Een heel fijn stukje luisterradio op BNR vanmiddag. GeenPeil is één van de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in onze democratie sinds Thorbecke. Dat zei lifehacker en funtrepeneur Martijn Aslander (@), en hij legde op BNR juichend uit waarom hij dat vindt. Uit pure ontroering hebben we geen idee wat we moeten zeggen, maar we zouden Aslander toch niet kunnen overtreffen. Die legt namelijk feilloos uit waarom GeenPeil goed, belangrijk & allround heersende democratische betrokkenheid is. Luister hierboven het hele fragment, en voor de boeken hebben we hieronder een paar stijlloze powerquotes van Aslander helemaal uitgeschreven.
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Approximately 104,460 asylum seekers arrived in Germany during the month of August, setting a new record. That makes 413,535 registered refugees and migrants coming to Germany in 2015 so far. The country expects a total of around 800,000 people to seek asylum in Germany this year. And that’s just Germany. The entire continent of Europe is being inundated with refugees at a rate unprecedented in world history. This is no longer just a “refugee crisis.” This is a hijrah.
Hijrah, or jihad by emigration, is, according to Islamic tradition, the migration or journey of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib, later renamed by him to Medina, in the year 622 CE. It was after the hijrah that Muhammad for the first time became not just a preacher of religious ideas, but a political and military leader. That was what occasioned his new “revelations” exhorting his followers to commit violence against unbelievers. Significantly, the Islamic calendar counts the hijrah, not Muhammad’s birth or the occasion of his first “revelation,” as the beginning of Islam, implying that Islam is not fully itself without a political and military component.
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