Keywords: Islamic Schools
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P.S. Cottier
- 17 November 2009
2 Comments
They might not throw beer bottles and therefore shatter the tone of the area. Strip clubs might not reveal themselves to expose odd bumps hidden in the area.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 12 November 2009
4 Comments
Hillary Clinton worked hard on a three day charm offensive encouraging Pakistanis to engage in a new trusting relationship with the US. But Pakistanis cannot trust
themselves at the moment, let alone the world superpower which has
funded Taliban militants.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 20 July 2009
14 Comments
Many in the media have labelled the bombings in Jakarta as the work of jihad. When we understand the Qur'anic verses that advocate jihad in their proper historical context, it is clear that the Qur'an expresses acceptance and respect for non-Muslims.
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AUSTRALIA
Perhaps it's an omen: election day in Somalia, and the first voter to approach the polling station wears an Obama t-shirt. Elections, and the act of voting, are a powerful affirmation of one's ability to stand and be counted. For refugees, it is all the more significant.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 01 May 2009
14 Comments
The deployment by Western nations of more troops to Afghanistan will serve to exacerbate the Taliban's rising influence across the border in Pakistan. The history of Jesuit involvement in Pakistan reveals an alternative solution.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 July 2008
11 Comments
Media coverage before a big event, be it World Youth Day or the Beijing Olympics, always focuses on defects and ideological conflict. Controversies regarding state funding and anti-annoyance laws aside, the young people celebrated WYD in their own way.
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AUSTRALIA
Kevin Rudd's visit to Jakarta today and continued inter-cultural dialogue could do much to enrich Australia's friendship with Indonesia. Indonesia's labelling as a basket case of corruption and terrorism denies the significant strides the country has taken since its democratic reformation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 11 July 2007
There may be ideological sympathy on the part of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah for Al Qaeda, but there has been no direct affiliation between between the two groups since 2003. Al Qaeda, it seems, has dismissed JI as ineffectual—they keep getting caught.
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RELIGION
- Peter Matheson
- 13 June 2007
The question of whether New Zealand should see itself as a Christian country has bubbled up in an unexpected way. The word ‘Christian’, itself, has become, almost unusable, associated in the public mind with fundamentalist bookshops and the like, or with short lived political parties which tout moralistic codes.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joseph Camilleri
- 18 May 2007
In light of the federal election, Joe Camilleri considers the questions that have yet to be asked
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RELIGION
- 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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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 18 September 2006
George Bush, John Howard and others insist that we are winning the long war against terrorists, and, perhaps by body count they are right. But there is evidence that the way we are fighting the war has massively increased popular sympathy for such people in some parts of the world.
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