You don’t need dodgy receipts to prove dodgy books are sold by certain dodgy Muslims. Likewise, we have no need for dodgy conservative thinktanks using dodgy excuses to hide their dodgy sectarian prejudices.
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You don’t need dodgy receipts to prove dodgy books are sold by certain dodgy Muslims. Likewise, we have no need for dodgy conservative thinktanks using dodgy excuses to hide their dodgy sectarian prejudices.
After two decades of civil war, and having the largest population of internal refugees of any country on earth, you’d think Sudanese Muslims have far more pressing issues to worry about than the name of a teddy bear.
For many Australians, coverage of “Crazy” John Ilhan’s funeral at a prominent mosque will be the first time they will learn that the man behind one of Australia’s most successful business brands was a practising Muslim.
Six years after September 11, 2001, we would do well to remember a particular victim, one who was portrayed as a terrorist before his name was cleared.
Sixty years after the partition that created India and Pakistan, Irfan Yusuf explores why some of the barriers between nations never really kept people apart.
Perhaps those Muslims who waste their time and energy banning books and threatening authors have finally realised this only makes these authors damned rich!
Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist recently visited Australia, and I was fortunate to have the chance of catching up with him to discuss the main character in his novel.
Clearly all Muslims are moderate, but some are more extremely moderate (or moderately extreme) than others.
A sensitivity against racism in the US has created a backlash against “shock jocks” such as Don Imus. The same racism against Lebanese and Middle Eastern minorities in Australia goes unpunished.
The ethno-religious dynamic among Australian Muslims, along with politics, has compounded the potential removal of controversial imam Sheikh Taj el-din Al Hilaly

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