Islam in Australia is a minority religious affiliation. According to the 2011 census, 476,291 people, or 2.2% of the total Australian population, were Muslims.[1] This made Islam the fourth largest […]
BY BETHAN MCKERNAN Warning: Some people may find some of the photos in this article distressing An image of a man passing a baby under a barbed wire fence […]
Published on: Feb 14 2016 | by Billy Solomon Protests over the proposed return of “Baby Asha” to Nauru, the fate of 267 asylum seekers also facing removal, and Australia’s offshore processing regime in general, continued across the country on Saturday. The 12-month-old, Darwin-born daughter of Nepalese asylum seekers was […]
Photo: Kurlow wants to be the first professional ballerina to dance in a hijab. Fourteen Year-Old Australian Muslim Girl Dreams to Be the First Hijabi Ballet Dancer A young Muslim ballerina wants other girls like her to know they can make a change — no matter their beliefs or the […]
Epigraph: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of […]
Source: BBC Almost all of Australia’s state and territory leaders have signed a document in support of the country becoming a republic. The only leader who declined to sign, Western […]
Tim Buxton, his wife Sarah, and their three small children moved to Iraq The family moved from Brisbane to the Kurdish area in north Iraq in 2014 ISIS invaded the day the Buxton’s landed in the war-torn country In the past 18 months they have helped hundreds of refugees find […]
Source: BBC The opal mining town of Coober Pedy takes living down under to a new level, escaping dangerous 50C temperatures by burrowing underground. BBC’s Travel Show brings you the latest […]
Source : The Guardian The official Twitter account of the Australian navy’s adviser on Muslim affairs was shut down within days of an official complaint by an anti-Islam group about […]
Source: BBC A Christmas Day bushfire has destroyed more than 100 homes in Australia’s Victoria state, officials say. Officials said 98 homes had been razed in Wye River and 18 […]
Source: The Guardian The immigration department has granted visas for the family of a young, terminally ill Pakistani student so they can visit him in Melbourne before he dies. Despite […]
theguardian: by Daniel Hurst — In rebuke to Tony Abbott, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells argues ‘megaphone politics’ could jeopardise Australia’s relations with neighbours such as Indonesia Concetta Fierravanti-Wells also chides MPs who indulged in a ‘public flogging’ of Australia’s grand mufti. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP A federal government frontbencher has warned against “simplistic” […]
Islamic State as godless terrorists who defame and blaspheme Islam Source: theaustralian.com.au I welcome the call for a debate on Islam. It would be a privilege for me to contribute to such a debate and help in removing misconceptions. Those who kill themselves or others can never attract the pleasure of […]
theguardian: by Michael Safi — Survey of 600 Muslims finds they are three to five times more likely to experience extreme levels of bigotry compared with other Australians Muslims in Sydney face high levels of racism, yet still believe Islam is compatible with Australian norms Muslims in Sydney are three […]
SYDNEY — It’s not every day a reverend, a rabbi and an imam get together in a church basement to discuss the extreme elements within their religions. Source: capebretonpost.com But that’s […]
News.com.au: by Emily Moulton — What ISIL wants Video WALEED Aly has unleashed on Australia’s politicians and Muslim leaders who have preached “hate” in the wake of the Paris attacks saying their actions actually help Islamic State rather than defeat them. The Project co-host used his regular ‘Something we should […]
Source: BBC Australia’s first party representing Muslims intends to contest senate seats at the next federal election. Launching the party in Sydney, founder Diaa Mohamed told Fairfax he wanted a […]
By Bethan McKernan in news Roma or Romani people have been discriminated against for millennia and the tradition continues in Europe today. A camp of mostly Roma on the outskirts of Malmo in Sweden wasraided last month. More than 200 people’s homes were destroyed and the local authorities only have plans to […]