Two worthwhile articles on Islam in Australia

[underfoot]

...feeling the need to wade in ....having spent time in the middle east in my youth..(Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan and Israel)...

[DonIncognito]

http://m.theage.com.au/comment/musli...30-10nktr.html

An actual worthwhile article on Islam.

[Gunnaduit]

I tried to find material on why the Left finds it so important to defend right-wing Islamism against any form of criticism. Of course, the "Right" has no trouble explaining that with relish. But it is more difficult to find Leftist perspectives on that question. Here's two that appear to be from the Left, which I thought went some way to explaining the difficulty that the Left has in critiquing Islamist ideology.

The first is from an Australian human rights website, the second is from an American feminist blog.

http://rightnow.org.au/writing-cat/o...g-about-islam/

http://www.meredithtax.org/taxonomyb...speak-its-name

Even though both the Left and Islamist fundamentalism are critiqued by these authors, you'd need to actually read them before presuming off-hand that they must be islamophobic racist nazis.