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...mufti also told his flock that women, by the way they dress and act, were to blame for sexual assault. When the comments were reported in late October by the Australian newspaper, the nation's leaders condemned Hilali. After he apologized, claiming his words were taken out of context, Hilali fell into the arms of his physicians. He rode out the storm behind a floral wall his supporters had laid out for him at a Sydney hospital. Again, the questions came: Is Islam anti-women? Can Muslims be true to their faith and practice Australian values? Has multiculturalism and tolerance...
...terms “papist” and “communist.” Like those almost-forgotten slurs, the n-word has lost some—but not all—of the force it once had since it is so rarely used in its original context...
...that's not really its main point. What Bennett most wants to show us is that Hector's homosexuality is preferable to the more closeted variety practiced by the extremely smooth Irwin. Bennett is also arguing, in his quiet and very civilized way, that especially in the context of an English public school almost a quarter of a century ago, homosexuality was not a very big deal. Bennett, who is an openly gay writer, accepts it as a part of life - particularly as a part of life in English public schools - something the boys come to terms with in essentially...
...uneasy responses to this cowboy are telling, since a lot of the movie’s revelry in Muslim “backwardness” remains awkwardly below the surface. Many of the gags, in fact, are not dependent on an explicit understanding of the movie within the context of the West’s recent encounters with Islam...
...with the Australians on the eve of the rematch, a five-Test series beginning in Brisbane on Nov. 23. Even for the crustier fans of both countries, an Ashes contest may never have been more tantalizing. Part of its allure is that it will put the preceding one in context. Was the 2005 result an aberration, a consequence of many things falling for England in a way that won't possibly happen again? Or was it the beginning of the end for an Australian dynasty now running on old legs and bravado...