Keywords: Osama Bin Laden
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
We think it is wrong for foreign states to impose the death penalty on Aussie drug traffickers and drug mules. But we apply different reasoning to non-Australians facing death at the hands of the state. The practical, hands on, Aussie approach often plays fast and loose with moral reasoning about what is right and wrong.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
Brian Doyle said 'no' to an editor's request in the aftermath of September 11: "The only proper thing in your mouth at such a time is prayer." His kids had to reflect back to him: "Well, dad, you are always lecturing us about how if God gives you a talent and you don’t use that talent that’s a sin."
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MEDIA
- Morag Fraser
- 16 April 2007
13 Comments
Jones' reflexes on air are assertive and territorial. A 'power of one' he may be, but he also makes a powerful appeal to the tribal in all of us. When we retreat into the tribe we lose the chance to experience of the kindness of strangers.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 08 March 2007
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Jesus Christ was put to death, ostensibly because he ate with sinners and tax collectors. We can have good meetings with bad people, and bad meetings with good people. Being able to tell the difference is what reflects our moral substance.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 February 2007
19 Comments
It sounds nice. Until we begin to name names. Adolf Hitler, Jozef Stalin, Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden. These are monsters. To suggest that God loves them is to sentimentalise God, and to remove any firm basis for morality.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 27 February 2007
The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last Wednesday has the potential to be a major turning point in Iraq for both the civilian government, and for the coalition forces. What happens next could shape Iraq's future.
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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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AUSTRALIA
As the leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful countries gathered in St Petersburg this month, a few hundred activists were meeting in a dusty frontier town 350km beyond Timbuktu, for what they dubbed ‘the Poor People’s Summit’.
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MEDIA
Joshua Puls meets the BBC’s John Simpson, broadcaster and war correspondent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Siobhan Jackson, Brett Evans, Morag Fraser, Marcelle Mogg, Allan James Thomas
- 06 July 2006
Reviews of the films About Schmidt; Standing in the Shadows of Motown; Taking Sides; Chicago and Bowling for Columbine.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2006
Professor Saeed and Fr Madigan make religious dialogue look easy. You would almost wonder what is the problem.
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