20 - Tamara Brouwer - Vrij Links: The Dutch Liberal Left

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.