Wertheim: Modern-Day Racism. A Mixture that Calls for Some Clarification [EN]

Propagators of modern-day racism, which is often called Islamophobia in an effort to take off the edge, claim that all they are doing is warning people about what they see as the danger of Islam, and that it has nothing to do with racism. But it is a misconception to think that racism only pertains to the physical features people are born with. Throughout history, cultural characteristics that people develop in the course of their lives have also been grounds for maligning and excluding certain groups. The competition racism that mercantile minorities all across the globe have been, and still are, confronted with, as well as the anti-Semitism in pre-WWII Europe, were imbued with cultural prejudices, and never failed to include the item of religion.

Nonetheless it is understandable that people feel confused. Modern-day racism is a mixture of two types of racism, exploitation or colonial racism and cultural or competition racism. Thus, while focusing primarily on a cultural aspect of the group, such as Islam, their religion, there still exists a focus on the group’s physical features. I will try to explain this in my article.

I was born in Indonesia when it was still a Dutch colony...

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Amerikaanse Wilders-vrienden schieten in eigen voet! [NL]

Ach en wee. Wat erg! Moslims willen een "triomf"-moskee bouwen op de plek van "hun" misdaad-van-de-eeuw: Ground Zero in New York City.

De kwaadaardige hypocrisie van de haatzaaiers werd dezer dagen geïllustreerd door de ontdekking, dat de Saudische mede-financier van het Cordoba-project, die door Fox werd gebanvloekt wegens zijn "terroristengeld", tevens een van de belangrijkste aandeelhouders is van het Murdoch-concern waartoe Fox News behoort!

Still uit Stewart's uitzending. Fox News genereert shareholder value voor de saudiër, die het weer investeert in het Cordoba centrum..."Wie "as a nation" het Cordoba-centrum wil boykotten wegens het Saudische geld, moet ook "Fox News" boycotten!", constateert de Amerikaanse tv-persoonlijkheid Jon Stewart in een hilarische uitzending, die verderop in dit stuk te bekijken valt.

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"Evil" (dixit Fox News) Saudi co-sponsor of "WTC Mosque", is big shareholder of ... Fox News! [EN]

Fox News shares an evil sponsor with the NYC WTC Mosque!If the Park 51 Cordoba center should be declared evil because of its co-sponsor, as Fox news claims, then we should do the same with Murdoch's Fox News itself, for it has the same co-investor...

Evil and Stupidity. The mix of them spells no good for whomever is building horror- and doom-scenarios.

The evil men are Newt Gingrich and John Bolton, frustrated politicians.

The stupidity is glamorously represented by Pamela Geller, and, as we will see here, the biggest US news channel, Murdoch's Fox News.

The scene is Lower Manhattan. A Muslim community of Sufi inspiration has been established there for many years. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf was among the first and most outspoken Muslims who condemned the Al Qaeda terrorist actions of September 11, 2001. Some of his constituents were among the 3.000 victims of the terrorist attacks on the WTC towers. The Bush administration helped him to spread his message in the US and all over the world.

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Is de Nederlandse rechtsstaat in gevaar? - Nee, ze is al bijna verdwenen... [NL]

Geert Wilders in kostuum Admiraal De Ruyter (2010)

Inwoners van beschaafde landen die ik spreek, kunnen het niet bevatten. "Je overdrijft!", zeggen ze. Maar heus. Het is waar. 24 van de 150 zetels in het parlement worden bezet door lieden die aan niemand anders verantwoording hoeven af te leggen dan aan de heer Geert Wilders en zijn Stichtingen.
"Is er dan geen eed, die verkozenen moeten afleggen, dat ze van niemand geld hebben aangenomen en met niemand verplichtingen zijn aangegaan in verband met de uitoefening van hun verantwoordelijkheid als verkozenen des volks?"
Antwoord: Ja, die eed is er, zoals overal.

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