Islam
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Accepting Australian values of egalitarianism and freedom of conscience won't happen for Muslim Australians as long as they are beholden to the imams and sheiks, the gatekeepers in Islam. How wide the gulf? Well, the day after Hamas stormed through southern Israel, kidnapping, butchering, raping and torturing hundreds of men, women and children, the front page of the Australian Muslim Times was jubilant
November 30, 2023
9 mins
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In light of the war being waged against Western countries by Islamists intent on replacing the democratic secular state with a theocratic dictatorship, and the tacit support this receives from moderate Muslims, any claim that Islam is first and foremost a religion, rather than an ideology of political imperialism, is self-evidently wrong .
November 2, 2023
13 mins
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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
March 8, 2021
16 mins
The latest
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Western culture’s right to survive derives not from its similarity to all other civilisations but from its superiority to them. Were it not superior, why are Western societies preferred by non-Westerners as models to emulate and as places of residence, relaxation and protection?
January 8, 2021
21 mins
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Political theorist Ernest Renan defined a nation as 'a soul, a spiritual principle' rooted in a 'rich legacy of memories' and, most of all, 'a desire to live together'. By those yardsticks, how France is to survive with such an alienated and frequently hostile minority is very much unresolved
December 17, 2020
9 mins
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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
December 13, 2020
25 mins
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Muslims individually should, without qualification, be treated as respectfully and kindly as everyone else. However, at another level, it is surely reasonable to ask whether Muslims collectively should be absolved of accountability for the bitter fruits of Islam?
January 22, 2018
16 mins
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The risk today in Australia is that rising community unease about terrorist attacks will turn into anger. That risk heightens when public spokespeople dissimulate. Honesty is important -- not the platitudes of niceness about Islam being a peaceful religion
November 14, 2017
12 mins
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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
November 2, 2017
21 mins
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There is a vast gulf in Arab societies between an elevated self-esteem based on an alleged superiority in religion and civilisation and, on the other hand, the constant denial of this superiority by the grim reality of curtailed liberties, intellectual atrophy and institutionalised corruption
March 29, 2017
23 mins
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While ISIS ransacks the Middle East and the intolerable fundamentalist Muslim communities in Western cities are ignored by the Left, Muslim children suffer immeasurably. They will continue to suffer until the Western world finally recognises that the underlying problem is Islam
February 1, 2017
20 mins
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I thought Australians didn’t like us. We were always taught that Islam is all about temptation and being tested to prove your faith is unshakeable. Outsiders were to be kept away, because they were only coming to test us or try to change us, so we shouldn’t talk or engage with them
October 31, 2016
33 mins