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Islam: solution or problem, that is the question (Dr. Mark Durie)
Posted: 23 Nov 2014 01:06 PM PST An earlier version of this article appeared in the November 2014 edition of The Melbourne Anglican.A slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood is “Islam is the solution”. Dean Philip Jensen recently stated in regard to the Islamic State (ISIS) that “It is time to face the truth that Islam […]
Armenians: 1.5 million slaughtered: plus Assyrians, Jews. Lest we forget…
Have We Forgotten? Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide Robert Kaplan ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 31 OCT 2014 CAN ONE COMMEMORATE SHARED WAR-TIME EXPERIENCES WITH ENEMY FORCES WHO ACTED AS THE MILITARY ARM OF A STATE CARRYING OUT A TERRIBLE GENOCIDE AT THE SAME TIME?CREDIT: SADIK GULEC / SHUTTERSTOCK A century ago, in a misconceived encounter on the history-soaked precipices […]
Why are Americans afraid to criticize Islam? (by a Muslim writer)
Losing my religion to Islamic radicals and Western progressives THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OCTOBER 29, 2014 LAST week a Canadian Muslim gunman went on a rampage in Ottawa, killing a soldier and storming into the parliament building before he was shot dead. Authorities have since said he had applied for a passport to travel to […]
Islam: the Appeal of a Caliphate
What’s the appeal of a caliphate? In June the leader of Islamic State declared the creation of a caliphate stretching across parts of Syria and Iraq – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named himself the caliph or leader. Edward Stourton examines the historical parallels and asks what is a caliphate, and what is its appeal? When Islamic […]
Islam: reacting with *both* truth and love (Mark Durie)
1. Fear and the rhetoric of ‘unprecedented’ barbarity Posted: 26 Sep 2014 03:43 PM PDT 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 […]
Islamic State: the history behind this movement
For ISIS, the United States’ Military Strikes Confirm God’s Favor by JEFFREY KAPLAN Thursday | Sept 25 2014 President Obama’s decision to engage directly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) means that the United States is poised for yet another post-9/11 Middle Eastern conflict. This essay describes the world as seen through the […]
Remembering September 11
Thirteen Years Later: Hearing Music on September 11 by JOYCE SHIN Thursday | Sept 11 2014 New York City’s September 11 Memorial Photo: Dov Harrington / flickr creative commons Like many people who were old enough to understand what was happening, I can recall exactly where I was and what I was doing when news […]
Islamic State: Complexity and Truth
Complexity, Truth and the Islamic State: a Response to John Azumah and Colin Chapman Posted: 05 Sep 2014 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 […]
Why Sunni Arab States are dragging their feet
September 3, 2014 Rodger Shanahan Given that the greatest security threat  now facing the Middle East arises from the actions of an increasingly aggressive and violent group of radical Sunni Arab fighters, the apparent reluctance of Sunni Arab states to confront them says much about the nature of the regional Arab security system and even […]
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