Mark Durie

Dr. Mark Durie is a theologian, human rights activist and pastor of an Anglican church. He has published many articles and books on the language and culture of the Acehnese, Christian-Muslim relations and religious freedom.

Op-Eds

A Q&A Primer on Hamas; Part 1: What Is Hamas?

By Mark Durie

The Hamas Charter cites the words of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan Al-Banna: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it."

Op-Eds / Analysis

Islamic Antisemitism Drives the Arab-Israeli Conflict

By Mark Durie

To look at the Jews through the frame of the Qur'an is to see them as contemptible, weak, cowardly-yet-warmongering, treacherous losers.

Analysis

The Ramadan Olympics and Islam's 'Law of Necessity'

By Mark Durie

What distinguishes a jihadi terrorist from a more peaceful Muslim may not be any fundamental difference in belief, but, as in the West, merely in a given instance, how the religious legal principles of his faith should be applied.