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Were you Charlie?

Kudos to all the newspapers who had the guts to reprint the Charlie Hebdo cartoons on their front page. There were far too few of them. A couple of hours after the horrible attack in Paris, I was still hoping for a Charlie Effect: “If you kill someone for a cartoon, you will see it reprinted the next day in… Lees verder »Were you Charlie?

Open Letter to Liberal Muslims

(first published in De Morgen on Sep 13, translated and extended) Dear liberal Muslim, I address this open letter to all of you who profess a tolerant and peaceful Islam; who have no wish to impose their religious views on others; who are prepared to live in peace with Christians, atheists, Hindus and Jews; who endorse the bedrock principles of a… Lees verder »Open Letter to Liberal Muslims