Sharia Britain: the paradox of tolerance
by Mark DurieThis week Baroness Caroline Cox launched a bill in the House of Lords to impose principles of gender equality upon the sharia courts of Britain.This proposal reflects a growing groundswell...
View ArticleDhimmitude and Ibn Ajibah on the Death of the Non-Muslim Soul
By Mark DurieI first became intrigued by the situation of non-Muslims under Islam while doing linguistic field work in Aceh, Indonesia in the late 1970's and early 1980's.This interest was piqued in...
View ArticleArchbishop of Dhimmitude? A press release from Lambeth
The following press release from Lambeth Palace, issued on Tuesday June 14, has some positive features, including its concern for religious freedom and religious rights. However it has grave...
View Article2UE Radio Host Michael Smith's Comments on Muhammad's Marriage to Aisha
Today the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Michael Smith, 2UE Radio Host, is being investigated by the Australian Media and Communications authority "over his assertion that the prophet Muhammad...
View ArticleWhen Speaking on Sensitive Topics
This blog post is about how to speak reasonably about sensitive topics, and specifically ones which can give rise to charges of vilification.In ideal world, speech would be free, and everyone would use...
View ArticleEuropean 'No-Go' Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating "Occupation Without...
In a lecture presented to a young Muslim audience at the University of Western Sydney on Friday 30 March 2001, the prominent Australian Muslim leader Dr Zachariah Matthews was discussing the role of...
View ArticleDo We Worship the Same God? A Review by Mark Durie of Miroslav Volf's "Allah".
“Do we worship the same God?” This has become a hotly contested and divisive question, posed in these troubled days by many Christians about Muslims and Islam. Influential theologian Miroslav Volf,...
View ArticleEgypt: Destroying Churches, one at a time
by Raymond IbrahimHudson New YorkOctober 10, 2011What clearer sign that Egypt is turning rabidly Islamist than the fact that hardly a few weeks go by without a church being destroyed, or without...
View ArticleA Double-Bind Upon the Copts: dhimmitude in action
Over the weekend, violence on Cairo's streets resulting in the deaths of dozens of Copts and the wounding of hundreds more. The killings occurred when the Egyptian military dispersed a protest against...
View ArticleMore on the Recent Massacre of Copts in Cairo
In my last blog post I emphasized the role of the Egyptian military in killing Copts last Sunday. However it seems that most of the killings may have been done by gangs of Muslim men who took to the...
View ArticleAustralian Parliament Calls for an End to Coptic Persecution in Egypt
Today, the House of Representatives honoured Australia’s commitment to religious freedom with a clear endorsement of a historic private member’s bill addressing the ongoing persecution of the Coptic...
View ArticleMuslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2011 by Raymond Ibrahim
Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2011 by Raymond IbrahimOctober 12, 2011 at 5:00 amThis is a repost of an article published in Hudson New York.See HERE. An especially busy month in the...
View ArticleMyPeace on Australian TV and "Islamic Values"
mypeace.com.au is an Australian dawah (i.e. missionary) website. It is designed to invite people to convert to Islam. Disingenuously it states that it exists to "address the many misconceptions about...
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Boko Haram, the Arab 'Spring', and the radical Islamic Revival
This past week, as I read the grim news of Christmas killings in Nigeria, there came back to me the words of Shaikh Khalid Yasin, an African-American convert to Islam and globe trotting preacher, who...
View ArticleOutlawry in Egypt: the disturbing case of Sayyid Al-Qemany, friend of freedom
Things are not going well for lovers of freedom in Egypt.Egypt is under a moral and spiritual siege. Freedom of speech is deteriorating rapidly, because of rather than in spite of the 'Arab Spring'....
View ArticleFemale Circumcision in the Maldives, the Islamic Movement and Islamophobia
I was struck today by a comment from a Maldives women's rights activist about the direction her nation is taking. In a report published the Melbourne Age, which discussed female circumcision and the...
View ArticleThe Islamic Tradition of Breaking the Cross
Islam's Tradition of Breaking the Crossby Mark DurieThis was no "furious mob" on a "rampage," reacting to Koran-burning. These men are methodically, deliberately, and in an organized fashion going...
View ArticleThe Ramadan Olympics and Islam's "Law of Necessity"
This article first appeared with the Gatestone Institute. Because Islam's "Law of Necessity" fully permits Muslims to find creative ways to adapt when Sharia Law conflicts with practical life, the...
View Article'Insider Killings' in Afghanistan
This article first appeared with Frontpage Magazine.In the past two weeks at least nine Americans have been killed by their Afghan allies in what is known as ‘insider killings’. Members of the Afghan...
View ArticleSpengler's review of Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's...
David Goldman has written an important review of Melanie Kirkpatrick's new book on the Underground Railroad from North Korea. BOOK REVIEWCan North Korea's agony find an end?Reviewed by SpenglerEscape...
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