On Sunday, ABC2’s Asia-Pacific Focus program featured a story entitled, The Future of Australia’s Muslim Community. Although ABC2 is a digital station and therefore not as popular as the free-to-air ABC channel, this program arguably offered one of the more interesting insights into the federal government’s relationship with particular groups within the Muslim community. Most...Read More

Tariq Nelson has opened up a can, actually a few cans, of worms and sent them racing across the floor over on his blog. After warning readers to leave their emotional baggage at the door, Tariq writes about African-Americans (AA) marrying other races and some of the motivations for it. For Muslims living outside the...Read More

Writing in The New Yorker Rebecca Mead discusses the ‘cult’ of cosmetic surgery: Like certain strains of Christian mysticism, cosmetic surgery is founded on a notion of human perfectibility, although the means of achieving perfection, and the rewards thereof, are the opposite of those in a Christian theology. If for St. Teresa perfection required transcending...Read More

To adapt the now well reported statement of the embattled Mufti of Australia, 90 percent of Muslim PR disasters usually start with a cleric: He makes some remark; then a seductive headline; then a denial; then a claim that it’s taken out of context; then a media pack that has no mercy; and then an...Read More