Keysar Wants a Wife
It’s late 1995. I’m sitting in my office in a small law firm in suburban…More
Tagged: islam & the west
A Back-Page Muslim
Imran Ahmad isn’t the sort of Muslim you’d find gracing the front page of The…More
What Imams Have in Common With the Liberal Party
Natalie O’Brien’s story in The Australian last week accurately reflects just some of the tensions…More
The Jehovah's of Islam
It was my mother’s worst nightmare. Like all South Asian mums, mine was obsessed with…More
A Family Affair
The Western world still understands little about the motivations behind the September 11, 2001 attacks…More
An Unreliable Narrator
When I was growing up, there weren’t many English language books on Islam available in…More
A New Mufti for Oz
On 31 March 2007, a young legal academic from Griffith University was interviewed by Stephen…More
Celebrating Dissidence
Dissidents from Islamic communities are all the rage at the moment. Women such as Wafa…More
More Offensive than Hilali?
In the last week or so I’ve made an important discovery. Believe it or not,…More
The Kebab Kaliphate Klub
I’d been planning to have a quiet weekend just sitting back, putting my feet up…More