In the Media

Sultana's Dream challenges SBS Insight for lack of insight

Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:58

 If there is one issue that unites Australian Muslims across the board, writes Hanifa Deen Sultana's Dream editor, in the August issue,  it’s how we perceive our treatment by the media.  Sunni or Shi’a, Sudanese, Somali, Turkish, Lebanese, Egyptian, Indonesian—or plain old Anglo – we all have something to complain about. Print or electronic, it matters not—in Muslim eyes ‘they’ are all tarred with the same brush. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Read about Muslim women's take on the Insight on Polygamy and how they're saying, enough is enough! http://www.sultanasdream.com.au/index.htm

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SBS Arabic Radio report on the Freedom from Persecution Conference hosted by CCS

Thursday, 03 November 2011 10:55

On 7 October 2011, the UTS Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies hosted the conference ‘Freedom from Persecution’ which coincided with the exhibition ‘Unsafe Haven’ about Hazaras in Afghanistan by Sydney based photographer and freelance writer Abdul Karim Hekmat. The conference was organised by Professor James Goodman, Director at CCS, and Dr Wahid Razi from UTS. SBS Arabic journalist Ghassan Nakhoul was there to cover the event and produced a radio report on the conference. The report is in Arabic but includes voice grabs in English from conference participants including Dr Wahid Razi from UTS, artist Abdul Karim Hekmat, Professor William Maley from ANU, Dr Anne McNevin from RMIT, and Dr Omid Tofighian and Dr Nour Dados, both from the University of Sydney.

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The Age's John Elder reports on ethnic violence

Tuesday, 23 August 2011 16:33

John Elder The Age August 21, 2011Serbian fans at the Australia-Serbia international soccer friendly in June light flares and give the three-fingered salute of the nationalist Chetniks. It's easy to condemn ethnic violence in Australia but harder to resolve it. John Elder reports on attempts to build trust between communities scarred by decades of conflict ON A Tuesday night in June, Father Milan Milutinovic took his two young sons to a friendly soccer match between Serbia and Australia at Etihad Stadium.

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Remember The Sydney Riots?

Friday, 19 August 2011 15:31

The political posturing on law and order in the UK is all too familiar. Just as in Redfern and Macquarie Fields, the connections between crime, policing and poverty are fraught, writes Adam Brereton

"There are no excuses for this behaviour and I’m not going to have it said that this behaviour is caused by social disadvantage … A lot of people grew up in circumstances of disadvantage and they did not go out and attack police with bricks and light fires in the street."

Although it could have been said yesterday by David Cameron or Boris Johnson, this quote is from Bob Carr, in the aftermath of the 2005 Macquarie Fields riots. A year earlier he exactly foreshadowed Cameron’s pronouncements on London’s violence when he described rioting by Redfern’s Indigenous community as "criminality, plain and simple". 

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Oslo murder link to Australian anti-multiculturalists

Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:43

As a result of the ability of a disturbed young man in Oslo’s ability to read Australian papers and publications online, our own anti-multicultural ideologues sometimes get caught up in situations not of their own desire.  Before Anders Behring Breivik was arrested as the Oslo killer, he had sent out a manifesto to some 5700 contacts.The discovery of an Australian link to the horrifying murders of dozens of people by Anders Breivik in Norway has demonstrated the reach of connection in today’s globalised world. Read the full story in The Conversation.