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	<title>Crikey &#187; islam</title>
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		<title>Richardson: if this isn&#8217;t terrorism, what is?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/25/richardson-if-this-isnt-terrorism-what-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/25/richardson-if-this-isnt-terrorism-what-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norway massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the horror of Friday's slaughter in Norway, there has been the secondary shock of what it has revealed about so much of the west's attitude to terrorism.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bracing for the name of the perpetrator &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/25/crikey-says-bracing-for-the-name-of-the-perpetrator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/25/crikey-says-bracing-for-the-name-of-the-perpetrator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norway killings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norway massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norway tragedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oslo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=237390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Considering the knee jerk coverage from some of the world's media outlets over the weekend, this is worth the click.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The ideology dividing both parties</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/17/policies-and-personalities-causing-grief-on-both-sides/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/17/policies-and-personalities-causing-grief-on-both-sides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Ferguson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Morrison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uranium]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=204374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ideology and personalities are usually the stumbling blocks to political unity. But they work in quite different ways in the Liberal and Labor parties.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Danish newspaper still draws terror controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/five-suspects-arrested-over-danish-cartoon-massacre-plot-2171792.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/five-suspects-arrested-over-danish-cartoon-massacre-plot-2171792.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=195126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It might have been five years since a Danish newspaper published cartoons of Mohamed the Prophet, but five suspects have been arrested in a suspected foiled terror plot against its offices.]]></description>
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		<title>A pro-Islam bias in Texan schools?</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/education/23texas.html?_r=1&#038;hp</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/education/23texas.html?_r=1&#038;hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas Board of Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA WTF]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=174273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Texas Board of Education think that the current prescribed school textbooks are too pro-Muslim and anti-Christian in their focus. A worthy recipient of our <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/topic/usa-wtf/">'USA: WTF?'</a> tag, we think.]]></description>
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		<title>Praying for peace: the Muslim prayer room in the Twin Towers</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/nyregion/11religion.html?_r=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/nyregion/11religion.html?_r=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ground Zero mosque]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Trade Center]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=171201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The twin towers of the World Trade Center held a Muslim prayer room, a popular and calm place. It's an important fact to remember amongst all the mosque near Ground Zero vitriol: Muslims and Islam have always been a part of life there.]]></description>
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		<title>Manhattan mosque sparks nationwide debate</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08mosque.html?_r=2&#038;hp</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08mosque.html?_r=2&#038;hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tea Party movement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=162638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Approval for a new mosque to be built near ground zero in Manhattan has sparked furious debate about democratic values and religious freedoms across the US. The Tea Party are out in force, bringing dogs and picket signs to Muslim prayer meetings. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fresh calls from Fred Nile to ban the burqa</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/25/fresh-calls-from-nile-to-ban-the-burqa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/25/fresh-calls-from-nile-to-ban-the-burqa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Saville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burqa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Nile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=148526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anti-burqa advocate New South Wales MP Reverend Fred Nile has introduced a private members bill to the state's parliament in his latest attempt to ban people from wearing full-face covering in public places. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>What sparked the attack on the cartoonist?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/21/crikey-clarifier-what-sparked-the-attack-on-the-cartoonist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/21/crikey-clarifier-what-sparked-the-attack-on-the-cartoonist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 03:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey Intern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Clarifier]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prophet Mohammad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waleed Aly]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=139349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks was attacked last week for depicting the prophet Mohammed as a dog. Why the sensitivity? Academic and broadcaster Waleed Aly explains everything to <i>Crikey</i> intern <b>Matt de Neef</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Atheists and conservatives hide behind the veil</title>
		<link>http://web.overland.org.au/2010/05/19/what-your-atheism-costs-you/</link>
		<comments>http://web.overland.org.au/2010/05/19/what-your-atheism-costs-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 03:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[burqa ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cory Bernardi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=140396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Calls to ban the burqa come from both the conservative and liberal sides of the fence. But a possible ban has nothing to do with women's liberation and everything to do with defending the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, writes <b>Jacinda Woodhead</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Make cartoons, not war: how Muslims should protest</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/michaelpeck/2010/05/20/this-is-how-muslims-should-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/michaelpeck/2010/05/20/this-is-how-muslims-should-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=140313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day">Everybody Draw Mohammed Day</a>, a group at a US university walked around drawing stick figures of Muhammed on the pavement. The Muslim Students Association drew boxing gloves over them, turning the figures into mini Muhammed Alis. Smart move.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mocking Mohammad: just because we can, doesn&#8217;t mean we should</title>
		<link>http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8894/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8894/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 00:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cartoonists]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=139942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammed-Day/121369914543425#!/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammed-Day/121369914543425?v=wall">Everybody Draw Mohammad Day</a> on Facebook, with bloggers around the world sketching lewd pictures of the prophet to protest censorship. But is this really about free speech, or just an excuse to be a jerk?]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of the burqa bandits infiltrating parliament</title>
		<link>http://newmatilda.com/2010/05/11/crossdressing-burqa-bandits</link>
		<comments>http://newmatilda.com/2010/05/11/crossdressing-burqa-bandits#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 02:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=137419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Liberal senator Cory Bernardi has <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2892060.htm">called</a> for a burqa ban in Australia. Great, I have to weigh in on this ridiculous old "un-Australian" argument against Muslims <em>again</em>? asks <b>Shakira Hussein</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Cory Bernardi&#8217;s sinister plot to ban the burqa</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/07/corey-bernardis-sinister-plot-to-ban-the-burqa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/07/corey-bernardis-sinister-plot-to-ban-the-burqa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 03:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[burqa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=136562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Corey Bernadi’s call to ban the burqa is more sinister than many other similar calls around the world. Do his comments amount to religious vilification?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cory Bernardi: Ban the burqa</title>
		<link>http://www.corybernardi.com/2010/05/ban-the-burqa.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.corybernardi.com/2010/05/ban-the-burqa.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 23:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=136433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SA Liberal Senator <b>Cory Bernardi</b> says Australia should ban the burqa, so it can't be used as a disguise by "bandits" when they rob banks and mug people.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Hitler responsible for Islamic extremism?</title>
		<link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7613925/Roots-of-Islamic-fundamentalism-lie-in-Nazi-propaganda-for-Arab-world-book-claims.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7613925/Roots-of-Islamic-fundamentalism-lie-in-Nazi-propaganda-for-Arab-world-book-claims.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new book claims the roots of Islamic fundamentalism can be traced back to Nazi radio broadcasts across the Middle East during WWII.]]></description>
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		<title>Undercover in Yemen&#8217;s radical mosques</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/100308/al-qaeda-yemen-islam-convert</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/100308/al-qaeda-yemen-islam-convert#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For four years, American writer Theo Padnos went deep undercover into the world of radical Islam in Yemen. But his cover was blown last year, and now he's speaking out about his experiences.]]></description>
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		<title>Sheridan: Ban the burqa</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/frances-burka-ban-a-boost-for-equality/story-e6frg6zo-1225826508079</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/frances-burka-ban-a-boost-for-equality/story-e6frg6zo-1225826508079#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[burqa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigrants must adhere to and embrace the values of their adopted countries, says <b>Greg Sheridan</b>. In western societies, like France and Australia, that means equality for women, and burqas have no place.]]></description>
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		<title>Iran on the brink of civil war</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/29/iran-weary-fractious-violence</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/29/iran-weary-fractious-violence#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=108249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not a revolution that seems inevitable for Iran, but rather civil war and social breakdown as the government and opposition divide the nation along religious and political lines. <b>Abbas Barzegar</b> reports from Iran.]]></description>
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		<title>How India could fall to militant Muslims</title>
		<link>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KL17Ad01.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KL17Ad01.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamic extremism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Pakistan fails, its territory and population could be consumed by India -- adding 180 millions Muslims to the country, many of them a little upset about the loss of a Pakistani state. Throw in some radical Hindu nationalists and neo-Maoist guerrillas, and you've got a recipe for disaster.]]></description>
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		<title>Freidman: Islam needs a civil war</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/opinion/16friedman.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/opinion/16friedman.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[islamic extremism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The West can't defeat the ideology of militant Islam, says <b>Thomas Friedman</b>: only other Muslims can. The Islamic world needs a war over ideas akin to that of the US civil war, the fight out the extremist minority. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Islamic veil: prayer, prison, protection</title>
		<link>http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/1213/Behind-the-veil-Why-Islam-s-most-visible-symbol-is-spreading</link>
		<comments>http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/1213/Behind-the-veil-Why-Islam-s-most-visible-symbol-is-spreading#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hijab]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[veil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic veil is perhaps the most powerful piece of cloth in history, dividing opinions and provoking strong emotions of both fear and faith all over the world. <em>CSM</em> meets the women behind the veil: who wears it -- and why? ]]></description>
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		<title>The implications of the Minaret vote bleeds outside Switzerland&#8217;s borders</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/01/the-implications-of-the-minaret-vote-bleeds-outside-switzerlands-borders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/01/the-implications-of-the-minaret-vote-bleeds-outside-switzerlands-borders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Swiss referendum]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=102218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Swiss ban on Islamic Minarets sends the message that the rights of religious minorities are subject to the whim of the majority, writes <b>Shakira Hussein</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Switzerland sticks its head in the sand</title>
		<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574565674154159110.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</link>
		<comments>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574565674154159110.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minarets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosques]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[religious intolerance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Swiss have voted to ban the construction of new Minarets -- the prayer towers on Islamic mosques -- in the country. It will achieve nothing except further European intolerance towards Muslim migrants, says the <em>WSJ</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey debates a deal with terrorists</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/turkey-debates-a-deal-with-terrorists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/turkey-debates-a-deal-with-terrorists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamic law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey's government is showing that an "Islamist" party can become a force for democracy and progress, challenging so many of our usual assumptions about Muslims, terrorism and the Middle East.]]></description>
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