Jamie Walker, Middle East correspondent for The Australian, asked two critical questions in a recent article which discussed the involvement of two Australian citizens, Mohamed Elomar and Khaled Sharrouf, in Islamic State sex slavery. In 2014 Elomar purchased sex slaves, of whom four, all Yazidis,...
While reading Australian journalist Philip Adams’ despairing rage against cinema violence – and he's not wrong! – I was reminded of the words of polymath David Goldman, commenting on the rise and rise of horror in films: "If you do not believe in God, you will...
Last week the Islamic State’s ‘Hacking Division’ released the names and addresses of one hundred US military personnel. It urged the ‘brothers residing in America’ – i.e. American Muslims – to ‘deal with’ them, which is to say, it wants them killed. There is much talk...
This is the first of a two-part post on the 21 Egyptian martyrs killed in Libya. This first part is a reflection, as a Christian, on aspects of this event and reactions to it. The second part, ‘A message signed with blood to the Nation...
This post is a analytical explanation of a film produced by Al-Hayat Media of the Islamic State, which portrays the ritual slaughter of 21 Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya, in the film “A Message Signed with Blood to the Nation of the Cross”. ...
One hundred years ago today, a lethal jihad attack was staged against New Year’s Day picnickers in Broken Hill, Australia. This attack and the recent Martin Place siege, events separated by almost exactly a century, show striking similarities. For Australians, the anxious question about the Martin...
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...