Mark Durie
Author of The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom
Works by Mark Durie
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Short biography
- Dr Mark Durie is a theologian, human rights activist, Anglican pastor, a Shillman-Ginsburg Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Adjunct Research Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths at Melbourne School of Theology. He has published many articles and books on the language and culture of the Acehnese, Christian-Muslim relations and religious freedom. A graduate of the Australian National University and the Australian College of Theology, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden, MIT, UCLA and Stanford, and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992.
http://www.markdurie.com/
Members
Reviews
Here's a book to explain to you why we should be frightened of Islam. Why it's much worse than any other religion. How it preaches deception. How it imposes servitude on non-Muslims. And more. There is not a glimmer of light in the darkness. As a treatise on the notion of Dhimmitude (the deliberate discrimination against non-Muslims) it is a well-researched, authoritative work, but one comes away with the worry that every Muslim is hell-bent on world domination. If that's your opinion, this show more is the book not to undermine your prejudice.
The book needs a balancing anthropological perspective. The tendency for cultures to marginalise those who do not conform is hardly unique to Islam, even though Islam may have refined it to near perfection. My own country has had a year or two of attempting to marginalise Muslims with more subtlety than described in this book, but therefore with more hypocrisy. And more than one European country has a history of imposing taxes to support State religions. Understanding that Islam does this sort of thing too is useful. But not much more. show less
The book needs a balancing anthropological perspective. The tendency for cultures to marginalise those who do not conform is hardly unique to Islam, even though Islam may have refined it to near perfection. My own country has had a year or two of attempting to marginalise Muslims with more subtlety than described in this book, but therefore with more hypocrisy. And more than one European country has a history of imposing taxes to support State religions. Understanding that Islam does this sort of thing too is useful. But not much more. show less
An updated edition of 'Revelation: do we worship the same God?' (2010)
Statistics
- Works
- 14
- Members
- 172
- Popularity
- #124,307
- Rating
- 3.0
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 26
- Languages
- 4