Kayser Trad is the typical Muslim extremist that is dragged out to flog controversial ideas. But why aren’t the voices of socially conservative Muslims who don’t engage in hate speech being heard? asks Shakira Hussein.
Muslim communities
A lesson in contrasts: how one riot was reported
Skin colour makes a huge difference on the language used, when it comes to how violent street riots are reported in the media. Better to be a London Nazi skinhead than a Sydney Lebanese Muslim.
Racism growing in the Cocos Islands
The tiny Australian territory of the Cocos Islands is in trouble, with rising racial tensions and high unemployment. However, its strategic geographical position means that the federal government is beginning to take notice.
The Oz determined to keep Muslims on the front page
The Oz may have exaggerated the government’s intentions a little with the headline “Rudd’s quest for true blue Muslims”, writes Shakira Hussein.
Can we please stop talking about Muslims?
The more than $440 million that the previous government wasted on the “Muslim Community Reference Group” can now be spent on a smaller group made up of seven that includes academics, business and sports people. Problem solved, writes Keysar Trad.
Rudd must tackle Islamophobia
Kevin Rudd must make tacking the growing problem of Islamophobia in Australia a key priority in government, writes Julie Posetti.
‘Us’ and ‘them’ leaves Muslims wedged in fear
Initial results of a national fear survey conducted by Professor Mark Balnaves and Anne Aly of Edith Cowan University show that “[w]here non-Muslim Australians may have a fear of travel on planes, Muslims had a fear of going out of the house, of going out into the community”. Post-Haneef, this is certainly the case.
The Oz isn’t alert but wants us to be alarmed
Just who are The Australian’s “national security sources” that are prepared to name imams and speculate on young pockets of “ideological sleeper cells”?
