,’ aldus De Nederlandsche Bank in een reactie.

Misschien dat het illegaal is, maar dat kun je niet stellen op basis van het rapport (mijn curs.): (more…)

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VARA – De Leugen Regeert

Posted on September 22nd, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News, Uncategorized.

VARA – De Leugen Regeert
Een zeer goede column van Francisco van Jole over de vertekende werkelijkheid in de journalistiek in relatie tot de oorlog in Libanon en de commotie rondom de uitspraken van de paus en over een jongen die liever niet in de Gaykrant had willen staan in een artikel met als titel ‘ik ben homo’.

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The '9-11' hijack

Posted on September 11th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Uncategorized.

Well what to say about ‘9-11’? ‘9-11’ has changed the world in a tremendous way, although some of the changes might have started earlier already. Without ‘9-11’ in the Netherlands Pim Fortuyn’s message wouldn’t have been so powerful. In 1996 Pim Fortuyn released his book ‘Against the islamization of our culture’ in which he elaborated on the issues Bolkestein had addressed earlier. Bolkestein, political leader of the Dutch liberal party (VVD) stated in a lecture and an interview that Islam was incompatible with Western liberal values. He was the first politician to use the minority issue as a political strategy. The only party to have claimed that before him was the Centrumpartij, but they were a marginalized group. Bolkestein called for migrants to adjust to Dutch law and that the multicultural society had its limits because not all cultures were equal. His lecture, held in Luzern, provided an extensive analysis of NATO’s new strategy, where former NATO secretary-general Claes had stated earlier that according to him Islam was as dangerous as communism. Bolkestein was severely criticized for his statements, however this criticism related more to the way he said things than to the content of his message.
According to Muslims, including liberal Muslims, were against the separation of church and state, against equality of men and women, and the main threat for world peace from which he concluded that Islam was a backward culture. Two weeks before ‘9-11’ and the day after ‘9-11’ he pleaded for a ‘Cold War’ against Islam. Although Fortuyn’s discourse was not exclusively ‘Islam-topic’ – he had strong anti-establishment rhetoric as well – his message concerning Islam became the most visible. His popularity caused other politicians to firm up their language on and towards migrants. When he was killed on 6 May 2002 the whole country fell into shock and many people (Muslim and non-Muslim) openly expressed the hope that the perpetrator would not be a Muslim.

In May 2001 an imam from Rotterdam, Khalil El Moumni, spoke out on a Dutch TV-programme against homosexuality (in the context of acts of violence against homosexuals by young Moroccan boys) calling it a contagious disease. The debate that ensued concentrated on whether Dutch tolerance had gone too far in allowing such kinds of intolerant opinions to be publicly expressed. Opinions like El Moumni were considered to be the ultimate proof that the multicultural society was a “drama” and that the main culprit was Islam. That was the first time a traditional Moroccan imam spoke on TV and the question for many people was ‘how many Muslims share the same (clashing) values?’ and ‘what messages were these imams spreading in the mosques?’ Even though El Moumni’s views on homosexuality coincided with those of the Catholic Church nevertheless this nuance was lost in the ensuing debate. This was partly caused by the fact that the same TV programme did not air his full opinion against violence towards homosexuals. His selectively aired words added fuel to the fire of anger surrounding the relation between three fundamental rights: freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and the non-discrimination principle. He also became an example of the problematic relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims. Moreover, the fact that he had made these remarks only a few weeks after the passing of new legislation allowing homosexual marriages made it probably more painful. El Moumni had pointed at an issue that had involved a bitter struggle for several years and that seemed to have been finally resolved.
The attacks on 11 September 2001 were very rapidly considered as attacks on the West, on ‘us’, and on our Western values of democracy and freedom. The Dutch government first asked for thoughtfulness but then also stated that 9-11 was tantamount to a declaration of war. Sylvain Ephimenco (a Dutch writer) pointed to Islam as the fertile ground which produces terrorists; Leon de Winter (a Dutch writer) claimed that the West was in a state of war with Islam; and Frentrop (a Dutch journalist) pleaded for a ban on Islam. The Dutch filmmaker and columnist Van Gogh would declare later that 9-11 was an eye opener for him. One of the main questions raised in many of these reactions was how ‘ordinary’ Muslims related to these extremist Muslims. Several reactions (some intended, some unintended, some distorted) added fuel to the fire: Is Islam compatible with a democracy based on the separation of church and state as well as equal rights for men and women? Though several Muslim opinion leaders tried to contribute to the debate but the scope of their contributions remained limited because they were much divided and none could be considered as truly representative of the Muslim community. Moreover, their hesitation to combine a condemnation of the attacks in support of democracy, together with solidarity with the US, worsened the situation according to many people.

After Fortuyn’s death, Hirsi Ali together with several others became the leading Islam-critic voicing the concern that Islam, as a system, was incompatible with liberal Western culture. The criticism was partly caused by the fear that religion would become a leading factor in the public domain. She stated in the daily Trouw that prophet Mohammed would be considered a perverse man, a tyrant, according to our western standards of these days (she made that in reference to his (alleged) sexual intercourse with Aisha when she was nine). She also stressed her personal belief that Islam can be ‘ill’ used against women and she harshly criticized Islam. Sometimes she qualified her condemnation but the subtleties were lost or seen as irrelevant. Upon declaring her apostasy she started to receive death threats. The same was the case for Theo van Gogh.

Columnist and filmmaker Van Gogh called (radical) Muslims ‘goatfuckers’ and ‘fifth column’ and regularly insulted other groups as well in his daily column in the free daily Metro.  Together with Hirsi Ali he made the film Submission I in which they addressed the issue of abuse of women in the name of Islam. He was killed on 2 November 2004 by a Moroccan Dutch young man. This was, according to many people, the definite proof of the intolerance of Islam. The polarization between Muslims (as Muslims) and non-Muslims (as Dutch) increased in the aftermath of his murder, and which resulted, among other things, in the arson of a mosque, an Islamic school, churches and many similar attempts. In the public debate that followed two questions emerged: First, how large was this group of radical Muslims and how could it be controlled? Second, was there a limit to freedom of speech? Muslim organizations were called upon to speak out against this murder and to condemn violence. The fact that many young people on the Internet were more unambiguous in their condemnation became a cause for concern and a sign for many observers that Muslims should increase their capacity to endure criticism. For some politicians the time for dialogue with Muslims was over. The tension rose even more when the so-called Hofstadgroup was apprehended after a siege in The Hague. They were arrested and charged with conspiracy to murder several Dutch politicians such as Hirsi Ali, Cohen, and Aboutaleb, the mayor and an alderman from Amsterdam. Several other incidents such as the one with ‘youth-imam’ Abdul Jabber van de Ven (who publicly acknowledged that he would not mind that Wilders – a radical right wing politician – would die of cancer), the Tilburg imam Salam (who refused to shake hands with minister Verdonk), and the fact that two politicians (Hirsi Ali and Wilders) had to go into hiding, made the situation worse and strengthened the idea that Muslims were the fifth column.

Although the assassination of Van Gogh seems to have taken over the position as the most important landmark of relationships between Muslims and non-Muslims, ‘9-11’ remains important.

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The ‘9-11’ hijack

Posted on September 11th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Uncategorized.

Well what to say about ‘9-11’? ‘9-11’ has changed the world in a tremendous way, although some of the changes might have started earlier already. Without ‘9-11’ in the Netherlands Pim Fortuyn’s message wouldn’t have been so powerful. In 1996 Pim Fortuyn released his book ‘Against the islamization of our culture’ in which he elaborated on the issues Bolkestein had addressed earlier. Bolkestein, political leader of the Dutch liberal party (VVD) stated in a lecture and an interview that Islam was incompatible with Western liberal values. He was the first politician to use the minority issue as a political strategy. The only party to have claimed that before him was the Centrumpartij, but they were a marginalized group. Bolkestein called for migrants to adjust to Dutch law and that the multicultural society had its limits because not all cultures were equal. His lecture, held in Luzern, provided an extensive analysis of NATO’s new strategy, where former NATO secretary-general Claes had stated earlier that according to him Islam was as dangerous as communism. Bolkestein was severely criticized for his statements, however this criticism related more to the way he said things than to the content of his message.
According to Muslims, including liberal Muslims, were against the separation of church and state, against equality of men and women, and the main threat for world peace from which he concluded that Islam was a backward culture. Two weeks before ‘9-11’ and the day after ‘9-11’ he pleaded for a ‘Cold War’ against Islam. Although Fortuyn’s discourse was not exclusively ‘Islam-topic’ – he had strong anti-establishment rhetoric as well – his message concerning Islam became the most visible. His popularity caused other politicians to firm up their language on and towards migrants. When he was killed on 6 May 2002 the whole country fell into shock and many people (Muslim and non-Muslim) openly expressed the hope that the perpetrator would not be a Muslim.

In May 2001 an imam from Rotterdam, Khalil El Moumni, spoke out on a Dutch TV-programme against homosexuality (in the context of acts of violence against homosexuals by young Moroccan boys) calling it a contagious disease. The debate that ensued concentrated on whether Dutch tolerance had gone too far in allowing such kinds of intolerant opinions to be publicly expressed. Opinions like El Moumni were considered to be the ultimate proof that the multicultural society was a “drama” and that the main culprit was Islam. That was the first time a traditional Moroccan imam spoke on TV and the question for many people was ‘how many Muslims share the same (clashing) values?’ and ‘what messages were these imams spreading in the mosques?’ Even though El Moumni’s views on homosexuality coincided with those of the Catholic Church nevertheless this nuance was lost in the ensuing debate. This was partly caused by the fact that the same TV programme did not air his full opinion against violence towards homosexuals. His selectively aired words added fuel to the fire of anger surrounding the relation between three fundamental rights: freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and the non-discrimination principle. He also became an example of the problematic relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims. Moreover, the fact that he had made these remarks only a few weeks after the passing of new legislation allowing homosexual marriages made it probably more painful. El Moumni had pointed at an issue that had involved a bitter struggle for several years and that seemed to have been finally resolved.
The attacks on 11 September 2001 were very rapidly considered as attacks on the West, on ‘us’, and on our Western values of democracy and freedom. The Dutch government first asked for thoughtfulness but then also stated that 9-11 was tantamount to a declaration of war. Sylvain Ephimenco (a Dutch writer) pointed to Islam as the fertile ground which produces terrorists; Leon de Winter (a Dutch writer) claimed that the West was in a state of war with Islam; and Frentrop (a Dutch journalist) pleaded for a ban on Islam. The Dutch filmmaker and columnist Van Gogh would declare later that 9-11 was an eye opener for him. One of the main questions raised in many of these reactions was how ‘ordinary’ Muslims related to these extremist Muslims. Several reactions (some intended, some unintended, some distorted) added fuel to the fire: Is Islam compatible with a democracy based on the separation of church and state as well as equal rights for men and women? Though several Muslim opinion leaders tried to contribute to the debate but the scope of their contributions remained limited because they were much divided and none could be considered as truly representative of the Muslim community. Moreover, their hesitation to combine a condemnation of the attacks in support of democracy, together with solidarity with the US, worsened the situation according to many people.

After Fortuyn’s death, Hirsi Ali together with several others became the leading Islam-critic voicing the concern that Islam, as a system, was incompatible with liberal Western culture. The criticism was partly caused by the fear that religion would become a leading factor in the public domain. She stated in the daily Trouw that prophet Mohammed would be considered a perverse man, a tyrant, according to our western standards of these days (she made that in reference to his (alleged) sexual intercourse with Aisha when she was nine). She also stressed her personal belief that Islam can be ‘ill’ used against women and she harshly criticized Islam. Sometimes she qualified her condemnation but the subtleties were lost or seen as irrelevant. Upon declaring her apostasy she started to receive death threats. The same was the case for Theo van Gogh.

Columnist and filmmaker Van Gogh called (radical) Muslims ‘goatfuckers’ and ‘fifth column’ and regularly insulted other groups as well in his daily column in the free daily Metro.  Together with Hirsi Ali he made the film Submission I in which they addressed the issue of abuse of women in the name of Islam. He was killed on 2 November 2004 by a Moroccan Dutch young man. This was, according to many people, the definite proof of the intolerance of Islam. The polarization between Muslims (as Muslims) and non-Muslims (as Dutch) increased in the aftermath of his murder, and which resulted, among other things, in the arson of a mosque, an Islamic school, churches and many similar attempts. In the public debate that followed two questions emerged: First, how large was this group of radical Muslims and how could it be controlled? Second, was there a limit to freedom of speech? Muslim organizations were called upon to speak out against this murder and to condemn violence. The fact that many young people on the Internet were more unambiguous in their condemnation became a cause for concern and a sign for many observers that Muslims should increase their capacity to endure criticism. For some politicians the time for dialogue with Muslims was over. The tension rose even more when the so-called Hofstadgroup was apprehended after a siege in The Hague. They were arrested and charged with conspiracy to murder several Dutch politicians such as Hirsi Ali, Cohen, and Aboutaleb, the mayor and an alderman from Amsterdam. Several other incidents such as the one with ‘youth-imam’ Abdul Jabber van de Ven (who publicly acknowledged that he would not mind that Wilders – a radical right wing politician – would die of cancer), the Tilburg imam Salam (who refused to shake hands with minister Verdonk), and the fact that two politicians (Hirsi Ali and Wilders) had to go into hiding, made the situation worse and strengthened the idea that Muslims were the fifth column.

Although the assassination of Van Gogh seems to have taken over the position as the most important landmark of relationships between Muslims and non-Muslims, ‘9-11’ remains important.

(more…)

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C L O S E R – Close Reading

Posted on September 5th, 2006 by .
Categories: Uncategorized.

Zo tijd om eens iets nieuws op Closer te introduceren. Links, voor de kijkers thuis ook links, ziet u een nieuw side-bar genaamd Close Reading. Dit zijn artikelen die ik tegenkom op het WWW en die ik de moeite waard vind, maar waarvoor ik eigenlijk geen tijd heb om ze helemaal uit te leggen. Het hoeven overigens niet alleen mijn eigen vondsten te zijn. Wat mij betreft kan iedereen artikelen posten. Dit kan door een link naar mij te sturen maar ook via del.icio.us en dan simpelweg het artikel te ‘tag-gen’ voor mij. De artikelen die geplaatst kunnen worden, kunnen opinie-artikelen zijn, journalistieke verslagen, wetenschappelijke artikelen, artikelen van weblogs. Zolang ze maar enige relevantie voor dit blog hebben.
Verder is iedereen vrij om deze Close Reading over te nemen. Aangezien het een news-feed betreft kan dat vrij simpel.

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C L O S E R – Some disturbing and something to laugh

Posted on September 3rd, 2006 by .
Categories: Joy Category, Misc. News, Uncategorized.

There is some discussion in the blogosphere of an attempt in the Armed Forces Journal to redraw the map of the Middle East:

ARMED FORCES JOURNAL – Blood borders – June 2006
Blood borders
How a better Middle East would look
By Ralph Peters

International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war.

The Maps are to be found here (NOW) and here (AFTER). It is rather daring: even the Israelis are pushed behind the 1967-borders. What kind of ideas do these people have? Do they think the Middle East is a chess board? They want a new summit with Churchill, Stalin and Eisenhower? Probably for people like me, who are obsessed with structure and evolution rather than revolution, they have left one thing the same though. The situation of the Palestinians is still not resolved.

And because it is Sunday I try to give you something funny as well. Usually I go to the Onion.com and pick something there. Not necessary, today you are invited to The Observer.

Come fly with me – unless you’ve eaten all the pies, that is

Armando Iannucci
Sunday August 27, 2006
The Observer

An eyewitness writes:

We were coming back from our holidays in Spain and it was 3am when the flight was scheduled to depart, so we were all pretty tired, but I still had my wits about me. There were these two strange-looking men who came on the flight at the very last minute, and they were both clinically obese. That’s when me and all the other passengers told the cabin crew we weren’t happy and asked for them to be removed. I think we were right. One of them was so fat that he looked like he might explode at any minute.

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C L O S E R – Waarom bloggers hyperindividualistische narcisten zijn / deel 3

Posted on July 22nd, 2006 by .
Categories: Blogosphere, Uncategorized.

Uit de serie ‘Waarom bloggers hyperindividualistische narcisten zijn’ vandaag Deel 3: Bloggers Favorite Subject Me by Jason Lee Miller

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Times Online – Freedom fighters and Terror Groups

Posted on July 22nd, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News, Uncategorized.

British anger at terror celebration – World – Times Online
“It’s very important to make the distinction between terror groups and freedom fighters, and between terror action and legitimate military action,”

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Protected: Trouw, hetNieuws| europa – Deense journalist: Zelfcensuur is bewezen

Posted on July 11th, 2006 by martijn.
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Protected: Trouw, hetNieuws| europa – Deense journalist: Zelfcensuur is bewezen

Posted on July 11th, 2006 by martijn.
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Protected: AD.nl – Youssra ster in onderwijsfilmpjes

Posted on July 8th, 2006 by martijn.
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C L O S E R – The Miami Terrorists…

Posted on June 25th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religion Other, Religious and Political Radicalization, Uncategorized.

Several people in Miami have been arrested for alledgedly trying to attack Sears Tower. Quickly described as ‘muslims‘

Well, we’re told these seven arrests — most of them in Miami, one in Atlanta, people described as radical Muslims, a religious sect that identified with al Qaeda, although officials have said — one senior official told us they were not related to al Qaeda. And one, we’re told, had taken an oath to al Qaeda, but we don’t know exactly that that means. It might have been something quite informal. I suspect we’ll learn a little more about that today.

We have to be a little more carefull though, because the people arrested seem to belong to a called that isn’t Islamic, but more a syncretistic sect:

Batiste and his followers swore an oath of allegiance to Al-Qaeda and requested help from an undercover agent to buy weapons, explosives and uniforms, according to the indictment. He sought $50,000 to fund his mission and boasted that his attacks would be “as good or greater than 9/11”.

Batiste’s targets were said to have included the Miami FBI building as well as the Sears Tower, America’s tallest building. He was secretly recorded and filmed by the FBI, which infiltrated the group after a tip-off from a member of the public.

No weapons or explosives have been found at the windowless warehouse that Batiste called the “temple” in a rundown area of Miami.

Batiste grew up in Chicago and, as a young man, joined the Guardian Angels, a beret-wearing citizens’ crime prevention group. In 1994 he told his father, a former preacher, that he was “joining the Muslims” but his beliefs bear little relation to orthodox Islam.

A close friend said his teachings came from the Moorish Science Temple of America, an early 20th century religion founded by the Noble Drew Ali, a wandering African-American circus magician who claimed to have been raised by Cherokee Indians and to have learnt “high magic” in Egypt. Ali went on to style himself an “angel” and prophet of Allah.

The Seas of David borrows tenets from Judaism and Christianity as well as Islam and emphasises self-discipline through martial arts.

More information can be found on Unqualified Offerings: HERE, HERE and HERE. In the words of Crooked Timber: a conferaderacy of Dunces.

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Protected: C L O S E R – O.O. al I

Posted on June 24th, 2006 by .
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Protected: Brabants Dagblad – Oranje vlaggetjes aan moskee

Posted on June 10th, 2006 by martijn.
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Protected: de Volkskrant – ‘Radicaal, ik? Kennissen zouden zich rot lachen’

Posted on May 19th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates, Religious and Political Radicalization, Uncategorized.

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Protected: nu.nl/algemeen | Balkenende: islam geen gevaar

Posted on April 7th, 2006 by martijn.
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Protected: nu.nl/algemeen | Balkenende: islam geen gevaar

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C L O S E R

Posted on March 28th, 2006 by .
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C L O S E R

Er was iemand die een opmerking ingestuurd had over trouwen, ‘islamitisch’ trouwen, zou je dat nog eens willen doen (via email mag ook), want ik heb het per ongeluk gewist met alle spam-berichten.

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Open brief van Okay Pala aan de groep Wilders

Posted on February 7th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News, Uncategorized.

De organisatie Hizb ut Tahrir heeft een pamflet verspreid in Amsterdam Geuzenveld (zoals gebruikelijk daar of in Bos en Lommer) in een reactie op het plaatsen van de Deense spotprenten door Geert Wilders op zijn site. De bewuste brief vindt u hieronder.
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Spoort dit?

Posted on October 13th, 2005 by .
Categories: Misc. News, Uncategorized.

Als je in de trein zit, hoor je nog eens wat. Zo zat ik tegenover twee vrouwen die bij een niet nader te noemen bedrijf werken. Van belang is te weten dat het om een commerciele instantie gaat, waarbij contacten met klanten en representativiteit van de medewerkers zeer belangrijk gevonden worden.

Goed, er was daar dus een sollicitatieprocedure. Twee kandidaten blijven over. Een man en een vrouw. Eén van hen had alle kwalificaties en zeer veel ervaring op hetzelfde werkterrein: de vrouw. De vrouw had echter één probleem. Zij was te dik. Nou ja dik, zei de vrouw in de trein, ze was wat mollig maar niet dik. Maar goed dus je moet toch representatief zijn naar de klanten toe, vond ze. Die vrouw had beter kunnen solliciteren bij concurrent X; daar werken allemaal van die kneusjes. Ja zegt ze, als je ze meewerkt met zo’n sollicitatieprocedure, dan selecteer je toch mensen die een beetje op je lijken (de één was blond, redelijk slank en mooi gekleed, de ander zwart haar, slank of zelfs mager en netjes gekleed).

Opvallend is dat de man die wel aangenomen werd, wel als zeer dik omschreven werd. Maar ja, ‘hij komt zo gezellig over, dat is ook belangrijk voor een stukje klantcontact’.

In de Elsevier stond enige tijd geleden een stukje over dikke mensen als paria, maar er zit schijnbaar ook nog een gender component bij.

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Protected: NRC Handelsblad – OVSE-ambassadeur Orhun: Dubbel paspoort moet kunnen

Posted on May 19th, 2005 by martijn.
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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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Mak in het ‘Land van Ooit’

Posted on May 15th, 2005 by .
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:
(more…)

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Protected: Niet voor Lonsdalers

Posted on March 31st, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Uncategorized.

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