Women’s rights, Sexual freedom and Islamophobia – A feminist’ dilemma
“But you’re a feminist, surely you should be against immigration into Denmark? Surely you are against the way women are treated in Islamic culture?” Personally being exposed to questions like these, is only one of the many demonstrations of how women’s rights, sexual freedom or the freedom of expression and association for lesbian and gay [...]
Cameron and Counter-terrorism: Creating a Shared Sense of Identity?
David Cameron’s speech on radicalisation and Islamic terror delivered at the Munich Security Conference outlined the Coalition Government’s standpoint regarding multiculturalism and counter-terrorism strategy. Significantly, only weeks after the Conservative co-chairman Baroness Warsi announced that Islamophobia had become socially acceptable in Britain, Cameron’s attack on multiculturalism appeared to align the Government with the ideology of [...]
Gaza: One small step towards the breaking of the siege
Exactly one year after the “Operation Cast Lead” in December 2008, where 1400 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli war crimes, 1400 international peace activists from more than 40 countries gathered with the one common aim to break the siege of Gaza in a non-violent freedom march against the ongoing blockade, which forces the 1.5 million inhabitants of [...]
