Christian Lobby should tell Labor-Liberal: We’re with freedom parties

Date: February 7, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 26 Comments By MICHAEL SLOVANOSANTI-vilification and hate crime laws should protect communities from real threats, says the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) CEO Michelle Pearse. “But instead of tackling genuine concerns—like the rise of antisemitism—governments are using these laws to expand protected attributes and push radical agendas. The result? MoreContinue reading “Christian Lobby should tell Labor-Liberal: We’re with freedom parties”

Britain must return to its Christian roots, or else

John Hale The Conservative Woman February 2, 2025 The Importance of Christianity to our country should never be underestimated. It has provided the cultural underpinning that has shaped our society – until now. Without Christianity, our country would be an entirely different, far less attractive place; we can see that other, less attractive place approaching.Continue reading “Britain must return to its Christian roots, or else”

The Imams’ Guide to Reporting Massacres

Roger Franklin Quadrant Online January 4, 2025 Journalism being the imprecise craft it is, helpful hints and guidance are always welcome, which is why QoL is republishing in full these just-released thoughts from the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC). Prompted by the lethal rampage in New Orleans, ANIC’s Koranic scholars (below) caution editors and writersContinue reading “The Imams’ Guide to Reporting Massacres”

Whoppers for Allah

Peter Smith Quadrant Online December 29, 2024 I intended to respond to two readers’ comments on my last QoL piece but had troubling connecting. “Use difficulties” Michael Caine once said, re taking advantage of things going wrong on stage. So here goes. Apropos taqiyya, one reader wrote: “…when it comes to the meaning of “taqiyya,”Continue reading “Whoppers for Allah”

We Christians are exiles in a collapsing world

Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack The Conservative Woman December 29, 2024 Christianity was fundamental to the development of the West. It provided the forms of thought without which those institutions defining the West would likely never have emerged. Those institutions such as the rule of law, democracy, capitalism, science, education and the family, are being undermined byContinue reading “We Christians are exiles in a collapsing world”

The Revisionist Case That Muhammad Did Not Exist

Mervyn F. Bendle Quadrant Online December 19, 2024 Did Muhammad exist? No. And neither did the Koran for that matter, at least not in the form or with the status ascribed to it by Muslims. These are the two major conclusions of a vigorous stream of revisionist scholarship that has struggled for many decades toContinue reading “The Revisionist Case That Muhammad Did Not Exist”

A Christian revival is under way

Ayaan Hirsi Ali The Spectator Australia 14 December 2024 This is my second Christmas as a Christian. As an atheist, I had dismissed the bright lights and customs of Christmas as traditions that had evolved to keep our spirits up as the cold of winter creeps in. But the more I learn about, and participateContinue reading “A Christian revival is under way”

It is God’s will

Augusto Zimmermann The Spectator Australia 18 November 2024 The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) notes that over the past 50 years, there has been a steady decline in the proportion of Australians who report an affiliation with religion. Overall, affiliation with Christianity decreased from 52 per cent in 2016 to 44 per cent in 2021.Continue reading “It is God’s will”