Showing posts with label Muslims in Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muslims in Australia. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Pauline Hanson Asks Sam Dastyari on Q&A: Are You a Muslim?


One Nation leader defends her views on Islam as Labor senator, whose family migrated from Iran when he was five, asks if she would have banned him. Dastyari says her policy positions are ‘hurtful’ and ‘painful’ for the thousands of migrants like him and his parents. Hanson responds by citing Japan as an example of a country with very low numbers of Muslim migrants and no ‘terrorism on the streets’, in contrast to France and Belgium.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

How Australia's Young Muslim Men Are Getting Radicalised (2014)


Dangerous Ground (2008): Young Australian Muslims are being made to feel like foreigners in their own country. Is Australia’s response to terrorism to blame?

Sunday, March 07, 2010

New Dark Age Alert! Muslim Leader Wants Elements of Sharia in Australia

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: ELEMENTS of Islamic law - the sharia - should be legally recognised in Australia so that Muslims can live according their faith, a prominent Muslim leader says.

Addressing an open day at Lakemba Mosque on Saturday, the president of the Australian Islamic Mission, Zachariah Matthews, said parts of sharia could be recognised as a secondary legal system so that Muslims were not forced to act contrary to their beliefs. ''Sharia law could function as a parallel system in the same way that some traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law was recognised in the Northern Territory,'' Dr Matthews told the Herald after the session.

''I don't think we are so unsophisticated that we cannot consider a multilayered legal system as long as it doesn't conflict with the existing civil system.''

The comments shocked some attending the open day. They felt Dr Matthews was advocating the introduction of the penal system under which women have been stoned to death for adultery, and corporal punishment is meted out for some offences.

''It came as quite a shock to some non-Muslims in the crowd when sharia law and the idea of a parallel legal system was mentioned,'' one audience member, Jasmine Donnelly, said.

''One group of people just left straight after that.'' >>> Paul Bibby | Monday, March 08, 2010

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Religious Divide Drives Bikie War

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: AN ANCIENT religious enmity is at the centre of a new conflict in the Sydney bikie scene, with a new gang comprised mainly of Sunni Muslims warring with a group of bikies with a Shiite Muslim background. >>> Dylan Welch, Police Reporter | Monday, February 16, 2009

The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback – Australia) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback – Australia) >>>