There is a group of people in Europe, mainly in Germany but now also active in The Netherlands that is called 'Pegida', which stands for 'Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of The West (Des Abenlandes, in German). Their discourse is super racist and discriminatory. Anyone involved with that group and the like is utterly insane …
A new road trip and finding family (after 24 years!)
The brilliant and magical Sunday morning I wrote about couldn't end better! Do you know those days? When there is a nice flow and energy that this flow continues throughout the whole day? That you meet unexpected things or that you are in unexpected situations you always will remember? Such a day was this Sunday.
Islam+Muslims+Multicultural society+Democracy+Peace=Malaysia
Malaysia is an Islam/Muslim dominant country, which also has a multicultural society, has a democracy, and that we are living peacefully with each other. I would like to speak up against the rising Islamophobia in the West by giving my input in the debate in a positive way from my own experience trying to give …
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“US Visa applicants to be asked for social media history” – Say What?!?!
The USA is going to ask for 5 years of social media accounts and usernames with a visa application. Read more
Dutch’s Refugee Debate
The other day a friend read this article of The Telegraph "Refugees could be fined or lose residency for failing to uphold Dutch values", written by Senay Boztas on the 28th of November, retrieved the 29th of November 2015. On facebook she tagged be and asked what my opinion about it is and this is my …
Pentagonism
Pentagonism makes suddenly 100% sense. In the book of Juan Bosch, Pentagonism: A Substitute for Imperialism, former President of the Dominican Republic, he is describing how it is working and the relation with colonialism and imperialism. In pentagonism all is revolving around war and weapons. The science has been done, the weapons are produced and …
How FoxNews spreads fear and is misleading
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo events a lot of information and news is created to ‘inform’ us how bad the situation is, how big of a thread Muslims are and how ‘we’ are victims and that we have to stand up and protect what we have been building and that this is something …
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The Anger of Europe’s Young and Marginalized Muslims
The Anger of Europe's Young and Marginalized Muslims - From Teenage Angst to Jihad, by Abdelkader Benali Recently I read this opinion article on the New York Times, published January 13. It't written by a Dutch young man who nails it very well. I enjoyed reading this article and get a better understanding on how a …
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IS seen from a western journalist
In the last half of 2014, Jurgen Todenhofer went to the “Caliphate” of IS, which is in Iraq. He is the first western journalist who got permission from the IS to visit the Islamic State, to see what it is, how they are organized, to discuss and to find out what they really want. Todenhofer …