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	<description>I&#039;m an American Muslimah of a certain age with some pretty strong opinions. Feel free to agree or disagree. You won&#039;t hurt my feelings.</description>
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		<title>When &#8220;Bad&#8221; Things Happen to Good People</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 18:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Peace be upon you, and the Mercy of Allah and His Blessings I think every person of faith has struggled with the issue of suffering.  Why do we suffer?  Why must we suffer?  What good is served by suffering?  If you are not currently suffering, if your life [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Islam Hates Us?  Sweetie, I am &#8220;Us&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Salaamu Alaikum and hello all. You would think with the amount of time Donald Drumpf spends with his foot in his mouth that he wouldn’t manage to spit out so many verbal faux pas.  I guess that he manages since he is able to talk out of both sides of his face at once. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In Honor of International Women&#8217;s Day I&#8217;m Taking My Kids to the Doctor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Qualls-Shehata]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Salaamu Alaikum – Peace be upon you – and howdy all. So today is International Women’s Day?  Hmm, managed to forget to put that on my calendar.  Well, I’ll try to celebrate anyway.  I got off to a good start.  I made an empowering pot of coffee and indulged myself by using real half [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I Really Hate Politics, But&#8230;.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Qualls-Shehata]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Salaamu Alaikum – Peace be upon you – and hello all. I have mostly remained silent here on my blog about the political circus that is revolving around us.  First of all, I would like to reassure all the other countries in the world that the United States is totally not a country full of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Our Job to Save the World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Qualls-Shehata]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Salaam Alaikum and howdy all.  Today is Jumuah, the day of the congregational prayer.  All over the world, Muslim men, and many Muslim women as well, will be preparing for the prayer, or have already gone depending on what part of the world they are in.  Pretty breathtaking when you think about, everyone turning to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Are the Limits of Friendship with Non-Muslims?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Qualls-Shehata]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Peace be upon you, and the Mercy of Allah and His Blessings. Howdy all!  It is Saturday, February 13.  And you know what that means – only two days until all that Valentine’s candy goes on sale!  Whoooo! But seriously, folks. Today’s video blog (does anyone [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does Islam Oppress Women?  (Spoiler: No)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Qualls-Shehata]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 22:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Peace be upon you, and the Mercy of Allah and His Blessings Okay, so I’m trying to do a series on common misconceptions in Islam.  I don’t want to write another dry, scholarly article, because you’ll be bored and your eyes will roll up into the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Catching up on things before the Super Bowl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Qualls-Shehata]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 14:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Peace be upon you, and the Mercy of Allah and His Blessings Good morning everyone!  It is a cold but decent Saturday morning here in the ‘Burg.  The sun shines intermittently between the clouds, the dirty frosty remains of Snowzilla are gone from all but the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Convert or Die! &#8211; Not a Muslim Thing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Qualls-Shehata]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, one of the big issues for non-Muslims is that they think that we Muslims will convert non-Muslims by force.  “Islam was spread by the sword” is a common mistaken belief.  Here’s a real quote: “There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong. So [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is the God of the Muslims a moon god? (Spoiler: No)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Qualls-Shehata]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That Arabic thingy up there says “As Salaamu Alaikum”, which means “Peace be upon you”.  Don’t want anyone to be scared after that really weird situation in Virginia. Okay, the first and biggest misconception about Islam is about the nature of Allah, God. Many non-Muslims think that our God is a different God from theirs. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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