“We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text, so we have to understand that the rulings and the legal rulings are produced are channelled through the human mind, it's an interpretive act of a human being engaging and interacting with a text producing legal results. Because of that it's susceptible to flaws, it is not perfect. Nobody has perfect access to the divine will.” NeedsMindHumansHuman BeingsPerfectResultsDivineAccessFlawsHuman MindEngagementEngagingRulingRecogniseNot PerfectSusceptibleInteractingDivine Will Author:Mark Durie
“There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.” NeedsPastReturnInvolvedOvercomingSomething NewScholarPatriarchy Author:Mark Durie
“If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia should be predicated on achieving a result that is merciful compassionate.” IfsShouldJusticePerfectResultsEffortCompassionAcceptingAchieveDivineGoodnessMercyCompassionateMercifulEpitomeShariaDivine Will 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
“Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.” WayMindHumansDifferentDifferent WaysHuman Mind Author:Mark Durie
“We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who is there. This is part of the fear mongering, that has gripped the United States, the notion that we need to pass a law forbidding the institution of a foreign Law in the United States when it is forbidden by the constitutions is yet another example of targeting Muslim communities because they are seen as different, or exceptional in other ways.” WayNeedsDifferentMatterStatesLawCommunityUnitedCitiesUnited StatesExampleConstitutionInstitutionsNotionCodeForbiddenExceptionalMuslim CommunityFear Mongering 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
“The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.” MiddleEastMiddle EastMulticulturalismRejectingOne Sided 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
“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.” MayLongSometimesHappensLastsLiteratureCausesAgreeDebateAgreementDisputesLost Friendship Author:Elbert Hubbard