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Do shoot-to-kill orders make sense?

William Keenan | 05 August 2005

British police killed an innocent man on a morning communter train, thinking that he might have been a suicide bomber. It was a tragic and unnecessary blunder.

Betraying British Muslims

Christopher Martin | 22 July 2005 | 1

In the wake of the London bombings, there is much talk of the religious intolerance of British Muslims. What about the religious intolerance of the anti-Censorship crowd?

Will the true Islam please stand up?

Martin Fitzgerald | 17 December 2004 | 1

Do Osama bin Laden and his murderous associates speak for all Muslims? Or are there many voices of Islam?

Towards a democracy of hope

Michael Cook | 17 December 2004

The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, is a controversial figure in Australia. But he has won the respect of the media with his straightforward manner and the strength of his intellect. He recently published a stimulating article on the future of democracy in one of Australia's leading journals, Quadrant. MercatorNet caught up with him not long after he returned from an interfaith conference in Indonesia sponsored by the Australian Government.

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