Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Saturday, July 11, 2009

VIDEO: Media and government responses in EU to the murder of an Egyptian woman in Germany ...

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The following discussion on the al Jazeera Inside Story program concerns media and government responses in Germany and wider Europe to the ...
Friday, June 12, 2009

COMMENT: More thoughts on free speech and hate-speech

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Geert Wilders, a Dutch far-Right wacko recently elected to the EU parliament, was invited to speak at a number of synagogues in the United S...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

COMMENT: Between free speech and hate speech ...

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Some readers will recall the enormous fuss surrounding Michael Backman’s column in The Age column, which contained two questionable remark...
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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...
Friday, November 14, 2008

CRIKEY: What does a free Kosovo mean to America?

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The fireworks are going off across Kosovo as the people of this ethnic Albanian nation celebrate their independence from Serbia. Europe’s n...
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Monday, August 18, 2008

OPINION: Justice the remedy required to help Bosnia heal ...

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Radovan Karadzic, the murderous Sarajevo psychiatrist, was the architect of a brutal war in Bosnia Herzegovina during the mid-1990s that cos...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

COMMENT: Europe's demographic winter?

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I haven't seen a white Christmas for years. Then again, I haven't held a handful of snow for quite sometime either. The last time I ...
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Saturday, July 28, 2007

CRIKEY: Talking Turkey, democracy and EU membership

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Turks have just elected an Islamist government. But we aren't talking about HAMAS here. Turkey’s Islamists combine free market economics...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

REFLECTION: Meeting Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a woman with a mission. The problem is that I’m not quite sure what her mission actually is. And to make matters more int...
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Saturday, March 10, 2007

OPINION: On averting another European Holocaust ...

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OVER the weekend, 360 Australians of all ages and faiths from across the country gathered at Old Parliament House for a deliberative poll o...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

COMMENT: Balancing the burqa

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Some readers will be aware of the mass-debate in Europe concerning the veil worn by some Muslim women. What few are aware of is that this is...
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Thursday, December 01, 2005

COMMENT: Turkey's PM sets foot in Australia & New Zealand

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Over the next fortnight, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be visiting Australia and New Zealand. His tour will be the first...
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