Source: Premier Daniel Andrews greets Imam Kauser at the Ahmadiyya Muslim group’s Bait-ul-Salam Mosque, Langwarrin. PREMIER Daniel Andrews has praised the Ahmadiyya Muslim group for its commitment to peace and harmony. Speaking at a peace symposium hosted by Ahmadis’ at their Bait-ul-Salam Mosque, Langwarrin, Mr Andrews said members had displayed […]
Chitralekha Massey, the new Pacific representative of the office says politicians must show courage and close Australian-run detention centres Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton talks to prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in parliament. The UN human rights office has said Australia must end offshore immigration detention. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the […]
Source: The Guardian By Katharine Murphy Political editor In her first speech to the federal parliament in 1996, Pauline Hanson warned “we are in danger of being swamped by Asians” – a line that became her political signature. In her triumphant return to politics in 2016, the designated enemy has changed. […]
Source: Dawn MANY of the far-right political parties in Europe that are riding a wave of misguided anti-refugee sentiment are inclined to view Australia as a role model. They look across the sea and fawn upon a nation whose navy turns back rickety vessels overflowing with desperate asylum-seekers. They see […]
By Adam Taylor August 17 Mecca Laa Laa, center, is wearing a full-body “burkini” as she sits with other Muslim lifeguards at Sydney’s Cronulla Beach in February 2007. (Anoek de Groot/AFP via Getty Images) Along France’s beaches and swimming pools, there’s a war about how women dress. A number of French […]
Source: Reuters By Timothy Large HAWKER, Australia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of “poison stuff” that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swathes of South Australia. Now a new kind of radioactivity could head to her […]
Source: Time By Ian Bremmer As history buffs and film fans know, there weren’t enough lifeboats for passengers aboard the Titanic. As the boats, some less than full, pulled away from the sinking ship, debate began among the lucky few about whether to return to pluck the drowning from the water. […]
Source: communitynews.com.au Trees are a blessing in Islam Written by Anjum H Qaisrani, South Lake Fremantle Gazette OPINION IN Islam, planting trees is a continued charity for the one who plants them. This means that every time anyone receives any benefit from a tree such as eating its fruit or sitting under […]
Source: World Religion News AUSTRALIANS CLAIMING ‘JEDI’ AS THEIR RELIGION IS A PROBLEM FOR ATHEISTS. In what has been labeled an absurd move by the people of Australia, close to […]
Source: canberratimes.com.au The ACT opposition has criticised government delays in finding a suitable site for an Ahmadiyya Muslim mosque in Canberra. The government has offered a block of land to the Ahmaddiya community at Narrabundah, after two other sites in Rivett and Hume proved to be unsuitable. Giulia Jones has criticised […]
Source: News.com.au By Charis Chang AUSTRALIANS are being warned not to mark “no religion” on the Census survey over fears we could become a “Muslim country”. But emails and Facebook posts […]
Source: CNN By Ben Westcott and Judy Kwon, CNN (CNN)Australia is deliberately abusing refugees in an offshore detention camp to try to stop people seeking asylum in their country by boat, human rights groups claim in a new report. Daily violence, suicide attempts and children left without medical treatment were […]
Source: blacktownsun.com.au | Harrison Vesey @harrisonvesey Rafah Mahmood, Aqeel Choudhry and Raza Mohammad at the Baitul Huda Mosque, Marsden Park. Picture: Isabella Lettini Local Muslims who love Australia are calling for peace and understanding during a time of increased fear and division. Raza Mohammad, 19, was born and raised in Blacktown and is currently […]
Source: BBC By Rowena Henley Deep within Australia’s vast desert, a tremendous tower of rock has been forming for some 600 million years. For Aborigines, Uluru is sacred, full of […]
Source: BBC A wedge-tailed eagle tried to fly away with a terrified boy at a popular wildlife show in central Australia. A crowd of stunned onlookers watched the enormous bird […]
Source: TOI PERTH, AUSTRALIA: Western Australia police are investigating a racist firebomb attack at a mosque in state capital Perth while hundreds were praying on Tuesday evening, officials said on Wednesday. More:
Exclusive: In his 43-year career, Paul Stevenson has worked in the aftermath of the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami but says nothing he witnessed was as bad as the treatment of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus by Ben Doherty and David Marr In my entire career of […]
Source: Straits Times SYDNEY (AFP) – A British Muslim cleric who once preached that gays should be put to death has had his Australian visa cancelled and has left the […]
Source: The Guardian Malcolm Turnbull has warned against the community being divided by acts of terrorism such as the Orlando massacre and “extremist, nihilistic interpretations of religion”. Speaking at an […]
Source Australasian Muslim Times by Zia Ahmad Zia Ahmad is the Managing Editor of the Australasian Muslim Times AMUST and is based in Sydney. Waleed Aly, the recipient […]