Showing posts with label Muslim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muslim. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

CULTURE WARS: Is small-minded bigotry how we honour the Diggers? Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s tsunami in a teacup

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This concocted mass debate, like those before it and those to come, shows that we, as a nation, have no bloody idea about our values. ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

RELIGION: Great, polygamy-promoting Keysar Trad now ‘representing’ Australian Muslims

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Keysar Trad has finally hit the big time. Are his PR skills up to the challenge? Chicago comic Azhar Usman tells a story of...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

EGYPT: An Israeli view of the Muslim Brotherhood

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In 2006, Dr Israel Elad Altman wrote a paper for the Hudson Institute, a neo-Conservative thinktank, on the subject of Democracy, Elections ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

CRIKEY: Costello shows little faith in the possibilities of education ...

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In 1980, I started grade five at Sydney’s only Anglican cathedral school. My parents wanted to send me to a school which taught their value...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

COMMENT/MEDIA: The Times of London recycles Kerbaj?

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Richard Kerbaj, formerly of The Australian and author of numerous articles displaying his Lebanese-and-Arabic-speaking skills, has now move...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

COMMENT: Israeli columnist accuses Daniel Pipes of lying about Senator Obama ...

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Daniel Pipes has again tried to run some sort of crazy line about Senator Barack Obama's religious affiliation. In a column for the J...
Friday, July 18, 2008

OPINION: Risk of marginalisation in Western talk of the universal ...

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It takes a lot of guts for a non-Catholic to comment on World Youth Day, especially one like me who has an enormous soft spot for Catholics....
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

EVENTS: Imran Ahmad at the Sydney Writers' Festival

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Karachi's answer to James Bond? Imran Ahmad is author of the rather hilarious Muslim memoir Unimagined (which I've reviewed here). H...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

COMEDY: Israeli newspaper profiles American comic ...

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Israeli newspaper Haaretz profiles American comic Azhar Usman , co-founder of the Allah Made Me Funny tour. The report includes a video in...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

COMMENT: That bloody Moslem Obama ...

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Forget about actually being one. It's bad enough if your dad is one or if you even have a name that makes you sound like one. There was ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

REFLECTION: Vale John Ilhan

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John Ilhan died today of a suspected heart attack. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. (From God we come, to God we return.) He was jus...
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Sunday, September 17, 2006

OPINION: Tony Abbott's respectful message to Muslims

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The old man lay on his death bed in Melbourne. Decades of political and ideological struggle were reaching an end. At his side during these ...

OPINION: On Pompous Popes & Futile Protests

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Recently an Australian Catholic Cardinal expressed the view that the Koran preaches violence. His view was based on a partial reading of an ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2005

COMMENT: Howard Should Think Twice Before Listening To Muslim Peak Bodies

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Muslim community governance mirrors that of Australian government. Just as we have local councils, Muslims have local mosque societies. Thes...
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

MEDIA: The Power & The Passion: Mel Gibson's movie through my eyes ...

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I have admitted to a lot of things on this website. I have admitted the debauchery and corruption of my Mughal ancestors. I have admitted to...