How does it promote 'social cohesion' to give a platform to a preacher who states that a Muslim rapist who prays five times a day is morally superior to a fellow Muslim or a non-Muslim who harms no one but does not pray? How does such a preacher 'enrich society through the values of Islam'? They are questions to which the Preston Mosque, home to Victoria's largest Islamic congregation, should give serious consideration

Every human action, positive or negative, can ultimately be attributed to Allah, with the faithful believing a person’s eternal destiny is decreed forty days before that person is born. When a jihadi rampages, he sees himself having no more agency nor free will than the bloody knife in his hand

When sentencing a pair of jihadis, a NSW judge observed that the Islamic community needs to work out if Koranic exortations to violence are to be taken seriously or not. Predictably, there followed immediate denials that anything needs to change or, indeed, could be changed. It seems Islamic leaders could use a refresher course in their creed's most sacred text

The ABC's Sami Shah, author of 'The Islamic Republic of Australia' is a funny bloke -- quick with the rib-ticklers, but just plain peculiar about the creed he renounced. Apostate though he is, there lingers an ingrained prejudice against Jews, Christians, conservatives and demonstrable fact

Only Islam offers such high-level scriptural endorsement, prophetic example and legislative justification for the arranged marriages of young girls and much older men. The future of a friend’s fourteen-year-old neighbour in Melbourne demands that this abomination be addressed