By Mariam Veiszadeh - ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS. IN AUSTRALIA, WE SUFFER FROM A HIGH LEVEL OF LOW LEVEL RACISM, WHAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "SUBTERRANEAN RACISM," WHICH INCREASINGLY ERUPTS ON TRAINS, BUSES, TWITTER AND FEDERAL POLITICS. In the wake of the latest racist tirade on a Melbourne train and the ... Read More

Khaled Abou El Fadl. ABC Religion and Ethics. The real challenge that confronts Muslim intellectuals today is that political interests have come to dominate public discourses to the point that moral investigations and thinking have become marginalized in modern Islam. In the age of postcolonialism, Muslims have become largely preoccupied with the ... Read More

By:Murad Ali Sharia (Islamic) Law has been a hot topic of debate for Canadians. Many Canadians are opposed to the implementation of Sharia because of misperceptions about flogging, decapitations and potential abuse towards women. However few have discussed the where if any in Canada a lending institute must certify their mortgages ... Read More

By:M.Ridha Payne Muslims now form one of the largest religious groups in the UK. At a time when great misunderstandings and stereotypes circulate the media and society regarding the religion, it is crucial for an effort to be made at all levels to go beyond archetypal images and to begin to ... Read More

By Susan Carland. ABC Religion and Ethics Hunger and thirst is not the point of Ramadan: the prophetic traditions warn against finishing Ramadan with little else. The physical fast is the vehicle to increased awareness and divine communion. Ramadan is a time of restraint, of withholding. But it is also a time ... Read More

By Susan Carland. ABC Religion and Ethics. The fascination with Muslim women in the West is as persistent as it is negative. Western observers have explicitly associated Islam with the oppression of women since the eighteenth century. As Lord Cromer, the British Consul-General to Egypt (1883-1907) announced, "I am here to liberate ... Read More

By Waleed Aly. ABC Religion and Ethics. Fictional news stories ought to be exceedingly rare. But they are not - and where Muslims are concerned, they represent something of an emerging genre. British journalists Peter Oborne and James Jones catalogue several examples of such stories, drawing on a study performed by the ... Read More