In what must be the first time that the word ‘jihad’ has ever been paired with the word ‘sheila‘ the ABC are screening: ABC News Special – Jihad Sheilas 8:30pm Tuesday, 05 Feb 2008 News A journey behind closed doors into the world of radical Islam. An intimate, unguarded and irreverent insight into the lives... Read More

So the UK Daily Telegraph’s Damian “Latin Mass Debate” Thompson who published the claim that Muslim hordes had laid siege to Liverpool Hospital has subsequently recanted. He writes: Actually, Islamic radicalism is growing in Australia – but that doesn’t make the Dhimmi Watch story true. Why have no doctors, nurses or patients from the hospital... Read More

Reader Thabet writes to point out that Damian Thompson of The Telegraph blog has posted an allegation that a Muslim horde “lay siege” last year to Liverpool Hospital in Sydney. Thompson, who somewhat ironically cites an interest in “conspiracy theories” and “fake history”, writes: After the death of a young Muslim man in a car... Read More

In the January/February 2008 issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Graham E. Fuller, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council of the CIA, engages in an interesting thought experiment. Imagine, if you will, a world without Islam—admittedly an almost inconceivable state of affairs given its charged centrality in our daily news headlines. Islam seems to... Read More