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Lowering age of consent would harm anti-trafficking efforts

by Sam Hailes Reposted from Lapido media A public health official’s bid to lower the age of consent would undermine the fight against human trafficking, warns an Australian professor. Human rights activist Dr Mark Durie said the current law was ‘necessary…in order to prevent the

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Challenging Worldview Clichés

Over the past decade I have had the opportunity to speak to thousands of people about Islam across five continents.  At question time, the same issues keep coming up.  The questions which have stayed in my mind are all about world view assumptions.  These are

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A Dozen Bad Ideas for the 21st Century

Here is a list of false beliefs and modes of thought which make it hard for people in the West to come to terms with the challenge of Islam today.  If you are deeply attached to any of these ideas or ways of thinking, you

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Dr Mark Durie is an academic, Anglican pastor, Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Senior Research Fellow of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at Melbourne School of Theology.
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