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Young people should expect and demand respect however they dress. They need to be realistic not only about people who show no restraint in indulging their sexual urges, but also media treatment that is designed to titillate audiences and confirm prejudices.
Manipulating narrowly conceived notions of national values simply triggers a storm of prejudice, while undercutting efforts to improve conceptions of the nation’s Muslim community.
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.
Reviews of Just another little murder; Willie’s Bar and Grill; Islam in Australia; and Lines of my Life.
Lyn Riddett struggles to explain her unbelief to believing friends.
Professor Saeed and Fr Madigan make religious dialogue look easy. You would almost wonder what is the problem.
Nation-building is a fraught and messy business. Michael Ignatieff knows that well.
Reviews of About face: Asian Accounts of Australia; Diplomatic Deceits: Government, Media and East Timor; The Complete Book of Great Australian Women—Thirty-Six women who changed the course of Australia and The Conclave: A sometimes secret and occasionally bloody history of papal elections
Anna Griffiths reviews William Dalrymple’s White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century India.
Muslims and Christians: unanswered questions, HIV/AIDS and voting for the pope
Anthony Ham visits Tunisia, Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters
'Should I shake someone’s hand or will it offend?’ ‘Should I have my head covered?’ ‘Will they think I’m really thick if I ask why they do that?’. These were some of the common concerns for the 30 young people involved in a multi-faith experiment in late January.
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