“[T]he conflict is so clear, so stark there is no middle ground,” said Usman Badar, who in 2005 was President of the Muslim Student Association at Sydney University. “How do you come to middle ground on whether sovereignty belongs to the people or to Allah? You can’t.” Schools down under have begun welcoming Badar and other speakers who, as Sydney Morning Herald reporter Miranda Devine wrote on Sunday, “appear to be fully assimilated, second-generation Australians” who wear conventional Western clothing and speak fluently in “broad Australian accents” as well as Arabic. “But they belong to a political group called Hizb...
