1:50 What is Vrij Links?
4:00 How does the left differ in the Netherlands from elsewhere in the West?
8:00 The difficulties of criticising religion and, in particular, Islam.
9:31 Shirin Musa (@ShirinMusa) and her organisation Femmes for Freedom and the dilemmas faced by liberal and secular Muslims and ex-Muslims.
13:21 Faith schools
17:16 Housing issues
18:35 What factors influence whether Muslim immigrants are more liberal or more conservative?
32:41 Climate change
37:32 Anti-Semitism
41:56 Dutch academia
44:12 The Dutch right wing
47:18 What the Dutch —especially the left—should focus on
You can find the Vrij Links manifesto in English here:
http://bit.ly/VrijLinksManifesto
For more about Femmes for Freedom:
https://www.femmesforfreedom.com/english/
Ali Amjad Rizvi’s book, The Atheist Muslim is available here:
http://bit.ly/TheAtheistMuslim
Boris van der Ham and Rachid Benhammou’s book Nieuwe Vrijdenkers is available here (in Dutch):
http://bit.ly/NewFreethinkersInDutch
For more on Humanists UK:
https://humanism.org.uk/
For more on Jordan Peterson’s talk in Amsterdam:
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/10/academics-protest-about-jordan-peterson-invite-he-calls-them-cowards/
Follow Tamara Brouwer on Twitter, her handle is @TamaraBrouwer1.
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