FRIDAY: Mythologising the Queen | Tolerance and Islam

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MY AUSTRALIAN MUSLIM STORY: 'My childhood memories are filled with stereotypical Aussie pastimes such as backyard cricket. But as a Muslim, I do feel like an outsider at times. Why do we constantly have to be portrayed as evil people? "We're not all like that," I find myself shouting at certain news stories.' Read last year's third placed Margaret Dooley Award essay by Nadine Rabah, then enter this year's contest. $2000 in prize money to be won.

FRIDAY 1 JUNE 2012 Mythologising the Queen PHILIP HARVEY One curate in our parish claimed to dream about the royal family and believed everyone did. Any easy familiarity I had with an idealised royal family collapsed with the dismissal of the Whitlam government. Malcolm Turnbull is persuasive when he says in Australia there are now more Elizabethans than monarchists. Read more | Listen

EUREKA STREET TV Tolerance and Islam PETER KIRKWOOD The tensions that led to this week's massacre in Syria have their roots in centuries old conflict between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Progressive Shia scholar Reza Shah-Kazemi is esteemed for his vision for tolerance and dialogue with other faiths based on Quranic texts. Video interview EUREKA STREET is published daily by Jesuit Communications Australia at www.eurekastreet.com.au. It's free to subscribe, but please support our advertisers. If you would prefer to receive a weekly email, go to www.eurekastreet.com.au/subscribe.aspx. If this email does not display correctly, go to www.eurekastreet.com.au/archive.aspx. Subscribe to audio in iTunes or similar: http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/eurekastreet_podcasts.xml

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