Keywords: Suicide Bombers
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INFORMATION
- Chris Bisset
- 15 October 2009
4 Comments
Kevin Rudd calls them the 'vilest form of people on the planet'. How dare these impoverished, yet slightly entrepreneurial fishermen let
their social consciousness blind them from considering the interests of
white Australians?
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
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'For me, talk of the death penalty evoked the young, frightened faces of
Scott and Emmanuel, as well as the laughing, haughty faces of Amrozi,
Mukhlas and Imam Samudra.' Full text from Frank Brennan's session on 'Killing People for Killing People', Ubud Writers Festival, 17 October 2008.
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MEDIA
- Kylie Baxter and Rebecca Barlow
- 05 September 2007
2 Comments
Last month, 13 people died in the Mississippi River collapse. On the same day in Iraq, a suicide bomber killed 14 when he drove an explosive laden car into a line of police. Media coverage suggests a disproportionate amount of Australian grief was directed towards the US victims.
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AUSTRALIA
- Suzanna Koster
- 11 July 2007
This week's operation against the radical clerics has prompted messages of support for Pakistan's General Musharraf from western allies. But in the eyes of the common Pakistanis the president has lost credibility forever.
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RELIGION
- 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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INTERNATIONAL
- 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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Ashby
- 30 October 2006
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The author of The Sound of One Hand Clapping and Gould’s Book of Fish has come up with a veritable novel "for our times". Here is a gripping tale of Australia (well, Sydney at least) in the midst of a terror campaign.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 24 July 2006
Lebanon is a state founded upon division. The fighting in the south of Lebanon is nothing new. Today, Hezbollah and Israel are joined in battle. The Middle East could be a very different place by the time this fight is finished.
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INTERNATIONAL
We have to take racism seriously, says Anthony Ham.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robert Phiddian
- 04 July 2006
Robert Phiddian reviews Ghassan Hage’s Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for hope in a shrinking society.
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RELIGION
- Abdullah Saeed
- 24 June 2006
September 11, 2001 changed the life of Muslims in the West, including Australia. Muslims in Australia today, their beliefs, values, practices and institutions, are under the microscope. There is a fear among many Muslims in Australia that is difficult to explain. In turn, Muslims are feared by many non-Muslim Australians, many of them Christians.
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AUSTRALIA
Mark Wakely looks at our instinct to build fences
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