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Planes and chains.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: Sheik Hilaly is not, as some believe, a figure of fun prone to crazy outbursts. His barbs are pointed, and part of a concerted campaign of destabilisation. His claim that Muslims have more right to Australia than others (the planes-versus-chains argument) did not receive as much attention as some of his more spectacular remarks, but the fact that he uttered it means it is likely to have some wider currency in the Australian Muslim circles in which he moves.
The trouble with the Native Title legislation was not that it gave land rights to Aborigines, a legitimate claim, but it gave a small group of non-indigenous Australian opinion-formers the chance to claim our occupation of the continent was both immoral and illegal. And then for good measure they threw in a supposed recent genocide of the Aboriginal population during the "stolen generations" era.
Our legitimacy is a precious piece of cultural capital ...
- AUSTRALIAN MUSLIM DELEGATION KICKS OFF INDONESIAN VISIT.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) October 23, 2007 700+ words
Brisbane, Oct 23 (ANTARA): Eight Australian Muslim leaders Tuesday kicked off a 10-day visit to Indonesia...Minister Alexander Downer said. During their stay, the Australian Muslim delegation will hold dialogs not only with religious...
- AUSTRALIAN MUSLIM LEADERS EXPLORE ISLAM IN INDONESIA.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) May 30, 2009 700+ words
Jakarta, May 30 (ANTARA): Some young Australian Muslim leaders have participated in a bilateral exchange program in Indonesia aimed at strengthening links and understanding of Islam...
- What does it mean to be un-Australian? Views of Australian Muslim students in...
- Magazine article from: People and Place Kabir, Nahid April 1, 2007 700+ words
...discover whether mainstream pressure to inaugurate a citizenship test is necessary. (6) The author is a Bangladeshi-born Australian Muslim. She lived in Pakistan and the United States for some years and in the Middle East for ten years. Therefore, it was...
- Australian Muslim responses to the discourse on terrorism in the Australian...
- Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Social Issues Aly, Anne September 22, 2007 700+ words
The popular media is an important player in the contemporary focus on terrorism and counter-terrorism. The events surrounding the terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 set the scene for the media's distinct role in the developing discourse on terrorism. The continuous coverage
- Racist abuse against Australian Muslim, Arabs rise: report.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. June 16, 2004 700+ words
Neena Bhandari Sydney, June 16 (PTI) Arab and Muslim Australians reported an increase in verbal and physical abuse in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States and the Bali bombings, a human rights organisation said on Wednesday. The report by Australian Human Rights and Equal
- IDENTIFICATIONS: BETWEEN NATIONALISTIC `CELLS' AND AN AUSTRALIAN MUSLIM UMMAH.
- Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Social Issues Nebhan, Katy November 1, 1999 700+ words
Issues of Methodology Contemporary perceptions of Australian Muslims fit into the well established pattern of the ethnic and cultural structuralisms which largely define migrant studies in Australia. Emphasis on the processes of immigration, the physical patterns of migrant settlement, the
- Discovering the new disappeared.(STATE OF THE ART)
- Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review Cooper, Gloria July 1, 2005 700+ words
...published reports identified the owner of the plane as a Boston company, later sold to one...investigated the case of an abducted Australian Muslim who, after months of barbaric treatment...expanded to include at least twenty-six planes. As each discrete particle of information...
- PLANE BUILDER REINVENTING THE FREEDOMN OF FLIGHT.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) July 9, 1990 700+ words
...between the bigger planes, you've got to...fashioned most of the plane with an eight-inch...Total cost of the plane should run about...realizes that his planes are remnants of a...tougher to fly a simple plane, he said. For example...last few years, planes without radios like...
