2011-05-03, 12:38
#328
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Senast redigerad av Bonzo666 2011-05-04 kl. 06:52.
Senast redigerad av Bonzo666 2011-05-04 kl. 06:52.
2011-05-03, 13:15
#331
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Senast redigerad av Batuta 2011-05-03 kl. 13:39.
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2011-05-03, 15:08
#334
Kulturarbetaren Ann Ferm Wade är sannerligen ett intressant fall. Galen? Mycket möjligt. Konvertiter som odlar sitt utanförskap, sin opposition mot samhället, är inte ovanligt. Det svenska samhället är hursomhelst inte sunt. Som har påpekats flera gånger, bl a i den här tråden, så verkar ingen, eller få, vara intresserad av vad det är för organisationer eller personer som bjuds in. Eller, för att vara något mer rakt på sak, vilka megafoner som används för att predika multikulturens evangelium.
Sen är Ann Ferm Wade inget unikt fall. Långt därifrån. Västerländska kvinnor faller för Islam som aldrig förr. Eller rättare sagt, de faller för en muslim och Islam.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7135026.ece
En sak är hur dessa kvinnor resonerar - eller inte resonerar - kring religion och samhälle, en annan sak är hur samhället förhåller sig till extremister och värderingar som i andra sammanhang sägs vara självklara. Kärleksaffären med Islam förmörkar inte bara omdömet på ett individuellt plan utan också omdömet i samhället i stort.
Sen är Ann Ferm Wade inget unikt fall. Långt därifrån. Västerländska kvinnor faller för Islam som aldrig förr. Eller rättare sagt, de faller för en muslim och Islam.
Citat:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343954/100-000-Islam-converts-living-UK-White-women-keen-embrace-Muslim-faith.html
The number of Muslim converts in Britain has passed 100,000, fuelled by a surge in young white women adopting the Islamic faith.
The figure has almost doubled in ten years – with the average convert now a 27-year-old white woman fed up with British consumerism and immorality.
The numbers, revealed in a study by multi-faith group Faith Matters, have led to claims that the country is undergoing a process of ‘Islamification’.
...
The report estimated around 5,200 men and women have adopted Islam over the past 12 months, including 1,400 in London. Nearly two-thirds were women, more than 70 per cent were white and the average age at conversion was 27.
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But the report said the number of converts sucked into extremism represented a ‘very small minority’.
The figure has almost doubled in ten years – with the average convert now a 27-year-old white woman fed up with British consumerism and immorality.
The numbers, revealed in a study by multi-faith group Faith Matters, have led to claims that the country is undergoing a process of ‘Islamification’.
...
The report estimated around 5,200 men and women have adopted Islam over the past 12 months, including 1,400 in London. Nearly two-thirds were women, more than 70 per cent were white and the average age at conversion was 27.
...
But the report said the number of converts sucked into extremism represented a ‘very small minority’.
Citat:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1324039/Like-Lauren-Booth-ARE-modern-British-career-women-converting-Islam.html
For a significant amount of women, their first contact with Islam comes from *dating a Muslim boyfriend. Lynne Ali, 31, from Dagenham in Essex, freely admits to having been ‘a typical white hard-partying teenager’.
She says: ‘I would go out and get drunk with friends, wear tight and revealing clothing and date boys.
‘I also worked part-time as a DJ, so I was really into the club scene. I used to pray a bit as a Christian, but I used God as a sort of doctor, to fix things in my life. If anyone asked, I would’ve said that, generally, I was happy living life in the fast lane.’
But when she met her boyfriend, Zahid, at university, something dramatic happened.
[...]
The turning point for Kristiane came when she met and briefly dated the former Pakistani cricketer and Muslim Imran Khan in 1992 during the height of her career. He took her to Pakistan where she says she was immediately touched by spirituality and the warmth of the people.
[...]
Yet statistics suggest Islamic conversion is not a mere flash in the pan but a significant development. Islam is, after all, the world’s fastest growing religion, and white adopters are an important part of that story.
According to Kevin Brice from *Swansea University, who has specialised in studying white conversion to Islam, these women are part of an intriguing trend.
He explains: ‘They seek spirituality, a higher meaning, and tend to be deep thinkers. The other type of women who turn to Islam are what I call “converts of convenience”. They’ll assume the trappings of the religion to please their Muslim husband and his family, but won’t necessarily attend mosque, pray or fast.’
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‘Evidence suggests that the ratio of Western women converts to male could be as high as 2:1,’ says Kevin Brice.
Moreover, he says, often these female *converts are eager to display the *visible signs of their faith — in particular the hijab — whereas many Muslim girls brought up in the faith choose not to.
‘Perhaps as a result of these actions, which tend to draw attention, white Muslims often report greater amounts of discrimination against them than do born Muslims,’ adds Brice, which is what happened to Kristiane Backer.
She says: ‘I would go out and get drunk with friends, wear tight and revealing clothing and date boys.
‘I also worked part-time as a DJ, so I was really into the club scene. I used to pray a bit as a Christian, but I used God as a sort of doctor, to fix things in my life. If anyone asked, I would’ve said that, generally, I was happy living life in the fast lane.’
But when she met her boyfriend, Zahid, at university, something dramatic happened.
[...]
The turning point for Kristiane came when she met and briefly dated the former Pakistani cricketer and Muslim Imran Khan in 1992 during the height of her career. He took her to Pakistan where she says she was immediately touched by spirituality and the warmth of the people.
[...]
Yet statistics suggest Islamic conversion is not a mere flash in the pan but a significant development. Islam is, after all, the world’s fastest growing religion, and white adopters are an important part of that story.
According to Kevin Brice from *Swansea University, who has specialised in studying white conversion to Islam, these women are part of an intriguing trend.
He explains: ‘They seek spirituality, a higher meaning, and tend to be deep thinkers. The other type of women who turn to Islam are what I call “converts of convenience”. They’ll assume the trappings of the religion to please their Muslim husband and his family, but won’t necessarily attend mosque, pray or fast.’
...
‘Evidence suggests that the ratio of Western women converts to male could be as high as 2:1,’ says Kevin Brice.
Moreover, he says, often these female *converts are eager to display the *visible signs of their faith — in particular the hijab — whereas many Muslim girls brought up in the faith choose not to.
‘Perhaps as a result of these actions, which tend to draw attention, white Muslims often report greater amounts of discrimination against them than do born Muslims,’ adds Brice, which is what happened to Kristiane Backer.
Citat:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7135026.ece
Aqeela Lindsay Wheeler
Housewife and mother, 26, Leicester
“It wasn’t until my second year that I met Hussein. I knew he was a Muslim, but we were falling in love, so I brushed the whole issue of religion under the carpet. But six months into our relationship, he told me that being with me was ‘against his faith’.
Housewife and mother, 26, Leicester
“It wasn’t until my second year that I met Hussein. I knew he was a Muslim, but we were falling in love, so I brushed the whole issue of religion under the carpet. But six months into our relationship, he told me that being with me was ‘against his faith’.
Citat:
Catherine Heseltine
Nursery school teacher, 31, North London
“Before meeting Syed, I’d never actually questioned what I believed in; I’d just picked up my casual agnosticism through osmosis. So I started reading a few books on Islam out of curiosity.
“In the beginning, the Koran appealed to me on an intellectual level; the emotional and spiritual side didn’t come until later. I loved its explanations of the natural world and discovered that 1,500 years ago, Islam gave women rights that they didn’t have here in the West until relatively recently. It was a revelation.
Over time, I actually became more religious than my husband.
Nursery school teacher, 31, North London
“Before meeting Syed, I’d never actually questioned what I believed in; I’d just picked up my casual agnosticism through osmosis. So I started reading a few books on Islam out of curiosity.
“In the beginning, the Koran appealed to me on an intellectual level; the emotional and spiritual side didn’t come until later. I loved its explanations of the natural world and discovered that 1,500 years ago, Islam gave women rights that they didn’t have here in the West until relatively recently. It was a revelation.
Over time, I actually became more religious than my husband.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7135026.ece
En sak är hur dessa kvinnor resonerar - eller inte resonerar - kring religion och samhälle, en annan sak är hur samhället förhåller sig till extremister och värderingar som i andra sammanhang sägs vara självklara. Kärleksaffären med Islam förmörkar inte bara omdömet på ett individuellt plan utan också omdömet i samhället i stort.
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