The Islamophobe Deplorables
Racist Geert Wilders leads chants fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands | NOS - 19 Mar 2014 |
During the PVV meeting in The Hague, PVV leader Wilders had his audience chant that there should be fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands. He caused quite a stir with that statement last week.
Wilders first asked: "Do you want more or less Europe? The audience shouted: "Less, less, less." Then the same thing happened with the question whether the PVV members want more or less PvdA.
Not punishable
Finally, Wilders pointed to freedom of speech and said that he had not said anything punishable about Moroccans last week. He then asked: "Do you want more or fewer Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands? The audience's answer was: "Less, less, less!"
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The conviction of PVV leader Wilders by the Hague Court of Appeal for group insult remains in place by the High Council today. The ruling involved no penalty for Wilders.
The infamy of the Gatestone Institute
Moroccan Crime in the Netherlands & the Myths of Multiculturalism
"Because They Do Not Want To"
Chanting death to Arabs in Amsterdam - Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans coming home @BenGurion airport
Viral video falsely captioned as 'Muslims hunting Jews in Amsterdam' * FRANCE 24 English
Users are sharing a video, claiming it shows "Middle Eastern migrants hunting Jews" on the streets of Amsterdam. The original creator of this video debunked these claims, explaining that the video actually shows Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters starting a fight with a Dutch man. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
My earlier writings on Sephardic Jews, the Inquisition, refugees and (New) Amsterdam ...
A lying liar as VVD party successor to Mark Rutte and a perfect match with Islamophobe Geert Wilders forming the majority in the new Dutch coalition.
Yesilgöz has long been against a widespread ban on Quran desecration, as suggested by Marcouch, defending people's freedom to demonstrate. "Where the freedom of one person promotes oppression or hatred of another, the law should provide protection," Marcouch argued. He said it should be classified similarly to criminally punishable hate speech, like categorically smearing entire groups of people, or inciting violence and threats.
AT5 report mothers township coaches Dutch youth of Moroccan descent - be proud 💪🏽
With the help of parents, officers and coaches, Plein '40-'45 remained calm | AT5 |
Thanks to the efforts of parents, police officers and street coaches, it remained quiet on Plein '40-'45 in Amsterdam Nieuw-West last night, city broadcaster AT5 reports.
Imam Mohammed el Fakiriwas also on the streets to talk to young people. 'We are all here together to protect our city and the Netherlands', he tells AT5.
El Fakiri had already had a long day of conversations in which he sternly addressed young people about the riots on Monday evening in which a tram burned down. 'How can you attack a tram like that? Maybe your own family is in it, but even without that it doesn't matter. It is unacceptable', he says indignantly. The fact that the neighbourhood is again in the news in a negative way affects him deeply. 'But we are not giving up', he adds determinedly.
As a precaution, to prevent new unrest, no trams were running to Lambertus Zijplein and Slotermeer tonight. This forced many residents, including elderly people, parents with prams and people with groceries, to take a long walk home from the city centre, as our reporter who cycled through the neighbourhood saw.
The police, who patrolled the district with many vans the night before, have released images of those involved in the riots and are warning that more images will be shown, according to AT5. `If you were involved in these violent incidents, please report yourself, otherwise we will make the images public', the police call reads.
Rutte IV continued to portray migrants as a threat to democracy
Dutch Social-Democracy - De Kanttekening
History of Morocco as a French protectorate before WW II
Moroccans fought Nazi German as a French legion in Second World War
Moroccans and the Second World War | Dutch WWII Verzetsmuseum (Resistance) |
Not only for the Dutch but also for the Moroccans the Second World War is an encroaching period of time. Tens of thousands Moroccans in the French armed forces fight the armies of Hitler's Germany. They are known to be very brave. Thousands die.
The people in Morocco itself are confronted with anti-Jewish legislation and the arrival of Jewish refugees. Many Moroccans hope for independence after the war as a token of gratitude for their contribution.
France and Spain
Morocco had been an independent country for ages led by a sultan when this changes in 1912. France takes control of southern Morocco and Spain takes over the northern part and the Sahara. The French recognise the importance of the sultan but in words only. They want to modernise Morocco and confiscate farmlands. The farmers oppose this and the French strike back harshly. Many are killed. With no lands or possessions many poor farmers enlist in the French army.
Spinoza's father was a loyal son of Israel, unlike his son | JPost |
How France Colonized North Africa
Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. All independent nations, all fall to French Conquest and Colonization. Watch their epic struggle for survival as this region, known as the Maghreb, takes on a global superpower.
Emir Abdelkader al-Jazairi (1808-1883)
Emir Abdelkader al-Qadir al-Jazairi (1808-1883) was a venerated Algerian Islamic scholar and a military leader who led a collective resistance against the mid-nineteenth century French colonial invasion of Algeria. He is remembered today as one of the nineteenth century’s most inspiring leaders for his humane treatment of Christian opponents during Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle and for leading an intervention to rescue the Christian community in Damascus from certain massacre in the midst of sectarian riots in 1860.
Raised in his father’s zawiya, he excelled as a student, memorizing the Qur’an by the age of 14, and studying the Islamic religious sciences as well as subjects such as philosophy, medicine, and mathematics. He was especially known as a gifted orator who outshone his peers in the recitation of poetry and in delivering religious talks. His father, a notable spiritual leader affiliated with the Qadiriyya order, recognized his son’s precociousness, and cast a leadership role upon him shortly after the invasion of Algeria by France in 1830.
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With the rise of the Second Republic, however, the French would break its monarchy’s promise, and the Emir was imprisoned in France until 1852, when new political circumstances and advocacy from French notables, including former prisoners that he had treated humanely, led to his release, with a generous pension, to Bursa, Turkey. In 1855, he moved to Damascus and occupied himself with devotion and scholarship, his first loves, writing a philosophical treatise and, later, a book on the Arabian horse.
But he would garner worldwide attention again in 1860 when a conflict between the Druze and Maronite Christians spread to Damascus. With the minority Christian population facing massacre, he led his Algerian companions into the Christian quarter to bring thousands of Christians into his home for safety. When a mob demanded their release, he refused, citing Islamic principles to protect innocents. He was credited with saving 10,000 lives and received gifts and accolades from political leaders in France, the United States, Great Britain, and many other parts of the world.
The New York Times described him as “one of the few great men of the century,” and his legacy lives on today even in the United States, where the town of Elkader in the state of Iowa is named after him, and among Muslims around the world who regard him as embodying the highest ideals of their faith.
Small American Town, Big Algerian Legacy | Aramco World |
University of Iowa freshman and winner in the contest’s Elkader High School Division, Samantha Wiedner, right, talks with Jefferson High School tenth grader Lena Osman outside of the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids. “Being intolerant to other cultures and religions isn’t going to get us anywhere,” Wiedner says. “Despite all our differences, we should be able to co-exist.”
She says she learned that “being intolerant to other cultures and religions isn’t going to get us anywhere. Despite all our differences, we should be able to coexist.”
Noureen Choudhary, 20 and a student at Villanova University, learned about the essay contest from her mother, who was born in Algeria.
“I first heard the name Abd el-Kader in a song popularized by Algerian musicians Khaled, Faudel and Rachid Taha,” says Choudhary, who was born and raised in Philadelphia. Though she was only four, she says the memorable tune and appealing lyrics made her wonder who it was about.
“My mother told me he was an Algerian hero,” she continues. “I now realize he is a figure widely heralded as an ideal Muslim, humanitarian, warrior, leader and source of Algerian national pride of the 19th century.”
An Overview Of French Colonialism In The Maghreb - Analysis
The treatment of the supposedly French Algerians was in stark contrast to the pretenses presented by the offered citizenship and renamed French Algeria. The French considered the Algerians to be uncivilized, uncouth, illiterate, and dirty, and treated them as a lower class within Algeria.
The first legal sign of this was the declaration of land reforms, which essentially took Algerian land, reassigned its ownership to French migrants within Algeria known as the pied-noir, and forced Algerians to work the land. This, enforced the second-class status of the Algerian natives and gave elevated status to the pieds-noirs who had, essentially, become landowners through no personal history, labor or achievement.
The Algerians were, now, working as slaves on land they had previously owned, which caused a great deal of humiliation, commonly called "hogra," for the Algerians, as well as, a growing resentment for the French and idealization of the pre-colonial period.
However, some Algerians were able to more easily blend in to the newly-French culture of Algeria, and gained education in French and European matters, which created a divide within Algerian society between the Algerians who identified strongly as Muslim Arabs and those who blended more into French society.
France's Scarlet Letter | Vanity Fair - June 2003 |
Paris demonstrators yelling "Kill the Jews!," torched synagogues, attacks against schoolkids ... Ten percent Muslim, with the world's third-largest Jewish population, France is in crisis. And few are willing to name the poison behind more than a thousand acts of violence since 2001: anti-Semitism.
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The situation, David de Rothschild later told me, was fraught with complexity. In addition to a large number of distinguished Arab intellectuals, France was also home to cells of terrorists, fundamentalist imams, and firms with strong business ties to Baghdad. When Rothschild arrived in Israel in May 2001, he had also left behind him another, subtler struggle, going on behind closed doors, between the establishment Ashkenazi Jews of central Paris and the pieds-noirs, French citizens formerly of North Africa, many of them lower-middle-class Sephardic Jews who live in the suburbs. The Sephardic communities in the Paris outskirts were the principal targets of anti-Western paranoia spewing up out of the Middle East. A widely shared position of the upper-class Jewish establishment in France was to let such things alone and not jeter de l'huile sur le feu (throw oil on the fire).
Anti-Jewish Legislation in. Orthodox Africa | U.S. Holocaust Museum |
Long understood as a strictly European tragedy, the Holocaust's reach extended far beyond the traditional boundaries of continental Europe to the Muslim world of North Africa. The Vichy regime introduced race laws to the North African territories in October of 1940. These laws were implemented variously across North Africa, as Vichy law interacted with pre-existing colonial law and wartime realities.
The French-German Armistice, signed on June 22, 1940, established a zone of German occupation in northern and western France and placed southern France under the rule of a new collaborationist government based in Vichy. The Vichy government, which would fall under the direction of Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain, retained administrative control over France's colonies in Asia and Africa, including colonial Algeria and the protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia. The Vichy regime introduced race laws to the North African territories in October of 1940. These laws were implemented variously across North Africa, as Vichy law interacted with pre-existing colonial law and wartime realities.
On October 3, 1940, the first anti-Jewish law (Le Statut des Juifs) was introduced in France. Modeled on the Nuremberg Laws, the Statut des Juifs offered a racial definition of Jews living in the metropole and in Algeria. Four days later, the Crémieux Decree was abolished by the initiative of the Vichy regime, and Algerian Jews were stripped of their citizenship.
In 1941, the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (The General Commission for Jewish Affairs, or CGQJ) was established under the leadership of Xavier Vallat. The Vichy regime tasked this commission with supervising the implementation of anti-Jewish policies in France, and with developing and implementing legislation to further the goals of this policy. The new legislation produced by this body, the Statut des Juifs of 1941, replaced the older order.
EuroTrib archive - Palestine, Israel, and the Abuse of History | by nonpartisan - May 2007 |
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In Europe there should be more dialogue between ethnic diverse groups led by governments - a responsibility. ⁉️
We can't stop the violence over there, Sami Kaspi knows: 'I can better talk to Mohammed around the corner' | Trouw |
Sami Kaspi, chair of the Maimon Foundation, looks with dismay at the violence in Israel and Gaza. 'Maimonides already said it: If you want peace, go to people. Listen to each other.'
Salomon Maimon's "History of His Philosophical Authorship in Dialogues": A Primer and Translation | Cambridge University |
Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) was likely the most radical philosopher to enter the orbit of the Jewish Enlightenment movement, or haskalah. In fact, he remains one of the most challenging and original Jewish thinkers of the modern era.
Maimon authored the first modern Jewish autobiography, published in 1792-93. Since then, a wide range of thinkers and writers--including Heinrich Heine, George Eliot, and Chaim Potok--have carefully studied this definitive text. Through it and other work, Maimon also shaped the philosophical movement following Immanuel Kant known as German Idealism (which might, without too much hyperbole, perhaps better be called German Jewish Idealism, given the importance of Maimon's as well as Benedict Spinoza's thought, and more--including apparently Kabbalah).
Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews
When I was very young I was told by a white
bearded man I revered that Muslims were desert
barbarians who had somehow stumbled upon
the God of our fathers and had taken Him for
themselves, distorting His worship to suit their
whims. This man, gentle and very old, was
deeply pious and sealed within the world of Torah.
Beyond that world lay the poison fruit of alien
civilizations. How easily we label unknown worlds
barbaric. Everyone is a barbarian to someone.
This sort of thing has a purpose: to help Potok formulate a perspective on Jewish history, and especially--as the two quotations above suggest--on the Jewish confrontation with other cultures and civilizations. Yet considered as history, the volume never makes its thesis clear.
Chaim Potok's Wandering Jews: Holding to Faith in a Critical Age
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