“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
“Some people in the west have responded to the terrorist attacks by trying to look for everything that is positive in Islam. I think that was a strong response after 9/11, was to try to reach out as positively as possible.” PeopleThinkingTryingLooksStrongWestResponseIslamTerroristReach OutPositivelyTerrorist Attacks Author:Mark Durie
“There are some disturbing messages in the Koran, there were declarations of war against non-believers, there's a declaration that Islam should be triumphant over other religions, the problem is this is not just in the book, but preached throughout the Islamic world that are preached, we in the West hear about that.” WorldShouldBookWarProblemMessagesWestIslamBelieverIslamicDeclarationDisturbingTriumphantNon BelieverDeclaration Of War Author:Mark Durie
“Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.” WayLawIslamProfitInterpretationShariaSharia Law Author:Mark Durie
“Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't allow Muslims to leave Islam, and there's a death penalty in all the schools of Sharia against those that leave Islam. Sharia defines what jihad is.” PeopleIfsSchoolEarthLyingBenefitsIslamPenaltiesDeath PenaltyJihadSharia Author:Mark Durie
“Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.” PeopleThinkingBelieveBeliefSocialMoralFiveBearsPrayingMessagesCharityIslamObjectivesEthicalNaiveRulingPledgeVacuumsPillarsPraying To GodTenantsSharia 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
“The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because they have to be Superior. What is different about Islam is it's not just a type of food you ate or the way you dress, it's a total system of life driven by values...” WayKindDifferentProblemValuesTypeDressesIslamDrivenSuperiorsArroganceAssumptionArrogantMulticulturalism Author:Mark Durie
“Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it creates a vision of a very different society and a hope it will be established.” PeopleDifferentFormValuesVisionExampleIslamFollowing Author:Mark Durie
“One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particular values like equality of all people before the law. Islam does not accept people are equal before the law.” PeopleDoeCountryLawValuesChallengesAcceptingHappenedParticularEqualEuropeIslam Author:Mark Durie
