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Mark Durie

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  • Sydney Sermons, Islamic Incitement

    Since the October 7 atrocity, anti-Jewish sermons have been delivered in Sydney mosques. These have attracted much critical comment in the Australian media, but not from NSW Police, who have found no case to answer. Something needs to change – something that goes to the very root of how we understand Islam in our spociety

    Jun 10 2024

    12 mins

  • Sydney Sermons, Islamic Incitement

    Since the October 7 atrocity, anti-Jewish sermons have been delivered in Sydney mosques. These have attracted much critical comment in the Australian media, but not from NSW Police, who have found no case to answer. Something needs to change – something that goes to the very root of how we understand Islam in our spociety

    May 07 2024

    12 mins

  • The Theological Drivers of Jihad

    Two horrific acts of murder took place in Europe this […]

    Nov 29 2021

    9 mins

  • Australian Imams Stand Up for Sharia

    Will Australian lawmakers intervene to restrict the damage caused by some of sharia's provisions, including their impact on women and children? Limiting the application of Islamic law while promoting respect for Muslims as humans with human rights like anyone else represents a daunting challenge

    Mar 08 2021

    16 mins

  • Macron’s Vain Hope for an Enlightened Islam

    The French president wants a Muslim-led training body he believes will bring forth “a form of Islam in our country that is compatible with Enlightenment values”. Meanwhile, entirely unmoved by the Prime Minister's optimism, Muslim bus drivers continue denying admission to women they deem immodestly dressed

    Dec 13 2020

    25 mins

  • The Eco-Fascist Ideology of the Christchurch Killer

    Almost three months have passed since Brenton Tarrant entered the first of two Christchurch mosques and opened fire, leaving 51 dead. Inevitably and immediately he was branded a racist right-winger, as if that tag is sufficient to describe an admirer of totalitarian China bent on offering the blood of innocents to the greater glory of Gaia

    Jun 08 2019

    19 mins

  • The Christchurch Killer’s Anti-Humanist Ideology

    As with the ideologies that spawned so many genocides and massacres through the twentieth century and into this one, Brenton Tarrant’s weighing of individuals' lives as of no account against tribal fealty and group identity challenges us to promote something better. To achieve this we must first take our heads out of the sand

    Mar 31 2019

    19 mins

  • Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia

    There is not a Bible, Jewish or Christian, containing such incendiary commentary as populates page after page of 'The Noble Qur’an', which for four years has preached to the faithful in Canberra Airport's prayer room. The ideology it promotes is violent jihad. It is a book to start a war

    Nov 02 2017

    21 mins

  • Minister for Islamic Apologetics

    Other than the need to discredit her party's former leader and push what might be termed the Turnbull Doctrine of warm-and-cuddly relativism, what in the name of Heaven could have possessed the Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs to present Islamic dogma as incontrovertible fact?

    Dec 27 2015

    4 mins