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Irfan Yusuf is a lawyer, award-winning author, commentator and humorist. His comic memoir "Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo-fascist" was published in May 2009. He currently lives in Sydney where he is completing his doctorate.

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Monday, September 27, 2010

COMMENT: Arab Derangement Syndrome

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Shaykh Musa bin Maymun, also known as Moses Maimonides Arab Derangement Syndrome. Or ADS for short. An obsessive hatred of all things Ar...

Saturday, October 03, 2009

REVIEW: Correspondent's ugly truth

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Fit to Print: Misrepresenting the Middle East Joris Luyendijk Scribe, 243pp, $29.95 The Pope had just delivered his Regensburg address. The ...

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

CRIKEY: On the perils of vilification - the warped logic of banning al-Manar ...

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There are many good arguments for and against allowing the Lebanese Hezbollah-run TV station al-Manar to be broadcast in Australia. One goo...

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

CRIKEY: Obama self-flagellating in Africa?

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Some Africans weren’t happy that US President Barack Obama overlooked their country and selected Ghana for his first tour of sub-Saharan ...

Friday, January 16, 2009

CRIKEY: From peacenik to IDF promoter ...?

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How did an undergraduate peacenik morph into a spokesman for the Israeli army? The Guy Spigelman I remember was a long-haired hippie-type af...

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

COMMENT: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism ...

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I've been impressed with the work of British sociologist Frank Furedi ever since I saw him speak at a symposium on Enlightenment values...

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Irf: I was born some time back. I'm currently alive. No doubt one day I'll pass away or pass out, whichever comes first. Until then, I do lawyering and writing in Australia.

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