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From Broken Hill to Martin Place: Individual Jihad Comes to Australia, 1915...
One hundred years ago today, a lethal jihad attack was staged against New Year’s Day picnickers in Broken Hill, Australia. This attack and the recent Martin Place siege, events separated by almost...
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Bearing the cross: a letter to the Islamic State
This is the first of a two-part post on the 21 Egyptian martyrs killed in Libya. This first part is a reflection, as a Christian, on aspects of this event and reactions to it. The second part, ‘A...
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‘A Message Signed with Blood to the Nation of the Cross’
This post is a analytical explanation of a film produced by Al-Hayat Media of the Islamic State, which portrays the ritual slaughter of 21 Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya, in the film “A Message...
View ArticleChallenging Islam’s Warrant to Kill
This post was first published by FrontPage Magazine.Last week the Islamic State’s ‘Hacking Division’ released the names and addresses of one hundred US military personnel. It urged the ‘brothers...
View ArticleCorrecting a typo in "Challenging Islam's Warrant to Kill"
In my most recent post "Challenging Islam's warrant to Kill" there was a typo, which has now been corrected:http://blog.markdurie.com/2015/03/challenging-islams-warrant-to-kill.htmlA quotation from the...
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Sex Slavery and the Islamic State
This article appears first in On Line Opinion. Jamie Walker, Middle East correspondent for The Australian, asked two critical questions in a recent article which discussed the involvement of two...
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Paris attacks were not 'nihilism' but sacred strategy
LEADING commentator Janet Daley's article in Saturday's Telegraph‘The West is at war with a death cult’ stands for everything that is woeful about European elites’ response to Islamic jihad.It is a...
View ArticleLove alone is not enough
Walid Aly is a well-known Australian media commentator. This week on Channel Ten’s The Projecthe produced an impassioned and compelling speech about the Paris killings. This went viral, achieving 27...
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Paris attacks: Islamic State sees its attacks as sacred strategy
This was published in the Australian Inquirer. It is a more general version of a longer article posted a few days previously on Lapido Media‘Paris attacks were not nihilism’.As the expressions of shock...
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John Eibner on the Future of Syria
John Eibner, director of Christian Solidarity International and anti-slavery activist, shares his wisdom on the future of Syria on The Tablet blogs, including reflections on the collective desire of...
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Turnbull’s Islamic Howlers
Agility and innovation? Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s version of history is all that and more. Leaping facts in a single bound, he ducks and weaves though a thicket of politically...
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Is Islam a Religion of Peace?
This article first appeared with Independent Journal. Originally published under the title “Anyone Using The Phrase ‘Islam Is A Religion Of Peace’ Needs To Read This”Days after the ISIS-inspired...
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Open Letter to President Obama about Christmas Bells Falling Silent in the...
Dear President Obama,in your recent statement on persecuted Christians at Christmas you stated:In some areas of the Middle East where church bells have rung for centuries on Christmas Day, this year...
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Minister for Islamic Apologetics
Senator Concetta Fierravanti-WellsThis article was first published on Quadrant Online.Other than the need to discredit her party’s former leader and push what might be termed the Turnbull Doctrine of...
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Do we worship the same God? Wheaton College, Larycia Hawkins and Miroslav Volf
The recent suspension of Larycia Hawkins by Wheaton College is a symptom of a fault line among evangelicals about Islam. The question of whether the God of the Qur'an is the same as the God of the...
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Obama doesn’t understand Jihadist doctrine
In his June 14 address to the nation, President Obama attributed Omar Mateen's attack on patrons of Orlando, Fla.'s, Pulse nightclub to "homegrown extremism," saying "we currently do not have any...
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Guess who's coming to Iftar?
A widely-publicised Iftar dinner, intended to show that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gets what it means to be inclusive, ended badly after he was advised that one of his guests, Sheikh Shady...
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What to tell would-be jihadis
Malcolm Turnbull has warned Australians fighting with the Islamic State that they face 'almost certain death'. He needn't encourage them. The Australian Prime Minister has apparently not yet learned...
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Violent Protests in Indonesia Blow an Ill Will for Religious Tolerance
Jakarta Riots against Christian Governor November 4, 2016Source: ReutersIn Jakarta violence between protestors and police broke out Friday night, November 4, 2016 when an estimated 200,000 Muslims...
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After Ariana Grande & The Manchester Attacks: Three 'Unrealities' Are Killing...
An important article by Jenny Taylor Three unrealities have collided in Britain, and they are allowing our children to die. The first unreality is hinted at in the very words of Ariana Grande, at...
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