It seems so long ago that we thought of the Chinese as the “nice” communists, writes Peter Craven.
Muslims
Time for US to move past Arab and Muslim stereotypes
Why is there an insistence on addressing Arabs and Muslims as one unified body - that is, the so-called “Muslim world” - that behaves according to specific rationale; predisposed to respond to the same stimuli?
The Tampa that’s just docked in Camden
You’d think a proposal to build a school in a small semirural village on the outskirts of Sydney would be just another planning issue. The Council would advertise the plan, residents might raise objections based on parking or traffic or whatever. What could religion possibly have to do with it?
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!
Pauline Hanson and the new $2 Jews
Malcolm Fraser claimed late last year that the next federal election would be about Muslims. And if Pauline Hanson has her way, the Queensland Senate ballot will certainly place Muslims in the box seat. Not bad for a group who make up around 0.175% of the Sunshine State’s population.
Media briefs and TV ratings
There won’t be any twist in the C7 case …
What a Muslim looks like, by The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph plucks a generic picture to illustrate a specific Islamic story. What’s the deal? asks Irfan Yusuf.
