Sheehan: 10 reasons why Australia isn’t racistAfter copping flack for a column on refugees, Paul Sheehan lists the top ten arguments for why Australia isn’t a xenophobic nation. Like, Howard let more Muslims in than anyone.
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Govt cultivates home-grown terrorists?
Token and superficial community engagement of Muslim and Arab communities by the government is simply encouraging home-grown terrorism in Australia, writes Taimor Hazou.
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.
Muslim cleric the YouTube hit of … 2003
The sudden flurry over some six-year-old video recordings must have left Abu Hamza more than a little bemused, writes Jonathan Green.
Domestic violence crosses cultural barriers
How can the problem be resolved when moronic tabloids across the land turn issues like domestic violence into yet another exercise in shoring up “Australian values”? asks Irfan Yusuf.
Another storm in a hijab
Another day, another hijab row. Shakira Hussein gets to the bottom of the debate.
Anti-Muslim protest takes Cronulla to the Gold Coast
If you needed any confirmation that Australia’s xenophobic and racist underbelly is still alive and well, then look no further than Queensland’s Gold Coast, writes Greb Barns.
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.
Why Muslim women need their own space: an insider’s view
One or two new Muslims would rather their mosque resembled a church, writes Keysar Trad.
The vile testing of the new terrorism powers
The revelations in the media of AFP agent Kemuel Lam Paktsun that the AFP were under instruction to charge as many suspects as possible to “test” the new terrorism powers have finally vindicated community concerns about the practices of this federal government when it comes to Islam and Muslims in Australia.
