Search Results: martyrdom
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Matheson
- 17 October 2007
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Following their humiliating World Cup Rugby loss to France earlier this month, New Zealanders are wondering whether the Garden of Eden really does lie on the other side of the try line.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Johnston
- 12 September 2007
An archive of Chris Johnston's cartoons.
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 13 June 2007
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We live in a world where the dogmas of economic rationalism and consumerism rule supreme. Rather than physical penance, today's asceticism involves a deliberate downsizing and an abandonment of infinite expansion as the measure of success.
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RELIGION
- Abraham Rushdi
- 27 February 2007
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The full text of "The selling of Islamic martyrdom and why some buy it", by Abraham Rushdi.
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RELIGION
- Abraham Rushdi
- 23 December 2006
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There is a strong argument that the Qur'an does not sanction the use of martyrdom operations. But it must be asked why radical interpretations of the Qur'an resonate with some Muslim communities.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Ashby
- 07 August 2006
For anybody who thinks that Germans were all willing or silent co-conspirators during the dreadful years of World War II, The Last Days of Sophie Scholl is a powerful and apparently accurate narrative of youthful martyrdom, a story that is redemptive for Germans.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Coffey
- 10 July 2006
Margaret Coffey reviews Sean McConville’s weighty tome, Irish Political Prisoners, 1848–1922, Theatres of War.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Hugh Dillon on Simone Weil and George Orwell
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INTERNATIONAL
- Sandie Cornish
- 29 May 2006
Why did Australians rally behind Van Nguyen yet appear to care little about the Bali Nine? The differing responses of the community to particular cases appears to be driven more by emotion and social identification than principles, or practical reason.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Poem by Peter Rose.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 24 April 2006
John Howard, the state premiers and the federal ALP are playing politics with terrorism.
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