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Moonsighting – Points to consider

Moon SightingThe reality of the chaos and confusion which greets the Muslims at the beginning and end of every Ramadan is well known. This is hardly appropriate given the blessed nature of the month of Ramadan, a month we ...Read more

An Open Call to Islam

Islam CreedSydney, Australia, 14th July 2008 - On the occasion of World Youth Day 2008, as thousands of Catholics gather in Sydney, we take this opportunity to extend an open and sincere call to Islam.

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Moderation and Extremism

moderation & extremismThe war of The West against Islam assumes different guises and includes various spheres, which are all summed up in the undertaking of whatever distances Islam from the reality of life. The campaign was not limited ...Read more

Community - Media Watch

Australia and Austria: is the difference only in the spelling?

Australia / AustriaOn Sunday, April 6 2008, after a week long ad campaign of intrigue by producers, 60 Minutes finally aired their program entitled "Forbidden Love". A story of John and Jenny Deaves who are father and daughter ...Read more

$500m Australian Stud and the Sheik of Dubai

$500m Australian Stud and the Sheik of Dubai$500m could go a long way into solving the issue in neighbouring Iraq, in untying the hands of the embattled Palestinians, in soothing the hearts of ...Read more

Community - Notable Quotes

Excerpt from Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Quotation MarksExcerpt from Senate Standing Committee on Legal andConstitutional Affairs
 
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
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Abraham Lincoln on race relations

Quotation Marks"While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. 

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Why weren’t Aboriginal people included as Australian citizens?

Quotation MarksHere is an exchange in parliament that shows what many people thought at the time:

Senator Matheson: We all admit that the black people have to live. What we say is that the black people should live in their ...Read more