On Monday, Andrew Norton made the observation that parents who choose private education for their children are treated less favourably by government than those who choose public schools. On the federal government’s school funding policy, students at private schools get subsidies at somewhere between 13.7% and 70% of the government school rate, depending on the...Read More
The Sun-Herald are reporting today that two Muslim women will be running for the seat of Auburn in Sydney’s South West. A FORMER high school principal and a local councillor will become the first Muslim women to be aligned with mainstream political parties when they contest the March 24 state election. Muslim converts Silma Ihram,...Read More
Muslim opinion, as far as one can discern it from reading a few of the blogs, seems largely lukewarm as far as the CBC sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie is concerned. One of the reasons seems to be, among other things, it’s portrayal of the more religiously conservative characters on the show. It was...Read More
FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) has long been used as a hammer with which to beat Muslims, and especially us nasty wasty fundamentalists. The practice is confined largely to Sub-Saharan Africa, but as it is no longer acceptable to denigrate black people, they must be recast as Muslims so as to be collectively vilified. The small...Read More
