The Latest From Mark Durie
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
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
Two horrific acts of murder took place in Europe this […]
Nov 29 2021
9 mins
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
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
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
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
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
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