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Irfan Yusuf

Irfan Yusuf is a New South Wales-based lawyer with a practice focusing on workplace relations and commercial dispute resolution.

Irfan is also a regular media commentator on a variety of social, political, human rights, media and cultural issues. He has appeared on local and national radio and TV in Australia and New Zealand. Irfan’s opinion pieces and book reviews have been published in over 15 national, metropolitan and regional newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and Brunei.

Irfan Yusuf's book, Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo-Fascist, was published in May 2009 by Allen & Unwin.

Irfan is associate editor of AltMuslim.com, and is also a regular contributor to Crikey.com.au, NewMatilda.com and Malaysiakini.com. He also is a regular speaker and has delivered seminars for organisations such as the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre and the Institute of Public Administration of Australia.

Irfan’s main blogs are Planet Irf and Madhab Irfy.

Author's website: Madhab al-Irfy - blog


 
Legacy of a whingeing bogan
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The great faction fiction
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Sweet Jesus, not another 'ragger'
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Gentleman's game no more
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'Unimagined: a Muslim boy meets the West'
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Choice is all very well, but not at the expense of education
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Falling into the whirlpool of radical Islam
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Prejudiced pundits fuss over sharia
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Diversity the destination for journey into Islam
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Sidelining the loud-mouthed cultural warriors
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Racism makes monkey of 'gentleman's game'
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Fault lines of a nation
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Believing the worst
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A costly solution for small business
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Ilhan's Islam: honesty, integrity and generosity
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The Islamist ...
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Too alarmed to be alert
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Why all the fuss?
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Darling of cultural warriors
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What’s good for the Islamic goose is clearly not good for the Catholic gander
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Our great Judeo-Christian tradition
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A sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds
The Arts - 15/05/2007
Fair cop on media ruling, Mr Jones
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Try Kiwi values, mate
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Lesson of loathing
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Bigots shield behind conservative facade
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Misreported, misconstrued, mistranslated, misunderstood
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Book review: 'A Caged Virgin'
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Misguided and misogynistic religiosity
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If you can't stand the missionary heat, you should get out of Abraham's spiritual kitchen
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Waging a cultural revolutionary war
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Shakespeare and Islam shape life for roving Anwar
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The blame game
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Lies as a pretext for war
International - 29/06/2006 - 200 comments
Zarqawi’s war
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Indonesia's city of soul in mourning
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Honest sleaze or bigoted shock jock?
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Musings on Easter
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Drawing wrong conclusions
International - 6/04/2006 - 10 comments
Whatever happened to 'no compulsion in religion'?
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Sophis? Glam? Bloody oath!
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Sharing the true values of Sharia
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An ignorant Australian?
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Danish cartoons: Muslims in their own Dark Age
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Family, friends and a sense of real unity
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Advance Australia not so fair
Society - 13/12/2005 - 109 comments
Accept it - Australia is secular, liberal, democratic
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Bridging the cultural gap in a swimsuit
Religion & Spirituality - 24/11/2005 - 15 comments
Migrant Muslim leaders should bow out
Religion & Spirituality - 14/11/2005 - 97 comments
Iran's infantile attitude to Israel
International - 3/11/2005 - 39 comments
Just shoot me?
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Some thoughts on the Bali bombing
International - 5/10/2005 - 131 comments
Conservatism, family, religion and wedges
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Mrs Bishop and the cloth
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Let the man teach!
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Stoning the Aussie Mossie?
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Send Muslims home? Fine, I'll go to East Ryde
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To London Muslims - speak out or be condemned for your silence
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My Jewish aunty
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Ending oppression in Pakistan
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A Shaykh dies
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Lawyers will turn Howard’s industrial nirvana into employer hell
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Justifying rape? Most Muslims won't defend the indefensible
Religion & Spirituality - 13/05/2005 - 34 comments
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