A slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood is “Islam is the solution”. Anglican Dean Philip Jensen recently stated in regard to the Islamic State (ISIS) that “It is time to face the truth that Islam itself is part of the problem.” Solution or problem: what is...
This video was created before the 2014 Victorian state election. However the outcome it predicted for religious organisations has taken until 2021 to be fulfilled, when the state Labor Government introduced amendments to discrimination laws, targeting religious organisations, which they had foreshadowed seven years earlier. To...
This video was prepared in advance of the 2014 Victorian Election. The promised changes to anti-discrimination law targeting religious institutions did not happen until 2021....
This is an edited version of an article posted by Fulcrum. John Azumah has taken yet another bite of the apple by releasing a third response to my Lapido Media article “‘Three Choices’ and the bitter harvest of denial”. This is an earlier response, now re-issued, in...
By Mark Durie Many leaders have been stating that the Islamic State’s actions are ‘unprecedented’, ‘extreme’, ‘unique’, or even ‘eccentric’. Western leaders who are intervening in the Syria-Iraq conflict justify their actions by declaring the Islamic State to be uniquely evil. In announcing military action and...
This article first appeared in Eternity Magazine. The past few weeks have been hard ones for Australians, not least for Australian Muslims. Various alleged plots by Islamic State supporters to slaughter Australians has Islam in the news. Even as I write, five out of ten of...
Recently Lapido Media published an article of mine entitled ‘Three Choices’ and the bitter harvest of denial: How dissimulation about Islam is fuelling genocide in the Middle East. In it I argued that Western theological illiteracy, made worse by demonstrably false statements put out by...
