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 Islam". MyPeace is unashamed in declaring the superiority of its beliefs. For example mypeace.com.au characterizes Christian...
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 streets. In my previous post I...
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 a recent incident of church destruction in Elmarinab village, in Aswan province. Videos,...
“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, who is Henry B. Wright professor of Systematic Theology at Yale, offers an answer...
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 'migration' (Hijrah) in the 'phases' of dawah (i.e. the stages involved in...
Today the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Michael Smith, 2UE Radio Host, is being investigated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority "over his assertion that the prophet Muhammad 'married a nine-year-old and consummated it when she was 11'". It would be excellent if Australian authorities...
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 their freedom responsibly. But human nature being what it is, speech is...
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 weaknesses, quite apart from the mis-naming of the OIC (it is the Organisation for the Islamic...