Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2017

RELIGION: Why are conservatives so damn obsessed with Islam?

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From what we know about Omar Mateen, this massacre was not an act of Islamic State-sponsored terrorism.   When it comes to fighting nas...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

COMMENT: Things I learned about the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) over the years

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There's this scary creature in Egypt that has spread its testi ... woops ... tentacles across the world. It's a huge conspiracy that...
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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Monday, July 06, 2009

BOOKS: Robert Baer on the Iranian superpower ...

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I’ve just finished reading a ripper-of-a-book by former CIA operative Robert Baer about Iran. The book is entitled The Devil We Know: Dealin...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

REVIEW: Ambitious cultural journey loses its way ...

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A Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands By Aatish Taseer Text Publishing, 323pp, $34.95 WE all inhabit the same pla...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

COMMENT: The Oz gives space to nonsensical analysis ...

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Some years ago, I had an interesting exchange in Crikey with a former opinion editor of The Australian concerning what I saw as his refus...
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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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Saturday, January 24, 2009

HATEWATCH: Yet even more great moments from Tim Blair's News Ltd blog ...

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The Abu Hamza pseudo-controversy has provided the nazified imbeciles congregating around the News Limited blob ... woops ... blog of Tim Bl...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

VIDEO: All-American sharia ...

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Noah Feldman Colbert at Christmas Colbert Christmas DVD Green Screen Bill O'Reilly Inter...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

CRIKEY: Shame - the secret behind Amrozi's smile ...

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I never realised just how much ordinary Indonesians hated the Bali bombers until I actually went there. It was January 2006, and I was on an...
Friday, September 05, 2008

COMMENT: The Jewel of Medina finds a publisher ...

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Well, hurrah for all fans of free speech, blasphemy and all that other nasty decadent Western stuff. It looks like Sherry Jones, author of a...
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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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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

COMMENT: UK neo-Con mass debaters withdraw from debate

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As this is a family-friendly blog, I will refrain from using too much sexual innuendo. A number of allegedly conservative Englishmen have be...
Sunday, June 08, 2008

UPDATE: Stuff recently published ...

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OK, in case anyone gives a stuff, here's what I think of 2 recently published books which provide some analysis on what people living i...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

OPINION: Griffith IRU controversy ...

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Al-Qaeda's latest recruits showing off their camouflage and weapons ... Attempts to whip up hysteria over Islamic issues It's good t...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

CRIKEY: Ignorance of Kerbajian proportions exposed ...

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Dicky Kerbaj makes it a hat-trick, today managing to extract his third article on Griffith University’s Islamic Research Unit (GIRU). This t...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

MEDIA/SATIRE: It's time to expose the extremists at Griffith University ...

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The Australian continues with its witchhunt of the Griffith Islamic Research Unit (GIRU), this time with both an article and editorial cl...
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