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		<title>A Convert’s Story – How Becoming a Muslim is a Work in Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 22:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephanie Luna Wallace &#8220;Noni, Mami has a prayer shirt, and I have a prayer hat. Don&#8217;t you have one?&#8221; That&#8217;s how my mother discovered I had converted to Islam. I had been praying the five daily prayers for three months, and my four-year-old finally found a way to communicate my new habit. Certainly not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for Adoption in Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/?p=5261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Yusra Gomaa “H-H-Hello, Asalaamu’alaykum. Umm, my name is Amna and I have two young children. The state is terminating my parental rights, and there’s nothing I can do. I didn’t know who else to call. I have one month to find someone before they go up for adoption. Can you please help me find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Marathon Bombing – Why Increased Profiling of American Muslims is Not the Answer</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/05/boston-marathon-bombing-why-increased-profiling-of-american-muslims-is-not-the-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 16:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hesham Hassaballa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/?p=5258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hesham A. Hassaballa Almost as soon as the horrific Boston Marathon bombing suspects were revealed to be Muslim, the cheerleaders for increased profiling of Muslims in America came out in full force. The &#8220;king&#8221; of them, pun fully intended, was none other than New York Congressman Peter King, who said: “Obviously the main international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Marathon Bombings – When Religious Acceptance, Tolerance and Love is Needed Most</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/04/boston-marathon-bombings-when-religious-acceptance-tolerance-and-love-is-needed-most/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/?p=5254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carissa Flint It has been a little over one week since the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, and I observed my moment of silence yesterday. As an Oklahoman, my moment of silence was not simply restricted to remembering the child, the graduate student, the young woman, and the MIT police officer who died, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord, Be My Witness – The Irrationality of Shia-Sunni Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/?p=5250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Maher Hathout There are words to be said that ought to be heard.  In the face of the tidal wave of blindness, cruelty and the frenzy of fanaticism that is sweeping the world of Muslims, the different manifestations of this sad situation must be frankly addressed.  The most dangerous of these is the widening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why #MyJihad Doesn’t Engage with Islamophobes Like Pamela Geller</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/04/why-myjihad-doesnt-engage-with-islamophobes-like-pamela-geller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/?p=5247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Angie Emara I am writing this as an opportunity to clarify the misconceptions, misreporting and misunderstanding surrounding the #MyJihad campaign, of which, I am the project coordinator and essentially lead day-in and da- out. And night. And in my dreams. So really, not many others can give you the straight deal on this campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the War of the Billboards, Islamophobe Pamela Gellar is Winning</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/04/in-the-war-of-the-billboards-islamophobe-pamela-gellar-is-winning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/?p=5242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Davi Barker The billboard wars continue on, the latest clash recently being in San Francisco. Every so often Anti-Muslim demagogue, Pam Geller blows a wad of cash on an ad (hominem) campaign against Islam, or at least critical of the boogeyman Muslims she imagines under her bed. I call this “the billboard wars” because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Family Guy’ Skewers Islam, but Misses its Comedic Mark</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/04/family-guy-skewers-islam-but-misses-its-comedic-mark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/?p=5236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By A. David Lewis The Family Guy episode entitled “Turban Cowboy,” which aired Sunday, March 17 on FOX, had Peter becoming Muslim less as a plot line and more so as a gimmick. His latest near-death experience left Peter looking for more in his life: While recovering in the hospital from a flagpole through his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘Gay-Muslim’ Phenomenon – Why Islam Considers Homosexuality a Sin</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/03/the-gay-muslim-phenomenon-why-islam-considers-homosexuality-a-sin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/03/the-gay-muslim-phenomenon-why-islam-considers-homosexuality-a-sin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dilshad Ali</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/?p=5230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Altmuslim published two viewpoints on homosexuality in Islam and thoughts about equality in marriage, which is being debated by the Supreme Court. The first, which argues that homosexuality and marriage for homosexuals should be accepted in Islam, is from Pamela Taylor. The second, which argues that homosexuality is a sin in Islam, is from Gareth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On DOMA, Proposition 8, Homosexuality and My Progressive Islamic Viewpoint</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/03/on-doma-proposition-8-homosexuality-and-my-progressive-islamic-viewpoint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Altmuslim published two viewpoints on homosexuality in Islam and thoughts about equality in marriage, which is being debated by the Supreme Court. The first, which argues that homosexuality and marriage for homosexuals should be accepted in Islam, is from Pamela Taylor. The second, which argues that homosexuality is a sin in Islam, is from Gareth [...]]]></description>
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