Monday, April 27, 2009
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... a place where Irf injects some much needed spice and chilli in discussions about Muslims.
Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Spanish philosopher and jurist.
Once Were Radicals ...
... hits the streets May 2009!!!
About Me
- Irf
- I was born some time back. I'm currently alive. No doubt one day I'll pass away or pass out, whichever comes first. Until then, I do lawyering and writing in Australia.
Endorsement from Robert Spencer
Screaming Sectarian Super-Bigot
I am "far-right" the way Geert Wilders ... is(Comment on a book review I wrote for The Australian. Mate, you said it. Who am I to argue with you?)
... I can see why Irfan Yusuf got the 2007 Allen & Unwin Iremonger
award for public affairs writing: he's slick.
Endorsement from Mr Daniel Pipes
Chronic sectarian bigot ...
A nasty attack by an Australian blogger named Irfan Yusuf has appeared(From an update on Mr Pipes' blog dated 21 February 2008. No, Mr Pipes, I would never jump on you. I just don't find you physically attractive!)
... Yusuf jumps on me ...
Further Endorsement from Mr Daniel Pipes ...
Promoter of the "Obama was a Muslim" smear ...
... should send a signal to responsible media everywhere to decline his tendentious writings.(I wonder if, by "responsible", he means that tiny fringe of newspapers and websites happy to print his claims that Barack Obama is a Muslim apostate and attended a madressa? Or that wearing a sarong is "a garment associated with Muslims"? Or that extremists make up 10-15% of the Muslim world population? Well, Mr Pipes, I wouldn't want to pollute my reputation by writing for those kinds of media. You can have them all, mate!)
Where on earth are the readers?
Mevlana Jelal ad-Din Rumi
800 years since the great jurist/poet's birth ...
A prominent follower of the Mevlana ...
Shaykh Mahmud Esad Cosan (1938-2001)
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International Campaign Against Honour Killings
Terror is not my Islam ...
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2 comments:
Interesting that she didn't touch on the phenomenon of second generation(immigrants) identifying more with muslim rather than ethnic groupings.
I believe that Shakira did address that. Shakira spoke of how the discourse is shifting from identifying immigrants and people who do not fit within the narrowly defined common perception of 'Australian' as of white anglo origin, not from their nationality or national heritage but identifying them as a homogeneous 'Muslim'. Shakira went on to state that the result of this is an increase in some people taking up this discourse and describing themselves as Muslim.
I understood a theme of Shakira's speech was the illegitimacy of such broad labels.
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