@Denkjewel@VictorVlam Het is wel een groot probleem als journalisten van onze staatsomroep allemaal dezelfde mening ventileren. En daarbij op de man spelen. Dat riekt naar communisme.
@BinnenH@DevliegerErik Handige truc om deze simpele vraag niet te hoeven beantwoorden. Omdat je antwoord zelf ook wel weet. Namelijk: niets. En dat antwoord kun je niet aan. Trump derangement syndrome. Nb ben geen fan van Trump maar wel van het democratische systeem.
What exactly are people afraid of when they stay silent about what they really think of the Gaza war? No secret police is going to drag them out of bed in the middle of the night, and no one is going to slip polonium into their tea. I myself have never felt physically threatened because of my strong views on the conflict, with one or two exceptions (it's much worse for Jews, as well as for Muslim/Arab dissidents).
But that doesn't mean speaking out is free of consequences. To give you an idea, here's a sample of what I've experienced personally over the past two and a half years:
· A friend of mine, whom I once helped with one of his own books, now writes a steady stream of public posts about what a far-right, xenophobic, Arab-hating, Nazi-adjacent bigot I am.
· An academic colleague who kindly blurbed one of my earlier books emailed my rector behind my back to demand that disciplinary action be taken against me for my "zionist-tinged views".
· A friend whose book I once blurbed has successfully got me cancelled at an organization we're both associated with, and has also tried to get me fired at UGent because I'm the equivalent of a "Holocaust denialist" (no worries — I'd already left of my own accord).
· Someone I'd been close with for about two decades became a father without my knowing, because he had cut off all contact.
· Someone called my mother (!) to sternly demand an explanation for her son's behavior.
· A cordial colleague I'd had dinner with kicked me out of their philosophical discussion group, blocked me on every social media platform, and ignored my polite emails asking for a clarification.
· I've been deplatformed twice in academia — a talk and a debate — over my "Zionist views."
· The president of an organization I worked with smeared me as being "paid by the Zionist lobby", then blocked my Facebook accounts and email when I asked for a retraction.
· I've had to promise my girlfriend I won't talk about Israel on public television anymore, as she's afraid for my physical safety (she needn't worry: no TV program would be insane enough to invite me on that topic anyway).
· My closest friends stay loyal, but are under pressure from their own friends to disown me and break off contact.
· This is not even counting the long list of friends and colleagues I haven't heard from in a long while, or who have ignored my messages, where I only suspect—but can't prove—that my political views have something to do with it. It has made me slightly paranoid!
Yes, some of this stings. But don't worry — I still have plenty of good friends left. And perhaps I should be grateful to have discovered that these "friends" were never really friends in the first place.
I've also made plenty of new ones over the past two years, often people with similar (or much worse) stories of social ostracism.
Needless to say, I've also pretty much ruined my career prospects in academia. But that's fine — I still write the occasional academic paper as a self-employed writer, and at least I don't have to put up with the bureaucratic bullshit and the daily hostility.😉
Wiam ist erst 13 Jahre alt und wurde gezwungen, den 29-jährigen Mohammed zu heiraten.
Unter Tränen erzählt sie von ihrem täglichen Albtraum:
Jede Nacht muss sie bereit für ihn sein.
Sie darf bei keiner seiner Forderungen „Nein“ sagen.
Wird sie abweisend, wird sie geschlagen.
Der Rest ist zu grausam, um ihn in Worte zu fassen.
@MuslimLifeNL@SelmadeMeester1@Allesopdemotor Gelijkwaardigheid op een voorgeschreven onvrije manier druist volledig in tegen de westerse normen en waarden. Gek dat je deze opvatting (nog) niet deelt. Gaat nl. prima samen met je persoonlijke geloofsbelijdenis.
@MuslimLifeNL@Allesopdemotor Het valt niet te meten hoeveel % van de moslims de Nederlandse rechtsorde wil vervangen. Zelfs jij bent niet te vertrouwen aangezien je de sharia belangrijker vindt dan de Grondwet.
@MuslimLifeNL@Allesopdemotor De sharia is geen persoonlijke geloofsbelijdenis zoals jij het hier doet voorkomen maar een voorgeschreven ordening van de samenleving. In de UAE weten ze dat. Daarom is de moslimbroederschap daar verboden.
@RoderickvanTets Opvolgers van Taghi. Het probleem zit hem in de driehoek die hun politiemensen met een deëscalerende opdracht het veld in sturen. Hoog tijd voor tasers en een dienstopdracht van zero tolerance. En een OM dat keihard vervolgt.