There’s nothing like the thought of a gym or swimming pool running women-only sessions (at the request of Muslim women) to get some men all worked up. Take the recent ‘controversy’ surrounding one of Harvard University’s gymnasiums. Andrew Sullivan rushes to denounce it as “shariah at Harvard’; Jihadwatch says they have submitted to Islam; and...
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The ABC’s Four Corners screened a documentary called Dangerous Ground last night on young Muslims which, like pretty much every other documentary on young Muslims, focused on the range of social problems and issues that a particular demographic of Muslim “yoof” in Sydney face. As per usual, a warning was issued by one of the...
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Andrew Norton and Irfan Yusuf both have posts up advertising the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) Liberty and Society weekend seminar to be held next month. As the website explains: Liberty and Society is for young people who may be questioning the standard answers they are getting regarding social, political and economic issues. You may...
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Now that the Turkish government seems to have come to terms with the idea of a woman wearing a scarf on her head, they can move on the bigger and more ambitious projects: The country’s powerful Department of Religious Affairs has commissioned a team of theologians at Ankara University to carry out a fundamental revision...
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