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Keywords: Muslim Women

AUSTRALIA

Voting with instinct
- Tony Smith
- 31 October 2007
1 Comment
Some political professionals would like to see the state behave just like the market, operating as a heartless machine for maximising outcomes. However, truly rational electors realise that if the system is to be imbued with compassion and humanity, the heart must play a role no less important than the head.
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AUSTRALIA

JI's Al Qaeda link a myth
- 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

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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RELIGION

Muslim at the heart of an Indonesian Christian office
- Greg Soetomo
- 27 February 2007
2 Comments
When I reflect on this conversation, I am also struck by how different what I see in daily life is from what I read and watch in the media about about Muslim militants, the clash between Christians and Muslims, fundamentalism, or terrorism. Every age has its own false ideas. In our time, it is the notion that identifies Islam with hostility and aggression.
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RELIGION

Islamic elites’ construction of Islamic martyrdom
- Abraham Rushdi
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
The full text of "The selling of Islamic martyrdom and why some buy it", by Abraham Rushdi.
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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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INTERNATIONAL

Palestinian family facing years of upside-down politics
- Jan Forrester
- 27 February 2007
Makloube—which means 'upside down' in Arabic—refers to steaming hot cauliflower, eggplant and meat upended on a bed of rice. It's also a metaphor for the political reality in which ordinary Palestinians will be locked for many years to come.
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AUSTRALIA

The other Islamic revolution
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 27 February 2007
3 Comments
A quiet revolution is being carried out by ordinary men and women who happen to be Muslim, but are otherwise undistinguishable from the rest of the community. Muslims living in Australia don't have to turn their backs to religion to be good citizens, indeed they're turning to the essentials of their faith to fulfil their citizenship.
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RELIGION

The selling of Islamic martyrdom and why some buy it
- Abraham Rushdi
- 23 December 2006
1 Comment
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

Personal odyssey in the steps of three Gobi women
- James Massola
- 23 December 2006
1 Comment
After discovering books by three women, a Lonely Planet editor from Melbourne resolves to follow in their footsteps, in the hope of giving some purpose to her aimless wanderlust.
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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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