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The weblog of Irfan Yusuf, lawyer and writer who was once a small-c conservative but is now politically left right out. His often irreverent take on things appears in some 15 newspapers in Australia and New Zealand as well as online. His book "Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo-fascist" was published in May 2009.

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Portrait of Shaykh Musa bin Maymoun al-Qurtubi
... also known as Maimonides, perhaps the greatest Andalusian physician & philosopher who brought two close and great unitarian faiths closer even closer ...

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Interesting websites ...

  • Centre for Muslim States & Societies
  • Beyond Empathy
  • Juan Cole - Informed Comment
  • Melbourne University Up Close Podcast
  • International Centre for Islam & Pluralism (Indonesia)
  • Global Collaborative
  • Tabsir - Insight on Islam & the Middle East
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  • Middle East Strategy At Harvard (MESH)
  • Slap mad Michelle Malkin in the face ...
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  • Iraq Veterans Against The War
  • Aaron Hughes - Iraq War Veteran & Artist
  • Butterflies & Wheels - Fighting Fashionable Nonsense
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  • Rabbis for Human Rights

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  • Clive James
  • Daniel Moore
  • Edward Said
  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
  • Mohsin Hamid
  • Nawa El Saadawi
  • Pamela K. Taylor
  • Peter Fitzsimons
  • PJ O'Rourke (unoffical tribute site)
  • Reza Aslan
  • Tariq Ramadan
  • William Dalrymple

Endorsement from Mr Andrew Bolt

Endorsement from Mr Andrew Bolt
Columnist for the Herald-Sun ...
Leftist lawyer Irfan Yusuf has a dream ... this goose ...
(From various intelligent blog posts.)

Endorsement from Sheik YerMami

Endorsement from Sheik YerMami
One of Daily Telegraph Tim Blair's sources
Serial dreck-blogger … muselmanic master of spin … the Pretend-Christian …Australia’s sharia-shyster … Islamo agit prop … If the Fed’s are not onto him yet, concerned readers should bring it to their attention. Irfan should at least be on a watch list. His incitement could have worked. The stirring could have resulted in hundreds, if not thousands of Yusuf’s co-religionists running amok, smashing stuff and killing people … a fanatical Muslim … We know that the Manchurian candidate Hussein Obama is a Muzz and a fraud. We know what he represents, and we don’t want any of it.

(Sheik Yer'mami is shown on the bottom right hand corner of the cartoon above which was taken from his website. The person seated at the computer wearing the ceremonial hat is myself pictured as an orthodox Jew. My, what charming sources the Opinion Editor of the Daily Telegraph has!)

Endorsement from Mr Daniel Pipes

Endorsement from Mr Daniel Pipes
Chronic sectarian bigot ...
A nasty attack by an Australian blogger named Irfan Yusuf has appeared
... Yusuf jumps on me ...

(From an update on Mr Pipes' blog dated 21 February 2008. No, Mr Pipes, I would never jump on you. I just don't find you physically attractive!)

Further Endorsement from Mr Daniel Pipes ...

Further Endorsement from Mr Daniel Pipes ...
Promoter of the "Obama was a Muslim" smear ...
... should send a signal to responsible media everywhere to decline his tendentious writings.
(I wonder if, by "responsible", he means that tiny fringe of newspapers and websites happy to print his claims that Barack Obama is a Muslim apostate and attended a madressa? Or that wearing a sarong is "a garment associated with Muslims"? Or that extremists make up 10-15% of the Muslim world population? Well, Mr Pipes, I wouldn't want to pollute my reputation by writing for those kinds of media. You can have them all, mate!)

Endorsement from Dr Merv Bendle

Endorsement from Dr Merv Bendle
The ABC Unleashed website then published an online article by the Muslim spokesman, Irfan Yusuf ... ridiculing those who raised the possibility of a terrorist connection to the bushfires. Even the police became involved ...

(From an article defending the "forest jihad" thesis published in the ever-wacky National Observer. Wow. The police are in cahoots with with a Muslim spokesman that no Muslim organisation has appointed to speak on its behalf! Perhaps Dr Bendle's article should have been titled "Bendit Like Bendle".)

Endorsement from the editorial writer of The Australian newspaper

Endorsement from the editorial writer of The Australian newspaper
... self-styled Muslim advocate Irfan Yusuf, a young lawyer of Pakistani extraction ... his shrewd legal mind ...
(From an editorial published in The Australian on 7 December 2006. The likely author of that editorial is no longer enjoying the ultimate in job security - working for Dr Brendan Nelson!)

Endorsement from Mark Steyn

Endorsement from Mark Steyn
Theatre critic
... I may be coming up with the update for the Protocols for the Eldersof Zion, I could get so apoplectic about that, I could keel over from a massivecoronary and be dead on the floor, and there would be noproblem with my hate speech anymore!
(Response to a question I put to the author during the Big Ideas Forum organised by the Centre for Independent Studies on Monday 14 August 2006. I admit that I mischievously replied: "Be my guest". Moments later, some poor fellow nervously stood up and blurted out: "... the Muslim gentleman at the rear of the room who didn't introduce himself made some comments which I think most people found rather extreme, including the request, half-way through Mark's response that he drop dead. Those are sentiments that that gentleman has never expressed in some of his columns which have been printed in the Sydney Morning Herald". He's right. Why would I waste Herald readers' time with a mention of some Canadian theatre critic?)

Endorsement from Janet Albrechtsen

Endorsement from Janet Albrechtsen
John Howard's favourite columnist
Irfan, Irfan, how predictable to see you here. I understand you do not agree with my views but your intellectual dishonesty is really very funny. After our last encounter, I no longer take your jibes seriously.
(Published in Ms Albrechtsen's blog, 07 March 07, 6:02am. Wow, she got up so early to respond! I'm flattered ...)

Endorsement from the Hon Laurie Ferguson MHR

Endorsement from the Hon Laurie Ferguson MHR
Federal Member for Reid
... the rather exotic coalition candidate who was supplied for my seat, Mr Irfan Yusuf. He did, of course, make a major contribution to public debate in this country ...


(House of Representatives Hansard, 13 March 2002. No hard feelings, Laurie, though I think your hairstyle is somewhat more exotic than mine!)

Endorsement from the Hon Kelvin Thomson MHR

Endorsement from the Hon Kelvin Thomson MHR
Federal Member for Wills
A woman by the name of Irfan Yusuf in the Canberra Times on 10 October described the Prime Minister as condemning:
"… certain isolationist practices of Muslims before defending a fringe Christian sect with even more isolationist practices."
(House of Representatives Hansard, 01 November 2006. Kelvin, understand this well: I ain't nobody's bitch!)

Endorsement from Robert Spencer

Endorsement from Robert Spencer
Screaming Sectarian Super-Bigot
I am "far-right" the way Geert Wilders ... is

... I can see why Irfan Yusuf got the 2007 Allen & Unwin Iremonger
award for public affairs writing: he's slick.
(Comment on a book review I wrote for The Australian. Mate, you said it. Who am I to argue with you?)

Endorsement from the Hon. Bronwyn Bishop MHR

Endorsement from the Hon. Bronwyn Bishop MHR
Federal Member for Mackeller and backbencher for life
It has come to my attention today that an opinion piece has been authored and distributed by a Muslim activist, known for his offensive behaviour to women, by the name of Mr Irfan Yousef (sic.). He has made a number of scurrilous, ridiculous and inaccurate statements concerning me. For the record, I totally refute his statements but, as he has not resorted to bomb throwing, I guess we can handle his accusations.
(House of Representatives Hansard, 6 September 2005, 3 days before my appointment as UNIFEM White Ribbon Day Ambassador campaigning to eliminate all forms of violence against women.)

Endorsement from Tim Blair ...

Endorsement from Tim Blair ...
YUSTUFFED ... Via Sheik Yermami ... local lardmunch Irfan Yusuf ... perhaps Irfan should fight a war he has a chance of winning. Like suing clothing manufacturers who claim “one size fits all”.
(From Mr Blair's charming blog hosted on the Daily Telegraph website. It's great to see Blair receiving and acknowledging material from a fellow travellor.)

Another endorsement from Tim Blair

Another endorsement from Tim Blair
Resident News Limited buffoon (at least for now)
... there's another thing besides manufacturing outrage that gets Irf out of bed in the morning. I've heard it's a Caterpillar 966G Series II loading
shovel.

(Comment left on another blog. Charming stuff, Tim.)

Endorsement from Seyfi Seyit

Endorsement from Seyfi Seyit
... novice writer Irfan Yusuf ... after forcing myself to read [his] book I found it irreverent, blasphemous ...

(Review by Mr Seyit of Once Were Radicals in Issue 3 of The Aussie Mossie newsletter published on an irregular basis, usually to coincide with Mr Seyit's latest government funding application.)

Endorsement from Daniel Lewis

Endorsement from Daniel Lewis
Author of numerous racist letters to the editor ...
Irfan is not only a liar ... coward and intellectual fraud ... I would have thought the right-hand sidebar of his blog would be an excellent place for another quote from his growing list of 'admirers'.
(Danny-boy, thanks for the suggestion! And keep those nasty letters to the editor going. Would you like me to reproduce some here?)

Endorsement from Andrew Landeryou

Endorsement from Andrew Landeryou
A chap having some association with Melbourne University Union.
Pakistani born Sydney lawyer Irfan Yusuf ... make[s] us wonder why Crikey and other publications continue to pay him money for his race-baiting and erroneous words of hate.
(Well, Andrew, maybe it's because I'm not obsessed with people's ethnicity or where they were born.)

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