Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.

It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.