by AJDS | Feb 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Criticism and critical (‘higher criticism’) scholarship about religion and religious texts is par for the course, and expected in an educated, liberal, and secular society. [The attached image is taken from the Australian Islamist Monitor Website just to...
by AJDS | Feb 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Criticism and critical (‘higher criticism’) scholarship about religion and religious texts is par for the course, and expected in an educated, liberal, and secular society. [The attached image is taken from the Australian Islamist Monitor Website just to...
by AJDS | Feb 26, 2011 | Editorials
A campaign to bar a Muslim prayer group from using an East St Kilda Community House for one hour a week is being driven by extremists with an anti-Muslim agenda. The public controversy was manufactured by a group calling themselves the Q Society. The Q Society...
by AJDS | Feb 26, 2011 | Editorials
A campaign to bar a Muslim prayer group from using an East St Kilda Community House for one hour a week is being driven by extremists with an anti-Muslim agenda. The public controversy was manufactured by a group calling themselves the Q Society. The Q Society...
by AJDS | Feb 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
This is all very local politics, but another test for diversity and freedom of peaceful association. There is a planning application to increase the size of meetings so that a Muslim prayer group can meet for a couple of hours a week in St Kilda, Victoria at a...
by AJDS | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Everyone has an opinion, and there was a recent event at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas at the State Library of Victoria. You can watch the video/podcast via this
by AJDS | Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
This time, Antony Loewenstein has had an unfair go at the NZ Prime Minister John Key in his blog, labeling him as Jewish and then being critical of his views on the Middle East. Key’s mother is Jewish, but he isn’t, is an agnostic, but goes to Church with...
by AJDS | Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
This time, Antony Loewenstein has had an unfair go at the NZ Prime Minister John Key in his blog, labeling him as Jewish and then being critical of his views on the Middle East. Key’s mother is Jewish, but he isn’t, is an agnostic, but goes to Church with...
by AJDS | Feb 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Palestine Papers, as revealed by Al-Jazeerah and the Guardian, are explosive evidence about the state of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, leaning over backwards to break a deal—a deal that never went ahead and has even less chance of...