A very important event will take place this Friday in Cologne (see below). Unfortunately, the media (including the right blog PI News) have hardly mentioned. I will be there, and looking forward to seeing you numerous. It is an important opportunity to show that criticism of Islam nothing to do with racism, xenophobia or fundamentalism law.
counter xenophobia and reactionary Islam defense special event of Critical Islam Conference occasion of the so-called "Anti-Islamisation Congress"
Speakers: Ralph Giordano, Mina Ahadi and Hartmut Krauss Friday 12 September 2008 Cologne Hostel Riehl, An der Schanz 14 Start: 18:30 , fee: 5 € Organizer: Central Council of Ex-Muslims, editorial background, Giordano Bruno Foundation
The popular blog critical of Islam "hegab, nekab and other trash," (250,000 visitors within a year) has now been deleted by a hacker, including Facebook group, I've found this great video. It is a recording from the Saudi state radio "Alriyadhiya", a sports and youth channel. In the broadcast, it's about the relationship of male youth with her sisters. In the video, the report asks single pair young people on the street for their opinion. I could not resist it, to translate the interview for you into German, so you could take a look how the youth in Saudi Arabia thinks.
The interview is on Saudi dialect, so are many terms and phrases difficult to translate, but I have done my best.
We realize that it can be seen clearly through the clothes and the way these young people that they are not very stringent conditions for Saudi believers.
Here's the translation: (R: the man on the right, L: the man on the left)
Journalist: When you're the last time went out with your sister? She taken to a restaurant? With what you ate out?
R: eat in restaurants, we do not know. eat with their parents at home, so what else, never.
L: These are our traditions,
R: take my sister to go for shopping, going out with her, that must not be ...
Journalist: What is your name?
L: Naief ..
Journalist: Naief So, we are growing now in 2007, the girls, and with them grow their claims ..?
interruption
L: There is another problem when I take my sister into a shopping center, or to another place, I will fault, that their eyes are opened to greater things, you know, when it is sitting at home, covered (gasp), you know, then their thinking is limited to certain things, you know, in their homes, their family and so, for her husband, their future, but if I take her to a shopping mall, they will see the other girls, you know you, and you certainly know the situation (flirting and internet and telephone links are meant here) and they will see the other girls ... (he hesitates to say it), they will start on things to think, that must not be You know what I mean?
Journalist: So you think that girls nowadays are so ignorant and clueless?
L: But they already know what's going, but if they think at home when they are at home is, with her family, then we pay attention to it, but if we take them to a shopping center, they will see boys, the other girls what they wear, the new Abajas (the Saudi black woman's dress), then it is influenced by ,
Journalist: So, so your sister does these things not in school, at university? Does she see these things not in the Bluetooth, the internet ..?
L: neee, neee, neee! So as for my sister, there is no such thing, neee. My sister, she is conservative (orthodox, pant) I swear by Allah that they absolutely never leaves the house,
Journalist: Why?
L: (Mad) brother, that's up my sister! It is my shame! How should I take to the outside? Am I right, or not? Is it true?
Journalist: That's your opinion ..
L: No, that's the truth! It is important to express them, if you tomorrow, may prevent Allah, something happens (in the moral sense), my face will be in the sand (that is a great shame and disgrace will finish me), or the wrong?
Journalist: why we say, take care of your sister, she noted, not more ...
L: On the contrary, I care very good care of them, all what she wants, she'll get from me immediately, Journalist: (skeptical) You sure?
L: But clearly, but that I take with her outside, and shopping malls to that every man they see, that is, and you are my brother, that's impossible In our time, you say we in the years 2007, 2007, there is the greatest depravity! 2007 is all (decadent, reprehensible) happens! I will take with them to the shopping center where the girls wear tight, immoral Abajas? This simply does not work!
The inscription Allah will reward you richly, her youth Saudi Arabia! This is our true reality and these are our traditions, Allah may take away not us!
The Muslim Brotherhood: "invitation" to Bush to Islam
So many Muslims would like George Bush!
This is no joke, but after the performances by the Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic-compliant real. A journalist for the Egyptian newspaper was at a closed meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood and has written the following:
Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to George Bush. "Aslim, taslam" (such as: become a Muslim, then you'll be spared)
In a closed organizational meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood in its Cairo headquarters, in the presence of some journalists and intellectuals, announced Dr. Mahmoud Izzat, secretary general and member of the executive offices (the highest authority of the organization), that he had a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush has sent.
In the letter, Izzat, he called on the President to convert to Islam. He added, as has George Bush the "Dar al-Islam (House of Islam) to enter, we need to introduce him to Islam, so that his soul is safe (and he can feel safe), and pointed out that the phrase "Aslim, taslam " (the Prophet Muhammad has written this sentence in a letter to the Byzantine emperor) should be said about any non-Muslim who visited the country. The Deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Dr. Muhammad Habib was also present at the meeting.
Another interesting Articles by islamonline.net, the largest Islamic Internet portal, founded by the Grand scholar Sheikh Al-Qaradawi, and run by Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Qatar.
The site is in my opinion, decisive and important, because in the Arabic-speaking world as "moderate" is because there is, for example, over Cannes and Oscar films, where reporting and online courses in sex education. So we can say that the website represents the Arabic-speaking mainstream Islam. The website reported very frequently and intensively about Islam and Muslims in Europe that form a focal point of the page.
regrets that this article, the reporter's absence an Arab role in Kosovo. The article is particularly interesting because it shows how such thinking Dawa-Islamists, and how they perceive the reality. Recently, one should mention the fact that to date not a single Arabic-speaking country has officially recognized Kosovo, and of the Muslim countries, this has only done Afghanistan and Turkey. Although many observers have expected that many Arabic-speaking countries will do because of their proximity and "addiction" to the West this.
The "independent" Kosovo: American School and Bill Clinton Boulevard
A single visit to the Faculty of Literature at the University of Pristina, the capital of the "independent" Kosovo is sufficient to determine, is left as little of the Arab and Islamic presence in Kosovo, in contrast to visible growing Western presence in the component parts of the latest Muslim state in Europe.
If you enter the Institute of Anglistik and Germanistik, you feel like in London or Berlin because the German and British embassies, the two institutions can be renovated and equipped with everything a student to learn a language is required.
other hand, has the Arabic Institute of the Faculty (the only one in the country) apparently changed since its inception in the early 60's nothing. As it is, can any of the 22 Arab countries are reminiscent of the Institute!
When you figure out walk from the university will, duliegt the main road Pristisnas see before you, the Bill Clinton-street, where a huge photo adorns him for a high-rise, in recognition of his role in stopping the Serbian war against Kosovo 1999th
And when you go out of curiosity to the spot where the Kosovo's independence celebrated was to you in one of the many cafes to sit there, you'll notice that the place of hundreds of Western employees of international organizations, European companies and banks is visited, and again there is not a single Arab but you. There is a feeling of the unknown.
While you sit in the cafe, you see to your left, the building of the American school (American School), and if you demand, you will find that Western schools are from kindergarten to high school found everywhere in Kosovo, and no matter how long you search you'll find not a single Arab school!
The Western banks are also in the center of Pristina to see everywhere, and once again not a single Arab Bank!
you walk through the town, and when _ is the statue of Skanderbeg (Albanian national hero) near the government building in your sight, you will see there a young man who sells national flags. In addition to the Albanian flag and the flag of the European Union, there are flags of many other countries, most of Western countries like those of western countries like the U.S. or the UK, and as usual, you will not only flag of an Arab or Islamic country find!
If we in the Arab role Kosovo talking to you, it is primarily about the humanitarian or relief agencies. Even this role is, since 11 September declined because of 25 organizations active in 1999, are only 8 organizations in the country remained.
Muslims in Kosovo are wondering about the reasons for this condition, especially because their country "is the declaration of independence at a crucial stage, and the support and assistance of the Arab countries have great need," said Muhammad Al- Laithi, the chief editor of the Albanian Islamic Web Message. "
Sharif Hasan, Bureau Chief the Saudi Arabian Committee (an organization) believes that one of the reasons for the decline of the Arab role in Kosovo lies in the fact that "disasters are driven back into other areas in the Islamic world, the Kosovo problem, because the need in these areas is very large and the nightmare is over with the Serbian occupation. According to Hasan, the Saudi Arabian charity is one of the largest Arab organizations working in Kosovo. She spent 1999 to 2007 about 227 million U.S. dollars for their various projects.
is criticized by Arab aid organizations in Kosovo, especially so close to sources that they could engage only in traditional service duties, and to neglect important areas such as educational and cultural projects, which serve as a bridge between the Arab world and the Muslims in Kosovo and also form a "soft power" of Muslims in the country. There is also criticism that exists in these organizations do not have long-term planning.
Islamic thinker and historian, Nejat Ibrahim points out that "the attacks of 11 September in the U.S. is the real reason, which placed the Arab organizations have been forced under U.S. pressure to stop its activities in Kosovo. " Muslims in Kosovo are worried not only about the dominance of Western culture on the Islamic in their country because of the absence of an Arab-Islamic role, but even they are afraid that Islam will go down in Kosovo.
Nejat Ibrahim Islamonline.net said, "that is the number of Western organizations operating in the country over 1000, among which there are some Western education institutions that have set themselves the goal, konvertierenkonvertiren as many Muslims as possible to Christianity as as possible, especially in particular because of the very large Muslim population in Kosovo (90%).
He cites the Italian nuns' school in Prizren in the south of the country, "a missionary where public, and where Muslims attend their classes."
"If the Arab-Islamic activities do not return to Kosovo soon reinforced," said Farid Ajani, professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Pristina and former parliamentarians of the Partia e Drejtësisë (Party of Justice), "no one is future of the newborn Muslim state in Europe predict or guarantee its Islamic identity "
