Below you find a crucial part from the Preface of a very soon to be published book. Official launch will be November 23. Title: 49:49Subtitle: The Emperor’s Old Rags The penny dropped when I started translating the book into English.The previous section is titled: ‘Not hurting your Mom ‘. ” The moment I looked again… Continue reading A Penny dropped
Category: 49:49
Abrahamic Religions
Timur Lenk in Boston
Or: Ignorance about Mohammedanism then and now When I stopped adding new content to my Dutch-language website islamofobie.nl *) in 2014, I turned it into a kind of archive. In that context, I also made a new division of categories. Looking back in 2024 –and more specifically: after October 7, 2023– the ‘History‘ category is… Continue reading Timur Lenk in Boston
A Preface
Below you find the draft of the Preface of a soon to be published book. Title: 49:49 Subtitle: The Emperor’s Old Rags An autobiographical Anecdote This book has an autobiographical side. This foreword all the more so. Starting with a personal anecdote would therefore be appropriate. An anecdote that has no direct relationship with the… Continue reading A Preface
Mohammed’s personal life
In a previous draft of this text I had not placed sufficient emphasis on the misogynist aspect of this specific surah of the Quran. This is the last of the paragraphs of the soon to be published book 49:49. Subtitled The Emperors Old Rags, prepublished on this website. §9 ‘Aunt’ Lahab and the ban on… Continue reading Mohammed’s personal life
The highly problematic position of the UN re religions
As I described in the preliminary version of 49:49’s preface (see link below this post), its Postface grew to over 40% of the book. I am now publishing the almost final version of its first three paragraphs. The title of this blog post is the same as the last of those three. Within the category… Continue reading The highly problematic position of the UN re religions
Silly threats to intimidate dissidents (1)
Seven and a half years ago, a ridiculous Islamophilia show was staged in the city council of the Dutch capital Amsterdam. Since then, the trouble has only increased further, not only in Amsterdam, but throughout the Netherlands. One of the main characters in that show became defense minister 1), another became a member of parliament.… Continue reading Silly threats to intimidate dissidents (1)