Apologetics
PRIVILEGE, PATHOLOGY AND POWER
Wealth can be bad for your soul. That
Gun Violence Epidemic
Epidemic as Metaphor: Meaning and Morality in our Narratives of Gun Violence By PHILIPPA KOCH DEC 31, 2015 Much could be written, has been written, and still needs to be written about gun violence, the Second Amendment, responsible gun ownership, the gun lobby, and politicians. But here
Islam: Two Very Creative Views
Islamic State’s real aim is to topple Saudi Arabia November 26, 2015 Richard Bulliet By playing the caliph card, IS is bidding for pre-eminence in the Muslim world. Muslim pilgrims pray at Mecca. By targeting Shiites, the Islamic State is proving its Sunni credentials. The undeclared long-range goal of IS is to overthrow Saudi Arabia. […]
When terror strikes, Saudi Arabia evades responsibility
Laila Lalami November 18, 2015 We cannot defeat IS without defeating Wahhabi theology. And that means spending as much effort in defending liberal ideas. What happened in Paris on November 13 has happened before, in a shopping district of Beirut on November 12, in the skies over Egypt on October 31, at a cultural centre […]
Paris attacks were not ‘nihilism’ but sacred strategy
Posted: 16 Nov 2015 LEADING commentator Janet Daley’s article in Saturday’s Telegraph
How to confront this Islamo-Fascist plague
November 16, 2015 Bruce Hearn Mackinnon Enough is enough. We now need some straight talking, from mainstream Muslims but also from the leaders of the West.
National Anthems: an interesting comment on the ethics of abstaining
ANTHEM OUTRAGE REVEALS AUSTRALIA’S SPIRITUAL SHORTCOMINGS BY DR SIMON LONGSTAFF AO 02 NOVEMBER 2015 Australians wouldn’t have any problem with students skipping the anthem for reasons of physical health
Why the Paris climate treaty will be the flop of the year
The chief obstacle to such an agreement is exactly the same as it was at Kyoto in 1997 Political leaders, officials and green activists from all over the world will converge on Paris later this month, hoping for a treaty to save us all from further global warming
British doctor: I cannot forget Syria’s dead and dying children
I have seen the horrors of Syria. This Friday we can end them During heart-rending medical missions to Aleppo, I operated on the innocent victims of a war the West has failed to stop. This week’s peace conference must replace inaction with action The remains of the Great Mosque in Aleppo. The great minaret – […]
Australian Muslims ought to know they’re accepted and honoured…
Demon of division must be denied October 10, 2015
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