Showing posts with label The Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Age. Show all posts
Thursday, September 23, 2010

COMMENT: Race and religion ...

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A number of people have responded to my piece published in The Age today by claiming that I have confused race and religion. The confusion ...
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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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Monday, July 06, 2009

OPINION: The fuss over the burqa is out of kilter ...

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Sarkozy's focus on a tiny minority who cover up risks alienating most Muslims, writes Irfan Yusuf. IN ABOUT six months, a cross-party Fr...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

PAKISTAN: Some comments on the recent Lahore blasts ...

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Before I start, here are a few admissions. I haven't been to Pakistan since 1994/95. During that trip, I travelled only to Karachi and L...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

CRIKEY: Mafia scandal should make O'Farrell and Turnbull very nervous ...

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Well it’s been a bad few weeks for the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party. Brendan Nelson decided to POQ, his parting message to many of hi...
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 10, 2009

OPINION: Hit with the culture club ...

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(This article was first published in ABC Unleashed on on 22 February 2008.) Without meaning to sound like Forrest Gump (the character fro...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

OPINION: The great faction fiction ...

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The "war of the civilisations" is nothing more than a troublesome myth. INFLUENTIAL Harvard University politics professor Sam...
Monday, October 20, 2008

OPINION: Calling the prejudice around Barack Obama by its true name ...

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WATCHING the US election from a distance, it's hard not to be convinced that many American voters may have lost the plot. Over 40 milli...
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...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

UPDATE: More of my tendentious writing ...

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A certain tabloid columnist recently described my writing as tendentious . According to the AskOxford website , the word "tendentious...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

CRIKEY: On ACMA, al-Manar TV and the search for consistent treatment of all forms of racism ...

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I know this won’t make me very popular in some circles. But when it comes to combating racism and sectarian prejudice in broadcasting, co...
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