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	<title>Akram's Razor</title>
	
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		<title>Jabba the Turk?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lego (about which I occasionally blog lovingly) has been accused of racism for alleged similarities between its Jabba the Hut lair set and famous Turkish mosques. Lego Accused Of Racism Amid Claims Jabba&#8217;s Palace Resembles Istanbul&#8217;s Hagia Sophia Mosque (HuffPo):  A Turkish community in Austria has accused Lego of racism amid claims a model from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amitabh Pal on nonviolence in Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listened to a very stimulating interview from a year or so ago with The Progressive Managing Editor Amitabh Pal on his book,&#8220;Islam&#8221; Means Peace: Understanding the Muslim Principle of Nonviolence Today. The interview touches on a variety of countervailing evidence to the customary assumption that Islam and Muslims are intrinsically predisposed towards violence&#8211;unlike, ahem, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conspiracy theories and “mainstream” criticism of Islam in American politics</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2013/01/conspiracy-theories-and-mainstream-criticism-of-islam-in-american-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslims in the Melting Pot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Non-Muslims and Islam]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/?p=1160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I listened to a very stimulating discussion of the underlying nature of conspiracy theories, on both ends of the political spectrum, on the invaluable Against the Grain podcast today. Against the Grain, Tuesday Jan 8, 2013: &#8220;What&#8217;s the Matter with Conspiracy Theories?&#8220;: From the assassination of JFK to a wide range of theories related to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian secularists and the “Innocence of Muslims” brouhaha</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2013/01/secularists-and-the-innocence-of-muslims-brouhaha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 07:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Muslims in the Melting Pot]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/?p=1149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a fascinating piece on the Columbia Journalism Review&#8217;s &#8220;Behind the News&#8221; blog exploring some rather unexpected culprits involved in the &#8220;Innocence of Muslims&#8221; controversy in Egypt. It documents how, contrary to what many assume, the proverbial charge was not lead by the usual, Islamist suspects, but rather by secular and Coptic Christian media outlets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fasting during pregnancy</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2013/01/fasting-during-pregnancy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women in Islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/?p=1128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[This was originally an extended postscript on last week's post, "Yuletide musings on the Ramadan shutdown," but I think the topic warrants its own post and these long postscripts on tangents are distracting. When I have a chance, I'll try to beef it up by adding some links to studies. For now, here is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuletide musings on the Ramadan shutdown</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2012/12/yuletide-musings-on-the-ramadan-shutdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Muslims in the Melting Pot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/?p=1111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A belated Merry Christmas to those playing with new toys today. Growing up a Muslim in Boston, I always resented how agonizingly bored I found myself every Christmas Day, with seemingly every business establishment but the local movie theater and occasional Chinese restaurant conspiring to deny me anything whatsoever to do. (See my 2005 post, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Apple denying Americans information about their governnment’s drone attacks?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2012/11/why-is-apple-denying-american-voters-information-about-drone-attacks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2012/11/why-is-apple-denying-american-voters-information-about-drone-attacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/?p=1090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you care about the health of American democracy and/or the large numbers of civilians being regularly killed through drone attacks in South Asia, please spread the word about the outrageous decision by Apple, Inc. to block an app mapping drone attacks from the AppStore. Please use to the action alert on Roots Action to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling the elephant in the room of doctrinal exclusivism: Thoughts from a Muslim on Brian D. McLaren’s “Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road”</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2012/09/brian-d-mclarens-why-did-jesus-moses-the-buddha-and-mohammed-cross-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2012/09/brian-d-mclarens-why-did-jesus-moses-the-buddha-and-mohammed-cross-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interfaith Dialogue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is part of an inter-faith discussion on Brian McLaren’s new book Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross the Road?, hosted at the Patheos Book Club. Reading Brian D. McLaren&#8217;s Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World&#8211;which I was invited to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haroon Mughal shows how it done on CNN</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2012/09/haroon-mughal-shows-how-it-done-on-cnn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2012/09/haroon-mughal-shows-how-it-done-on-cnn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Muslims in the Melting Pot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Haroon Mughal was on CNN yesterday eloquently providing some much needed context to the sensationalistic images of Muslim unrest over the &#8220;Innocence of Muslims&#8221; hate film that we&#8217;re seeing ad nauseam at the moment on the news. He did a wonderful job. So nice to see an articulate Muslim injecting some insight and balance into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New investigative report on H. Rap Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2012/09/new-investigative-report-on-h-rap-brown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/2012/09/new-investigative-report-on-h-rap-brown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svend White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Muslims in the Melting Pot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race Relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/akramsrazor/?p=1052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The digital news outlet that serves American Muslims Illume has just published an exhaustive and thought-provoking investigative report by Obaid H. Siddiqui on the disturbing case of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (a.k.a. H. Rap Brown). It chronicles the persecution of this civil rights icon, now imprisoned. The procedural irregularities and demonstrated bias by the authorities during his [...]]]></description>
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