Melbourne, Nov 20 : Muslim women in Australia are starting to fight back against a repressive patriarchal system in which controversial Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali is seen as a champion of women’s rights.
A conference to be held at Melbourne University will duscuss three topics -- Muslim women fight the patriarchal system, the mosque being seen as ‘increasingly irrelevant’ and an educator defending Sheikh Hilali, The Age reported.
Melbourne, Nov 20: Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, which have millions of users, are being used by extremist groups to recruit members, experts have warned.
Many experts have claimed that extremist groups use such sites to influence people via Web 2.0 tools like blogs, social networks, video sites and instant messaging.
"(These websites) are the ''killer apps'' of the internet today, and they''re used by millions, but the virus of hate certainly has infected those technologies," News. com. au quoted Christopher Wolf, chair of the International Network Against CyberHate (INACH), as telling the Global Summit on Internet Hate Speech.
Melbourne, November 19 : A nudist group have sent a petition bearing 1000 signatures to the government in support of another nude beach in Sydney.
The demand to have the right to bare it all had been backed by most of the public who favoured the notion with 91 percent of their votes in the Southern Courier online poll, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Melbourne, Nov 19 : A man ‘pleasuring himself’ by immersing his penis in a pasta sauce jar has been fined for indecent behaviour, a court has heard.
New South Wales man Keith Roy Weatherley was still pleasuring himself while resisting arrest.
Weatherley, who pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction, was convicted and fined 600 dollars.
According to the Newcastle Herald, Police went on a brief, slow-speed car chase to catch after they suspected Weatherley, while he was parked in a no-stopping zone near Nobby''s Beach on October 26.
Melbourne, Nov 19 : English actor Daniel Craig tried his hand at playing the new videogame version of ‘Quantum of Solace’, and almost ended up getting his alter ego killed.
Craig, who happens to be a videogame fanatic, was very enthusiastic about the game, though its developer Garrett Young revealed that the James Bond star was nervous about how he would look in a videogame.
“But once he saw it, he was happy and much more comfortable,” News. com. au quoted Young as saying.
Melbourne, Nov. 19 : Australian golf champion has become victim of America''s sagging real estate market.
Just months after ex-wife Laura Andrassy won a US 103 million dollar bitter divorce battle, Norman has been forced to slash the asking price for the former couple''s Florida mansion from US65 million dollars to US47.5 million dollars, a hit of US 27 million dollars.
If Norman secures US47.5 million dollars for the four-bedroom oceanfront estate on the millionaire''s paradise of Jupiter Island, he will break the record for the most expensive sale in the area, eclipsing the US44.5 million dollars Tiger Woods paid for a nearby mansion in 2006, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Melbourne, Nov 20 : Muslim women in Australia are starting to fight back against a repressive patriarchal system in which controversial Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali is seen as a champion of women’s rights.
Melbourne, November 19 : A nudist group have sent a petition bearing 1000 signatures to the government in support of another nude beach in Sydney.
Melbourne, Nov 19 : English actor Daniel Craig tried his hand at playing the new videogame version of ‘Quantum of Solace’, and almost ended up getting his alter ego killed.
