ROTTERDAM – Why is it that refugees make it so damn hard to be pro-immigration? God forbid that another asshat drives into a group of people. A 23-year-old Afghan this time according to news sources. Or not. They might have arrested the wrong guy. I’ve been fascinated by radicalisation for a while now- I […]
ROTTERDAM – The Quetta hospital in Pakistan got bombed today by a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban called Jamaat-ul-Ahrar. At least 64 people died, and by now even the righteous calls for attention to terrorism and its victims in far-away deserts have seized. I’ve heard them say apathy is the curse of postmodern civilisation, […]
ROTTERDAM – .. and there’s not much love to go around. It’s a lyric from the Land of Confusion written by Genesis. The mass-murders in Paris last weekend left all of us in horror. It didn’t quite feel like a terrorist attack and more like a declaration of war. A show of might and violence […]
ZANZIBAR – The campfire sparked and moved with and against the wind. I had remarked that all men are obsessed with fire. Whenever there’s one, we feel the need to poke it constantly, to make it a bigger fire, as if we automatically feel responsible for not letting it die. I drank my overly expensive […]
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