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The Abrahamic Fallacy
The original of this article was published in the New English Review. The Abrahamic Fallacyby Mark Durie (February 2014)Presented at Ahavath Torah Synagogue, Stoughton, Massachusetts January 9, 2014...
View ArticleResponse to A GUIDE TO REFUTING JIHADISM – Critiquing radical Islamist claims...
This article first appeared with Lapido Media: see here.TheHenry Jackson Society had just launched a guide to rejecting jihadi theologies in Islam, A Guide to Refuting Jihadism by Rashad Ali and Hannah...
View ArticleAndrew Brown on "Response to A GUIDE TO REFUTING JIHADISM"
Andrew Brown of the Guardian has commented on my response to A Guide to Refuting Jihadism, which was published first on Lapido Media and then in fuller form on this blog.Brown writes: Can you dissuade...
View ArticleIslam’s Second Crisis: the troubles to come
In What Went Wrong, Bernard Lewis charted the decline of Islam in the modern era and the resulting theological crisis for the Muslim world. Now Islam is going through a second crisis, caused by the...
View ArticleMulticulturalism’s Child Brides
Recent reports of under-age marriages in Australia are evidence that the authorities need to do more to enforce marriage laws in Western nations, and to restrict the practice of unregistered...
View ArticleThe Rising Sex Traffic in Forced Islamic Marriage
Western nations are facing what has been called an “epidemic” of forced marriages of their young Muslim women. While those who compel young Muslim women and girls into marriages could be charged with...
View ArticleVideos and Other Resources by Mark Durie on Islam
This blog is a bit different from usual. It provides a broader context for my writings on Islam.There are two aspects to my speaking and writing on Islam. Some of this is for secular or multi-faith...
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Tony Blair on the Islamist Threat
Tony Blair delivered a major speech on April 23 entitled, “Why the Middle East Matters”. In summary, he argued that the Middle East, far from being a “vast unfathomable mess” is deep in the throes of a...
View ArticleMark Durie on the Glazov Gang - Islam’s Role in Boko Haram’s Kidnapping of...
Here is my recent appearance on the Glazov Gang: In the interview I suffered a slip of the tongue and at one point said that Islam permits a man to have five wives. Of course the correct limit for the...
View ArticleBoko Haram and the Dynamics of Denial: Islam is not the victim here
It is a common refrain of pious Muslims in the face of atrocities done by other Muslims in the name of Islam that Islam must not be shamed: whenever an atrocity potentially dishonors Islam, non-Muslims...
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The Koran and Child Marriage
Today a report appeared in The Australian, a national daily newspaper, which discussed forced marriages in our nation. There were many good points made in this article, which was entitled It is the...
View ArticleUpdate on The Koran and Child Marriage
In my last post I criticized an article which had appeared in The Australian, It is the young flesh they want. I challenged a paragraph in which an academic, Associate Professor Jennifer Burn was...
View Article‘Three Choices’ and the bitter harvest of denial: How dissimulation about...
By Mark DuriePublished first by Lapido Media: see here.Republished by permission.Also see summary and comment by Jenny Taylor here.In northern Iraq religious genocide is reaching end-game stage....
View ArticleChristians are 'asking' to pay jizya: reflections on the Islamic State
An important documentary by VICE News has been published which uses extensive footage gained by a journalist embedded with Islamic State forces. The youtube video linked here is set to start at 29m...
View ArticleComplexity, Truth and the Islamic State: a Response to John Azumah and Colin...
Recently Lapido Media published an article of mine entitled ‘Three Choices’ and the bitter harvest of denial: How dissimulation about Islam is fuelling genocide in the Middle East. In it I argued that...
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Muslims Need Truth and Love
By Mark DurieThis article first appeared in Eternity Magazine.The past few weeks have been hard ones for Australians, not least for Australian Muslims. Various alleged plots by Islamic State supporters...
View ArticleFear and the rhetoric of 'unprecedented' barbarity
By Mark DurieMany leaders have been stating that the Islamic State’s actions are ‘unprecedented’, ‘extreme’, ‘unique’, or even ‘eccentric’. Western leaders who are intervening in the Syria-Iraq...
View ArticleJihadi Islam: a further response to John Azumah
By Mark DurieThis is an edited version of an article posted by Fulcrum. John Azumah has taken yet another bite of the apple by releasing a third response to my Lapido Media article “‘Three Choices’ and...
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Islam: solution or problem, that is the question
An earlier version of this article appeared in the November 2014 edition of The Melbourne Anglican.A slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood is “Islam is the solution”. Dean Philip Jensen recently stated in...
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Announcing SISTER RELIGONS? - Interviews with Mark Durie and others
Sister Religions? a series of extended interviews with Mark Durie and others has been published in DVD form by Hatikvah Films. It is available on Amazon (US) and direct from Hatikvah in the UK.Sister...
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