Amir Butler

Amir Butler is an author and engineer, as well as the executive director of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee (AMPAC), co-convenor of the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network (AMCRAN) and frequent media commentator on social and political issues. Born in the United Kingdom, he currently lives in Melbourne, Australia where he writes regularly for such publications as The Age, Herald Sun, Antiwar.com, Japan Times, Asia Times, and The Jakarta Post.

In 2002, Butler founded a now-defunct web magazine called ATrueWord.com with Ismail Royer and Shibli Zaman.

Amir Butler's views on muslims in Australia are quoted by his peers in the Australian media, sometimes critically. Butler has also been cited in the UK Parliament and in the NSW Parliament as an authority with views on legislation to do with vilification based on religion.

In regards to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2006, he told the Age "I've seen all of the cartoons and not all of them are offensive," although adding that some cartoons would be offensive to all Muslims and that editors should have predicted the ferocious reaction. Amir pointed out that Muslim Governments have also made use of the reaction of their citizens for their own political reasons.

In March 2007, he started blogging at MuslimMatters.org, where he is a guest-writer.

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