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RELIGION

Australia's burqa fallacy
- David Tittensor
- 03 August 2011
20 Comments
Just because we can debate something, doesn't mean we should. As with any right there is the responsibility to exercise free speech judiciously. A quick survey of the Muslim population in Australia highlights the absurdity of debating whether there is a place for the burqa in our society.
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RELIGION

Islam in denial over burqas
- Muhammad Izhar ul Haq
- 07 June 2011
16 Comments
Everything Western nations do is analysed by the Muslim world in the light of 'conspiracy theories'. Fanatics present the French burqa ban as a reflection of anti Islamic sentiment. In fact millions of Muslim women in France and elsewhere do not cover their faces.
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AUSTRALIA

Cronulla racism five years on
- Sarah Ayoub
- 06 December 2010
7 Comments
In a society where image and representation are everything, our perceptions of the other become blurred across boundaries, suburbs and ways of life. Then, on the off chance that we clash somewhere in the middle, we can't take the interference, and we riot.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD

Australia racist? Well, der!
- Bill Collopy
- 25 August 2010
11 Comments
X people work hard. Y people are natural athletes. Z people treat the world like they own it. Q people are violent. R people are drunkards. S people mistreat women. V people are queue jumpers. Racial generalising becomes racist only if we accept its false premise.
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2009: Boobs, booze and Muslim feminists
- Ellena Savage
- 04 January 2010
18 Comments
She'd rather be wearing jeans, but is compelled to dress like a Christmas tree for the Spring Racing Carnival. Her desire to be desired for the depth of her cleavage is nominated by the designs of men in her society. No wonder some Muslim women feel the hijab subverts patriarchy. November 2009
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AUSTRALIA

Boobs, booze and Muslim feminists
- Ellena Savage
- 03 November 2009
21 Comments
She'd rather be wearing jeans, but is compelled to dress like a Christmas tree for the Spring Racing Carnival. Her desire to be desired for the depth of her cleavage is nominated by the designs of men in her society. No wonder some Muslim women feel the hijab subverts patriarchy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Chris Johnston cartoon archive
- Chris Johnston
- 12 September 2007
An archive of Chris Johnston's cartoons.
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AUSTRALIA

Let's share the burden of overcoming Muslim extremism
- Saeed Saeed
- 25 July 2007
3 Comments
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said recently: "Muslim extremists are a Muslim issue - not ours." The fault with this view is that it transfers ownership of this challenge from the elected leaders to a minority group who simply don’t have the resources to deal with such a global crisis.
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RELIGION

Book Review: Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos
- Frank Brennan
- 05 June 2007
6 Comments
There can be no peace unless believers and atheists share an equal place in the public square of a free and democratic society.
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AUSTRALIA

Increased politicisation of the hijab
- Julian Madsen
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
Heated disputes arose in Egypt late last year following comments by the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni that the rising number of Egyptian women wearing the Islamic headscarf or hijab was a "regressive" trend.
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RELIGION

Throw out the baby, keep the bathwater
- Scott Stephens
- 11 December 2006
2 Comments
Instead of all those Baroque paintings of the baby Jesus in arms, the work of art that best captures the spirit of Christianity is arguably Andres Serrano's controversial Piss Christ.
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RELIGION

The battle of ideas within Islam
- Julian Madsen
- 13 November 2006
6 Comments
For many, the War on Terror equals a War against Islam. Yet there is a real battle of ideas within Islam that is rarely heard by the West.
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