Lars Hvidbergs digitale hukommelse
Posted in Islam on apr 26th, 2007
Before I went to Iran, I was so tired of hearing about Islam all the time in Danish media. The debate on the Danes and the Muslims have been going on for almost ten years and have only intensified and intensified. Ever since the Cartoon Crises I had personally gotten more and more critical of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on apr 24th, 2007
On the other hand: When we actually got to the airport the dark clouds seemed to clear up.
It started badly enough: My companion was beginning to get worried about the lenght of her coat/manteu, which is supposed to go to below the knee (and be square and ugly and not show the female form in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on apr 23rd, 2007
Departure: We took the taxi to the station to get to the airport. The taxidriver was a big and burly man, most likely a from refugee from war-torn Ex-Jugoslavia, a Bosnian, Serb or Croat. He looked at our bags and asked us where we were going. When we said “Iran” he laughed out loud, surprised [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on apr 22nd, 2007
I’ve hardly gone off to Iran before the Danish debate on the Islamic headscarf runs amok. Danish MP and theologian Søren Krarup insists that in some ways the islamic headscraft can be compared to the nazi swastika in the sense that both are symbols of an totalitarian ideology. Not the best analogy I’ve seen and [...]
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