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2006 Sydney Peace Prize address :: Irene Khan

Congratulations to Irene Khan, this year’s recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize. Past recipients include Arundhati Roy, Hanan Ashrawi, Muhammad Yunus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Olara Otunnu. For those that … Continue reading

3 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

ACTME: Sheikh al-Hilali and the Wisdom of Solomon

News item: Sheikh will step aside, Muslim colleague says (ABC)   ACTME Press Release [with interesting misogynistic quotes from all three Abrahamic religions; see latter half]   AUSTRALIAN COMMITTEE FOR … Continue reading

30 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?

By JEFF STEIN | NYT Op-Ed Contributor | Published: October 17, 2006 Image: Alex Nabaum FOR the past several months, I’ve been wrapping up lengthy interviews with Washington counterterrorism officials … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

The truth about the sword

by CHANDRA MUZAFFAR JUST :: 22 September 2006  It was Albert Einstein who once noted that it is easier to split the atom than to crack a prejudice. One such … Continue reading

11 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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