Sappho & Trykkefrihedsselskabet – artikler og arrangementer

Carsten Niebuhr – islamapologiens danske grundlægger

29. februar 2012 – artikel af Ulla Nørtoft Thomsen

1700-tallets danske arabist Carsten Niebuhr er en berømmet pionér inden for sit felt og har lagt navn til et helt institut. Ulla Nørtoft Thomsen har genlæst hans lovpriste beskrivelse fra Arabien, og hun er ikke imponeret. Hendes vurdering repræsenterer en radikalt ny måde at betragte det berømte værk på: Niebuhrs skildring er et videnskabeligt misfoster, en politisk tåbelighed og en psykologisk gåde. Læs hendes opgør med Niebuhrs ikonstatus.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Sappho-prisen 2012 til Olga Romanova

1. marts 2012

Den russiske dissident, Olga Romanova [...] modtager Sappho-prisen d. 31. marts; Ruslands-kender og redaktør på Weekendavisen, Anna Libak [...], motiverer den.

Prisoverrækkelsen finder sted lørdag, d. 31. marts kl. 15:30 i forlængelse af Trykkefrihedsselskabets generalforsamling.

Mere HER hos Trykkefrihedsselskabet.

Sam Solomon – shariatilhængeren, der blev kristen forkynder

02. marts 2012 – klumme af Katrine Winkel Holm

Katrine Winkel Holm om den farverige eks-muslim Sam Solomon, der senere på måneden kommer til Danmark.

Mere HER i Sappho. Man kan tilmelde sig arrangementet hos Islamkritisk Netværk i Folkekirken HER.

Desuden link til denne uges sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels og Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto:

• Sharia-toppen
• Udkigsposten

Video: Hans Rosling i Tivoli Congress Center

Det meste er hørt før, men verden har brug for Rosling, så vi snupper lige denne video også. Fra Skagen Fondenes Nytårskonference 12. januar 2012:

SKAGEN – Hans Rosling: “Poor to Rich – in the G20World” – SKAGEN Funds’ New Year Conference 2012

Hans Rosling was speaker at the SKAGEN Funds’ New Year’s Conference 2012 – “Poor to Rich – in the G20World”. He is a Swedish Professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute. He co-founded the Gapminder Foundation which promotes a fact-based world view by converting international statistics into moving, interactive graphics. Using animations of global trends Hans Rosling lectures about past and contemporary economic, social and environmental changes in the world. In 1993 he was one of the initiators of Médecins Sans Frontières in Sweden.

Taslima Nasrin om Bangladesh

Ikke et land, der imponerer nogen:

Taslima Nasrin: Fleeing from a totalitarian and corrupt regime

by Giulia Mazza – January 17, 2012

The famous writer tells AsiaNews about her exile from Bangladesh, the country “nominally democratic country, but which in reality is only a corrupt government.” Following the pubblication of her novel Lajja (Shame), Taslima had to flee the state in 1994 because of Islamist death threats. All her books are banned in her homeland.

“Bangladesh is a totalitarian regime with a corrupt government. There is nothing democratic about, it is only a pretense it presents to the world”, Taslima Nasrin, the well known Bangladeshi writer, does not mince his words speaking to AsiaNews. For 17 years she has been exiled from Bangladesh and her family, after she was forced to flee in 1994 because of death threats from an Islamic fundamentalist group. Taslima, originally a Muslim but now a self-declared atheist, wrote Lajja (Shame), in 1993 a novel that tells the story of a Hindu family persecuted by Muslims. Billed as blasphemous, by the Bangladeshi government of the era (the Bangladesh Nationalist Party of Khaleda Zia, now in opposition), it was banned together with the other author’s books. Islamic fundamentalists launched a fatwa (ruling) against Taslima, accusing her of blasphemy and calling for her death by hanging. Having already abandoned the practice of medicine in 1994 she left Bangladesh to live in India, where she also received death threats.

Mere HER hos Asia News. Kan også læses her hos Spero News.

Bangladesh: Rektor arresteret for besiddelse af Taslima Nasrins bog

Eller rettere sagt: den forbudte bog, Lajja, er blevet fundet på universitetes bibliotek -

Opdatering – AsiaNews har indhentet kommentarer fra Nasrin:

Teacher arrested for having a copy of a book by Taslima Nasrin

January 5, 2012

Police found a copy of Lajja (Shame), in the school library. The famous novel banned since 1993 for “blasphemy”. Forced to flee death threats since 1994, the author comments: “This arrest proves that Bangladesh is not a democracy but a totalitarian regime.”

Mere HER hos AsiaNews.

Bangladesh teacher arrested over banned book

Jan. 04 2012 | The Associated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Police have arrested the head teacher at a college in southern Bangladesh after a book considered blasphemous by some Muslims was found in the school’s library, an official said Wednesday.

Police officer Abdul Malek said S.M. Yunus Ali was arrested for possessing the novel “Lajja,” or “Shame,” written by exiled writer Taslima Nasrin.

Malek said Ali, head teacher at the K.C. Technical and Business Management College, could face up to three years in jail if he is found guilty of authorizing the book’s inclusion in the library.

Mere HER hos CP24. Kan også læses her hos Stuff.

Andre kilder: Winnipeg Free Press, Metro, AFP,

Video: Nina Shea & Paul Marshall hos The Heritage Foundation

Fra 9. november 2011 - solidt arbejde af Shea & Marshall:

Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide

The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie awakened many westerners to the danger of being charged with blasphemy in the Muslim world. Charges of “blasphemy,” “apostasy,” and “insulting Islam” are increasingly used by authoritarian governments and extremist forces within key Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to acquire and consolidate power. These codes have proved effective in intimidating not only converts and heterodox groups, but also political and religious reformers.

In their newly released book, Silenced (Oxford University Press, 2011), Paul Marshall and Nina Shea provide the first survey of such accusations in the contemporary Muslim world, in international organizations, and in the West. These charges traditionally carry a punishment of death but are contested within Islam today, as described by the late Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid in the foreword to Silenced. Nevertheless, as Marshall and Shea describe, hundreds of victims, including political dissidents, religious reformers, journalists, writers, artists, movie makers, and religious minorities in many countries. They also document the political effects in Muslim societies of blasphemy and apostasy laws, as well as non-governmental fatwas and vigilante violence. And they examine in the West the move toward importing new blasphemy standards through bans on purported hate speech and Islamophobia, aggressively promoted by the OIC, and the increasing threat of violence to stifle commentary on Islam even in the absence of law.

Video: Interview & forelæsning med Bernard-Henri Lévy

Forelæsningen nederst efterlader seeren fuldstændigt stum af forbløffelse. Hvordan kan man være så naiv? Først et interview, hvori Lévy fortæller om lidt af hvert - fra SHOWstudio den 16. december 2011:

SHOWstudio: In Your Face: Interviews – Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and journalist, the founder of New Philosophers school, discusses his approach to philosophy and politics in the second interview of the In Your Face series – a twist on the coaxing, cajoling tradition of interviewing prevalent in art and fashion journalism, our ‘In Your Face’ interview series pits interviewer against interviewee in a collection of confrontational conversations. With subjects drawn from the worlds of art, fashion and celebrity this series pushes the boundaries of a typical face-to-face interview into a one-on-one face off.

Og dagdrømme om Libyen:

Talk: Bernard-Henri Lévy on the Libyan intervention and universal values – IQ2 talks

This talk took place at the Royal Geographical Society on 13th December 2011.

Event info:

Bernard-Henri Lévy

He was in Libya six times during the uprising. He was on the frontlines and amongst the very first foreigners to enter Tripoli the day after it was liberated. He took the rebel military commanders three times to meet Nicolas Sarkozy. He was with Sarkozy and Cameron in Benghazi and Tripoli and witnessed the curious nature of their relationship.

Bernard-Henri Lévy is France’s best-known public intellectual, passionately committed to the causes he believes to be just. In this rare appearance in London for Intelligence Squared BHL will be lecturing on liberal interventionism, the race for the US presidency, French politics, the crisis in Europe and what he really thinks about Cameron and Sarkozy.

Questions: Bernard-Henri Lévy on the Libyan intervention and universal values – IQ2 talks

Desuden en artikel om økonomi:

Downgrade Moody’s!

Bernard-Henri Lévy – Dec 14, 2011

Ratings agencies, with the careless batting of an eye, can bring down entire economies. Yet their decisions are veiled in mystery and cheapened by conflicts of interest.

These rating agencies, these institutes whose triple-As make the planet of finance quake and the real planet tremble, these oracles, these modern gods didn’t see the 1997 crisis coming. They understood nothing of the subprime catastrophe.  Four days before it went bankrupt, in 2001, they continued to give the energy broker Enron good marks. Up to the very last moment, they supported a Lehman Brothers that was circling the drain of bankruptcy. During the current euro-zone crisis, not content to have failed to see it coming, they aggravated the situation by keeping Greek securities in the basket of first class world bonds and, in so doing, contributed to the laxness of a government that preferred to sink deeper in debt rather than to review its accounts, clean up its public finances, and reform. In short, these agencies whose task it is to foresee have committed blunder after blunder. These agencies of credit have behaved like agencies of discredit. And the dictatorship they impose upon the markets stands back to back with faults, defaults, and an abuse of authority that might tempt one to laugh were the consequences not tragic.

Mere HER i The Daily Beast.

Video: Jacob Mchangama, Naser Khader, Bruce Bawer, Mark Durie, Nina Shea og flere

Fra The Federalist Society den 4. november 2011 – Naser Khader skal for øvrigt arbejde for Hudson Institute, skriver The Copenhagen Post. Nå, video:

Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide

• Paul Marshall, Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute
• Nina Shea, Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute
• Jonathan Bunch, Vice President & Director of State Courts, The Federalist Society

The Muslim World

• Prof. David F. Forte, Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall School of Law
• Amjad Mahmood Khan, Attorney and National Director of Public Affairs, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA
• Jacob Mchangama, Director of Legal Affairs, Center for Political Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Samuel Tadros, Research Fellow, Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom
• James P. Kelly III, Director of International Affairs, The Federalist Society

Growing Repression in the West

• Bruce Bawer, Best-Selling Author of While Europe Slept
• Paul Diamond, United Kingdom defense attorney in hate speech cases
• Mark Durie, Vicar, St. Mary’s Anglican Church (Melbourne, Australia)

Where Are the Muslim Moderates?

• Manda Zand Ervin, Founder & President, Alliance of Iranian Women and Member, American Islamic Leadership Coalition
• Naser Khader, former Member, Danish Parliament
• David B. Rivkin, Jr., Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP

Bruce Bawer om Norge, Spanien, USA og islam

Bawer er flittig for tiden. Hvor er det bare godt at se:

Deadly ‘Diversity’

by Bruce Bawer on Nov 29th, 2011

The neighborhood of Grønland in Oslo, Norway, is not terribly large.  It’s on the east side of town, adjacent to central Oslo, and has traditionally been a place of working-class flats and unpretentious pubs.  Ever since Norway began to be the destination of immigrants from the Muslim world, however, Grønland has been home to an increasing number of Muslim families and businesses.  In recent years, furthermore, it has become an attractive residential area for young Norwegian singles and families, for many of whom part of the lure of living in this part of town was that they wanted to be part of a “multicultural” community.  As a result of the influx of these these young people – including no small number of gays – a number of hip restaurants and cafes have sprung up in the area.

Of late, however, as the city’s Muslim population has boomed, Grønland has been undergoing a transition from a mixed neighborhood to an essentially Muslim one.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos AINA.

The Reign in Spain

by Bruce Bawer and Antonio Golmar on Nov 30th, 2011

On November 20, the 36th anniversary of Francisco Franco​’s death, the Spanish people – as has been the case ever since the first democratic elections following the Generalissimo’s death – turned out to the polls in huge numbers.  This time around they ousted PSOE, the Socialist Workers’ Party, after almost eight years of rule under Prime Minister Rodríguez Zapatéro.

Indeed the PSOE loss amounted to a near collapse. PP received 45% of the vote, its best result ever, and won an 11-seat majority in Congress and over 60% of the Senate. By contrast, PSOE plummeted from 44% to 29% of the vote, losing almost half of its Senate seats.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Facing the Truth About Islam

by Bruce Bawer on Nov 18th, 2011

A few years back I was invited to give the keynote address at a one-day conference in Washington – or, actually, in Arlington – about the future of Europe.  I am still baffled as to why I was invited.  Pretty much all the other people there – the audience members as well as the conference speakers – were seasoned diplomats and sundry high-level government types, some of them Americans, the rest from various European countries.  And all of them painted a rosy picture of Europe’s prospects.  The European Union, most of them agreed, was just about the best thing ever to happen to the old continent – a guarantor of peace and prosperity for generations to come.  The one or two passing mentions of Islam and immigration were also positive – thanks to the massive influx of “new Europeans” from the Muslim world, these experts assured us, Europe’s demographic decline wouldn’t really be much of a problem.  Several participants expressed the desire that the tired, backward old USA could become more like the progressive, forward-looking EU.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos AINA. Se også denne i FrontPageMagazine:

• The Self-Destructive Insanity of Pro-Palestinian Gay Activists

Video: Taslima Nasrin om det arabiske forår

Islamists may hijack Arab Spring – Taslima Nasrin – November 23, 2011

With four fatwas against her and a bounty offered for her head, the former Sakharov Prize winner and Bangladeshi women’s rights activist pledges to fight on. From EuroparlTV.

Og igen: Der er ingen overbefolkning

Det kan ikke siges for tit. Overbefolkning er ikke et problem. En nation skal have bæredygtighed, hvad folketallet anbelanger. Arbejdskraftens reproduktion. Et stabilt fødselstal hos landets oprindelige befolkning må være målet – ungefær 2,1 barn per kvinde for Danmarks vedkommende:

Five Myths About the World’s Population

By Nicholas Eberstadt | November 6, 2011

1. The world is overpopulated.

Sure, 7 billion is a big number. But most serious demographers, economists and population specialists rarely use the term “overpopulation” — because there is no clear demographic definition.

For instance, is Haiti, with an annual population growth rate of 1.3 percent, overpopulated? If it is, then was the United States overpopulated in 1790, when the new country was growing at more than 3 percent per year? And if population density is the correct yardstick, then Monaco, with more than 16,000 people per square kilometer, has a far greater problem than, say, Bangladesh and its 1,000 people per square kilometer.

Back in the 1970s, some scholars tried to estimate the “optimum population” for particular countries, but most gave up. There were too many uncertainties (how much food would the world produce with future technologies?) and too many value judgments (how much parkland is ideal?).

Mere HER hos AEI eller her i The Washington Post.

Andre kilder: djøf-bladet,

Desmond Tutu siger noget fornuftigt

Og det er endda sket flere gange på det seneste, at den 80-årige Nobelpris-tager, Desmond Tutu, fra Sydafrika har gjort sig heldigt bemærket:

• Tutu vil bekæmpe børneægteskaber
• Tutu har fordømt Iran for behandligen af bahaier, der nægtes adgang til højere uddannelse. Lærere med bahai-tro arresteres, hvis de underviser
• Tutu har fordømt Sydafrikas regering for at nægte Dalai Lama visum
• Tutu har fordømt Irans regering for dødsdommen over præsten, Yusef Nadarkhani, der anklages for apostasi

Tutu describes ‘passion’ to stop child marriage

September 21, 2011

Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Wednesday he is as passionate about fighting the widespread practice of child marriage as he was when he helped bring down apartheid in South Africa.

“My passion (that) now I hope to translate, transfer to this, is the same passion, commitment that I had when I was fighting, we were fighting, against apartheid,” Tutu told a conference in New York, where activists spoke out against the estimated 10 million marriages of underage girls around the world each year.

Mere HER i The Vacouver Sun. Kan også ses hos AFP Google Hosted her. Lidt kortere version her i The New Age.

Iran’s War Against Knowledge — An Open Letter to the International Academic Community

Desmond Tutu and José Ramos-Horta – September 25, 2011

The forward progress of humankind in the last centuries has been fueled, more than any other factor, by increasing access to information, more rapid exchange of ideas, and in most parts of the world, universal education.

Freedom of education and freedom of information are integral to freedom of thought. Few advances have been made for humankind which were not preceded by new ways of looking at our world and new schools of thought.

Mere HER i Huffington Post. Det er anden gang inden for to år, at Sydafrika har nægtet Dalai Lama visum, skriver Foreign Policy:

South Africa: Tutu blasts ANC over Dalai Lama visa

By Donna Bryson – Oct. 4, 2011

Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid hero often described as South Africa’s conscience, slammed the ANC-led government Tuesday as “disgraceful” and said it is worse than the country’s former oppressive white regime for not issuing a visa to the Dalai Lama.

The African National Congress responded by calling Tutu’s comparisons to the apartheid regime and to toppled Arab dictatorships “very unfortunate and totally misplaced,” and said the government should be given time to explain its actions.

Mere HER i The Statesman. Global News her. MSNBC her.

Apostasy – Tutu asks Iran to free pastor

October 9, 2011

Cape Town – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on Sunday called on Iran to free a pastor who faces the death penalty for refusing to give up Christianity and return to Islam.

“I would like to appeal to the Iranian authorities to free Yusef Nadarkhani, and allow him and all other members of minority religions in Iran to worship God,” Tutu said in a statement.

“Forcing anybody to renounce his or her faith is an utter violation of our universal human and religious values, and a renunciation of God,” Tutu said.

Mere HER hos News24. Den næste artikel er en påmindelse om, at Tutu ikke altid er så heldig med sine udtalelser:

Arch-enemies: What’s not to like about Desmond Tutu?

Katharine Child – Oct 07 2011

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who turned 80 on Friday, has been awarded the Nobel peace prize, led South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and even donated DNA to the Human Genome Project.

But as with any leader, he has earned himself his fair share of critics along the way.

The ANC government, for example, has often found itself squirming under the glare of his criticism — President Jacob Zuma’s administration, currently the subject of Tutu’s wrath for delaying the issuing of an entry visa to the Dalai Lam until it was too late for the Tibetan spiritual leader to attend the cleric’s birthday celebrations, is not the first: Run-ins with Zuma’s predecessor, former president Thabo Mbeki, were not unknown.

Mere HER hos Mail & Guardian Online. Kan også læses her hos Afrika.no.

Andre kilder: Christian Today, Christian Today, Times Live, Slate, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, BBC, BBC, Sky News, CNS News, Daily News, Dallas Voice, San Antonio, Payvand, DR, Berlingske Tidende,

Mere om Taslima Nasrin vs. Salman Rushdie

The Times of India har et interview med Taslima Nasrin efter twitterkrigen imod Salman Rushdie:

Male writers are like God: Taslima Nasreen

Vinita Chaturvedi | Sep 24, 2011

As a storm is created over her tweets about Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasreen talks about ‘fragile male egos’ in an exclusive rendezvous with us.

When Taslima Nasreen tweeted about Salman Rushdie’s debut overdrive on Twitter, she wouldn’t have imagined in her wildest dreams that her comments would make headlines. What started after that was hate messages flying fast and furious against Taslima on social networking sites. Taslima voices her anguish about “the existing prejudices and male chauvinism” in a chat with us.

Mere HER i The Times of India. Tidligere blogget om samme sag:

• Salman Rushdie og Taslima Nasrin fører krig på Twitter

Opdatering 31. oktober 2011 – Nasrin ude med mere nødvendig provokation:

Through her twitter account, Taslima said that a Muslim Woman should have sex with 72 men. “Muslim women deserve to have sex with 72 virgin men on the earth as they won’t get these things in heaven.”

She further wrote: “Men start suffering from erectile dysfunction in their 30′s. But their machismo remains alive until their last day.”

Mere HER hos Samay Live.

Salman Rushdie og Taslima Nasrin fører krig på Twitter

Salman Rushdie spars with Taslima Nasreen on Twitter

Javed Anwer | Sep 22, 2011,

Days after he joined Twitter saying he was now in the “madhouse”, author Salman Rushdie may be realizing that the social media site can be just that.

On Wednesday, Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen got into a micro-blogging spat, with the Bangladeshi writer accusing him of “begging” for followers and chasing women.

“Salman Rushdie is begging everyone to follow him on Twitter. He’ll feel embarrassed if he doesn’t get a million followers,” she tweeted, adding, “Be aware of Salman Rushdie! He wants to get girls in his ‘whipped cream range’.”

Mere HER i Times of India. Opdatering – se eventuelt også denne kommentar i samme avis:

• What is Taslima’s problem?

Andre kilder: News Bullet, OneIndia News, The New York Observer,

Mere om Englands implosion

Det er en deprimerende samling artikler:

Most migrants on a marriage visa have never visited the UK before

• Of 40,000 immigrants, two-thirds had never previously set foot in the country
• Issue ‘has been ignored for too long’, says minister

By Jack Doyle on 15th September 2011

Two-thirds of immigrants who come to Britain on a marriage visa have never before set foot in this country, it has emerged.

Every year some 40,000 migrants enter the country either to marry or to join an existing spouse – bringing with them another 9,000 children and other dependants.

An examination of Home Office files from 2009 revealed 67 per cent were coming here for the first time.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Immigrants have children for benefits, says Asian peer

14 September 2011

The UK’s first female Asian peer has used a debate in the Lords to criticise Pakistani and Bangladeshi families for having too many children.

Baroness Flather suggested people in some minority communities had a large number of children in order to be able to claim more benefits.

The peer, born in Lahore before the partition of India, said the issue did not apply to families of Indian origin.

Mere HER hos BBC.

Soft sentencing blamed for riot rampage as it is revealed two thirds had criminal past

By Jack Doyle on 16th September 2011

Soft sentencing was last night blamed for allowing hardened criminals to go on the rampage during last month’s riots.

Official figures showed two thirds of rioters with criminal histories have never tasted prison.

That is despite rioters having amassed more than previous 16,000 offences between them – an average of 15 each

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Britain’s navel-gazing politicians fail to see that they are locked in a battle for civilisation

By Melanie Phillips on 18th September 2011

The world may currently be convulsed by escalating cataclysms, but for British politicians the order of the day is navel gazing as usual.

The EU is about to implode, the UK economy is going under, urban youth in British cities have just burned down their neighbourhoods and the Arab world is in ferment.

And so what are the big talking points of the day in Britain? Gay marriage, bashing the rich and (a few days ago) cutting the length of the school holidays.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Video: Hans Rosling – mind the gab!

Fra maj 2011:

Gap in Understanding – Hans Rosling at European Zeitgeist 2011

Hans Rosling explores the demographics of the world, from taxation to population statistics. He highlights the world population broken down by year to prove his point that the countries with the highest number of youth are in the Middle East.

Fra 8. september 2011:

Hans Rosling ‘Epidemiology for the bottom billion’ – Pumphandle lecture 2011

The number of births in the world stopped growing 20 years ago.
Hans Rosling

Raymond Ibrahim om muslimsk ekstremisme og muslimsk forfølgelse af kristne

Raymond Ibrahim med status over muslimsk forfølgelse af kristne – for august måned:

Muslim Persecution of Christians: August, 2011

by Raymond Ibrahim – September 7, 2011

This series was developed in order to collate some—by no means all—of the foulest instances of Muslim persecution of Christians that surface each month. It serves two purposes:

1.Intrinsically, to document that which the mainstream media does not: habitual, if not chronic, Muslim persecution of Christians.
2.Instrumentally, to show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is ultimately rooted in a Sharia inspired worldview.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Hudson New York. Family Security Matters her.

“Muslim Radicalization”: In the Eyes of the Beholder

by Raymond Ibrahim – September 1, 2011

Because the phrase “Muslim radicalization” has become increasingly popular in American discourse, it behooves us to establish once and for all what it means. Without an agreed upon definition, it may be that we are each talking about different things—or worse and more likely, nothing at all.

Most dictionaries define “radicalization” and “radicalize” as “to make radical.” The word “radical”—especially in a socio-political context—means “extreme,” “fundamental”; as a noun it means “a person who holds or follows strong convictions or extreme principles; extremist.”

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch.

Interview med Taslima Nasrin

Introduktionen i artiklen er ikke den samme som i den ledsagende mp3. Audioen er bedre. Men selve interviewet er identisk - audio her:

“Bangladesh government should be ashamed” – Taslima Nasrin

by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury- August 29, 2011

Taslima Nasrin, an award-wining writer and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwa calling for her death. Not many have risked their life to tell the truth.In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasrin’s fiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Mere HER i Weekly Blitz.

Opdatering 6. september 2011 – WikiLeaks har offentliggjort indhold fra notater af en amerikansk ambassadør i Indien:

Taslima: US envoy condemns all parties

Pallavi Shahi – New Delhi | 4th Sep 

The CPI(M) is “hypocritical and authoritarian” over controversial author Taslima Nasreen, the BJP is “opportunistic and exploitative” and the Congress is “neither secular nor courageous”, said the then US ambassador to India, David Mulford in a cable commenting on the three parties’ handling of the Nasreen crisis in 2007, when she was forced to flee Kolkata. In a 28 November 2007 cable released by WikiLeaks, the ambassador scathingly comments, “India’s main political parties could not care less about Nasreen or her writing beyond how their parties’ reactions to events play to voters”.

Mere HER i The Sunday Guardian.

Opdatering 22. september 2011 – lille nyt interview:

If Mamata allows, would love to return to Kolkata: Taslima

Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen feels “Peace is far away” and claims that she is a victim of religious, political and social ‘fatwas’.

“Unfortunately, settlement is not for me. Banning, censorship continues. Not only religious fatwas, I became an unfortunate victim of political and social fatwas. Life is not easy and peace is far away,” 49-year-old Nasreen, who has been living in Delhi since June, said.

Mere HER i Indian Express.

Omskæring i Irak

Barbarene skærer stadig små børns kønsorganer helt eller delvist af:

Female Genital Mutilation “An Obligation” According to Iraqi Muslim Cleric

by Irfan Al-Alawi – August 18, 2011

In June, the parliament of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) adopted a ban on domestic violence, including female genital mutilation (FGM), a “procedure” that is widespread among Iraqi Kurds. The law will come into effect once it is signed by KRG president Mesud Barzani, who represents the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

But a local cleric, Ismail Sussai, in the major Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil, has delivered a televised sermon in which he described FGM as “obligatory,” called on fathers to kill themselves, on pain of losing their “honor,” if they are legally prevented from abusing their daughters for using mobile phones; and he defended the beating of wives and children.

Mere HER i Hudson New York.

Video: Taslima Nasrin i Oslo 2011

Fra Oslo den 12. til 14. august 2011. Så vidt jeg kan høre, er det næsten samme tale som Taslima Nasreen plejer at holde, men den er nu også værd at lytte til:

World Humanist Congress Taslima Nasrin

Andre Kilder: International Humanist and Ethical Union,

Indien er træt af muslimsk terrorisme

Subramanian Swamy går til den her. De kristne får også lige et hug:

Analysis: How to wipe out Islamic terror

By Subramanian Swamy | Jul 16, 2011

The terrorist blast in Mumbai on July 13, 2011, requires decisive soul-searching by the Hindus of India. Hindus cannot accept to be killed in this halal fashion, continuously bleeding every day till the nation finally collapses. Terrorism I define here as the illegal use of force to overawe the civilian population to make it do or not do an act against its will and well-being.

Islamic terrorism is India’s number one problem of national security. About this there will be no doubt after 2012. By that year, I expect a Taliban takeover in Pakistan and the Americans to flee Afghanistan. Then, Islam will confront Hinduism to “complete unfinished business”. Already the successor to Osama bin Laden as al-Qaeda leader has declared that India is the priority target for that terrorist organisation and not the USA.

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Harvard Instructor May Face Removal Over Anti-Muslim Op-Ed

Ujala Sehgal – Jul 30, 2011

Subramanian Swamy, a Harvard Summer School economics instructor and a political leader in India, wrote an op-ed called “How to Wipe Out Islamic Terror” for the Indian newspaper Daily News and Analysis on July 16, in response to the July 13th Mumbai bombings that killed 23 people. The article, that “many have called offensive and inflammatory,” according to the Harvard Crimson, has since spurred over 200 people to sign a petition demanding that the administration “repudiate Swamy’s remarks and terminate his association with the University.”

In the op-ed in question, Swamy proposes the following response to Islamic terrorism in India:

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