“When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.” IfsProblemChristianOrderCircumstancesProtectAbuseBlameResponseIslamCharacteristicsIslamicSpokesApologyLockedPalestinianAbusersProtect Yourself Author:Mark Durie
“Multiculturalism is only in the West. We are absorbing a large number of Muslims in the west and at the same time the Christians and the Jews and other minorities are fleeing the Middle East, churches are being burnt, nobody is talking about it. Where are the religious freedom of the minorities.” ChristianChurchReligiousNumbersTalkingMiddleWestJewEastMinoritiesMiddle EastMulticulturalismLarge NumbersReligious FreedomAbsorbingFleeing Author:Mark Durie
“I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they were inferiors in their native lands and they are disturbed about the rise of more separate radical Islam in Australia, not necessarily the main stream but there is a voice.” FeelingsChristianVoiceBehindsLandMiddleMetsIslamLeavingEastRadicalStreamsNativeAustraliaMiddle EastInferiorsDisturbedNative LandRadical Islam Author:Mark Durie
