From the ABC News. A 7.30 investigation has uncovered a secretive and radical program operating inside an Islamic book store in western Sydney, which is encouraging young Muslims to fight in Syria. The concerns of authorities have been heightened by the bloody conflict in Syria, which has become a magnet and a new training ground … More Sheikh, rattle and roll
As a rule people have been allowed to post comments without fear of being deleted or censored. Unfortunately we tend to get heated here at signposts02, and this can result in people starting to name call…none of us have been immune to this. Some of us (*nervously shuffles feet kicking the dust*) are more prone … More Updated commenting policy
The claim on this and other sites by some commenters is that the ‘War on Terror’ actually created an environment for jihadists to be recruited and radicalised. Of course, this has to have some serious merit. But what is behind this radicalisation, and why do the imams and jihad generals use it as a pretext … More Op Ed: Modern jihad recruitment predates 9/11
Happy Friday folks. The NSW Government is determined to expand retail trading on Boxing Day, impacting on work-family, work-community and work-faith balance of up to 90 000 retail workers and their families. Sydney Alliance is working with the Take the Time campaign to protect work-family balance. This web based survey being circulated currently has 121 … More NSW Government push to open retailing on previously sacred non retailing days
So the political left in the US is fair-minded and the only reasonable, intelligent group worth listening to? Well, of course, if you consider yourself to be the liberal intellectual heart-beat of America, you would have to think this and, thus, feel justified as you stealthily eliminate, in your imagination, any potential opposition. The problem … More How the US left politically hampered conservatives…
Exclusive: A cub scout leader confronted terrorists just seconds after they had beheaded a soldier asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: “It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose.” By Claire Duffin 9:55PM BST 22 May 2013 A mother-of-two described tonight how she put her own life … More Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: ‘We want to start a war in London tonight’
OPINION Steph JuddABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 22 MAY 2013 BY WARNING KEVIN RUDD THAT HIS CHANGE OF HEART ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS “BURNING BRIDGES” WITH THE CHRISTIAN CONSTITUENCY, THE ACL WAS ACTUALLY WARNING THE COALITION NOT TO FOLLOW SUIT. When Kevin Rudd wrote on his blog on Monday night that he had changed his mind … More What Christian constituency? Which burnt bridges? Kevin Rudd, the ACL and same-sex marriage
Tuesday May 21, 2013 The Prime Minister who rightly gave an apology to the stolen generation has sadly not thought through the fact that his new position on redefining marriage will create another. Australian Christian Lobby Managing Director Lyle Shelton said Kevin Rudd’s overnight change of mind on redefining marriage ignored the consequence of robbing … More Rudd’s change on marriage sets up a new stolen generation
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