“Veiled women” have long been represented as either helpless victims in need of rescue or as dangerous agents of an alien ideology in need of discipline.
Islam in australia
British anti-Islamists to march on parliament
A far-right fringe group modelled on violent English Defence League is gathering support for a rally at Melbourne’s Federation Square next Sunday to protest “Islamic extremists” and prevent Australia becoming “another Europe”.
The dodgy reporting fuelling Islamic tension
False claims made in the media about the Dr Haneef case were never corrected and have fuelled racial tension as his legal case continues.
Somali politics is just as much about clan as it is religion
Some reporting and analysis of today’s raids in The Oz of an alleged terrorist group showed a laughable ignorance of Somali and/or Muslim cultures.
Sheik Hilaly fights for his life in Lakemba
It seems likely that Sheik Hilaly’s days as senior imam at Lakemba are numbered, writes Irfan Yusuf.
Of Tupperware and mosques
I think men and women can both pray in the main hall without risking the kind of physical intimacy that Keysar worries will attract the wrong kind of convert, writes Shakira Hussein.
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Gerard Henderson: Crikey should be able to do better than this … last days of John Howard? … what about the real Indigenous issues? … no irony in the Australia-Canada comparison …
The Middle Eastern Gerard Henderson
Imagine writing a monograph on Islam in Australia: Democratic bipartisanship in action without interviewing a single Muslim, and launching the monograph in … of all places … the United Kingdom!
