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		<title>Blast kills top Iranians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A suicide bomber killed six senior Revolutionary Guards commanders, including two of its top officers, and 29 other people yesterday in one of the boldest attacks against Iran&#8217;s most powerful military institution. The attack highlighted deepening instability in a southeastern region of mainly Shi&#8217;ite Muslim Iran bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan. Many minority Sunnis live in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=476&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goldhagen&#8217;s &#8216;Worse Than War&#8217; Shows &#8216;Ordinary&#8217; People Participating Willingly, Eagerly in Eliminationism, Genocide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Jonah Goldhagen&#8217;s &#8220;Hitler&#8217;s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust&#8221; created a firestorm of controversy when it appeared in 1996. He argued that the Holocaust &#8212; Hitler&#8217;s &#8220;Final Solution &#8212; was accomplished without coercion, that &#8220;ordinary&#8221; Germans and others in countries occupied by the Nazi regime during World War II willingly &#8212; even eagerly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=474&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whose Religion Is the UN Protecting from Defamation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations is once again on the verge of introducing a resolution that undermines everything the world body supposedly stands for. The &#8220;&#8221;Defamation of Religions&#8221; resolution won&#8217;t stop the reprehensible and all too common defamation of religious belief worldwide. But it will throttle the religious liberty and personal safety of Christians and some other faith [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=472&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Delusions of terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIS wife describes a loving husband. A psychiatric report reveals a violent upbringing, serious teenage drug abuse and a descent into chronic mental illness. The police record shows a history of juvenile delinquency, a string of minor adult convictions and, finally, a guilty plea to a charge of preparing for a terrorist act. The life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=470&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 marks the eighth anniversary of September eleventh. While most Americans can recount where they were when the twin towers in New York went down, the passage of time&#8211;and the fact that there have been no terrorist attacks on American soil since 2001—has a tendency to lull many of us into a sense that everything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=468&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Poole: Why BNP will get an easy ride on Question Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANYBODY who caught Peter Hain’s rash of early-morning interviews today will surely feel immense sympathy for the BBC over their decision to grant British National Party Gruppenführer Nick Griffin a slot on this week’s Question Time. Hain’s argument, in a nutshell, is that the BNP’s policies on race and religion are so unacceptably poisonous that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=466&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Lost! We already lost the war in Afghanistan! Not admitting it is a serious mistake!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless we admit we lost the war, the bad news can only get worse. There are different degrees of defeat. Delaying signing a peace treaty could mean US troops leaving from on top of the US embassy (like in Vietnam) or even a total collapse far worse than the collapse of the Soviet Union after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=464&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: Law Review Experts Rule Out Rights for Homosexuals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi — As debate continues over the same-sex marriage of two Kenyan men in London, the team writing a new constitution on Sunday ruled out enshrining the rights of homosexuals. The Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review said it had rejected suggestions by British MPs to recognise and protect the rights of homosexuals in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=462&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bomb at market in southern Thailand wounds 24</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a bomb Monday at an open-air market in insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, wounding 24people, police said. The homemade explosive was hidden on a motorcycle parked in front of the fresh food market in downtown Yala, said army spokesman Col. Parinya Chaidilok. Three soldiers patrolling the area were also wounded in the early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=460&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catholics and Muslims defend life against abortion law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholics, Muslims, Protestants, Buddhists and Hindus have joined together to protest the liberalizing of Indonesia’s abortion laws. Although the bill has been approved by the country&#8217;s Parliament, it still needs to be signed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, reports Catholic News Agency. At a press conference at the headquarters of the Indonesian Ulemas Council in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=458&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Activists condemn victimization of Muslim youth in Nasik</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Activists condemn victimization of Muslim youth in Nasik Authorities are once again unashamedly attempting to victimize a Muslim youth with the allegation that he is “Pakistani.” Rahman Nawaz Khan, brother of noted social activist Faisal Khan, underwent humiliating and agonizing experience in Nasik at about 5:30pm on 9th of October 2009, when crime branch officials [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=456&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New film looks at birth of punk Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;ve got bands named Vote Hezbollah and Secret Trial Five. They&#8217;re Iranian-Texans, Vancouver-based lesbian Pakistanis and the converted son of a white supremacist wife-beater. They pump their fists into the air and chant &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221; And they&#8217;re punk Muslims. Huh? That was Omar Majeed&#8217;s reaction, too. He&#8217;s a Montreal-based filmmaker and his new film Taqwacore: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=454&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Education for Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another academic session has begun and parents are frantically looking for admission to ensure their wards and children benefit from the numerous educational facilities, and that they are not left out. It is for this reason that the Muslim Ummah must lend their support to enable their children to get the needed formal education to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=452&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: Muslims Press Govt Over Somali Youth Hiring</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi — Kenyan Muslims are exerting strong pressure on the country&#8217;s political leaders to state their stand on the alleged recruitment of hundreds of Kenyan youth to join Somalia war where insurgency has been raging. The government is now asked to immediately halt the ongoing recruitment of Muslim youth from Northern Kenya to fight in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=450&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t jeopardise rise of Afghan women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN a nation where women are traded for animals, female literacy is 13 per cent and medieval tribalism ensures religious and male domination and domestic violence, it is not surprising that the West associates Afghanistan with women cowering terrified in their homes. Yet such a view denies the spirit and progress that Afghan women have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=448&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Questioning the Veil by Marnia Lazreg</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are not [wo] men for whom it is a question of either-or. For us, the problem is not to make a utopian and sterile attempt to repeat the past, but go beyond it. — Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism These are the words that begin the autobiographical journey Questioning the Veil, where Marnia Lazreg, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=446&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outrage over drive to ban new minaret</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN // A poster campaign by a right-wing Swiss party to ban the construction of minarets in a referendum next month has provoked angry accusations of xenophobia in Switzerland and abroad. The poster from the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) shows a Muslim woman peering out of her black burqa in front of a mass of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=444&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CHANGING FIVE ESSENTIAL ITEMS IN YOUR WEEKLY SHOP SUPPORTS 200,000 FAMILIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Britons simply swapped five of their weekly household buys to organic and Fairtrade items, they could not only save money, but support over 200,000 families while feeding their own with wholesome choices, says organic and Fairtrade expert supplier Essential Trading. Essential Trading has been established since the 1970s and has witnessed first hand how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=442&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sukuh Temple A mystery yet to be unraveled</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compared to Borobudur or Prambanan, Java&#8217;s famous Buddhism and Hindu icons, Candi Sukuh (Sukuh temple), discovered by Sir Thomas Raffles in 1815, is not that legendary, yet it deserves a visit due because of its antiquated and unique characteristics. Located in Sukuh village, around 35 kilometers east of Surakarta, Central Java, the Javanese-Hindu temple is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=440&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Father In &#8216;Honour Killing&#8217; Trial Collapses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man who is on trial for the alleged &#8220;honour killing&#8221; of his teenage daughter has collapsed at the Old Bailey. Mehmet Goren, 49, who is on trial for the murder of his 15-year-old daughter Tulay, is understood to have collapsed as wife Hanim Goren began giving evidence as a prosecution witness. According to reports, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=438&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unity Walk Aims at Interfaith Cohesiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of Washington&#8217;s interfaith community gathered Sunday for a unity walk &#8211; an annual event aimed at promoting tolerance. Hundreds of people of different faiths visited houses of worship along a stretch of Massachusetts Avenue to learn about other religions. They also joined forces to sign up for community service. A Jewish synagogue in Washington [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=436&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Muslims: We’re seen as suspects, not citizens as suspects, not citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They face more bias than any group in America except gays, a new poll finds. MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS MINNEAPOLIS — As the FBI pursues one suspected terrorist plot after another, Muslim-Americans are grappling with a widespread sense that the government thinks they all could be terrorists. In dozens of interviews across the country, McClatchy Newspapers has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=434&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muslims in U.S. feel unfairly implicated by government</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS — As the FBI pursues one alleged terrorist plot after another, Muslim Americans are grappling with a widespread sense that the government thinks they all could be terrorists. In dozens of interviews across the country, McClatchy has found that the government’s search for the enemy within is threatening to divide and destroy America’s Muslim [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=432&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DC: Muslim Coalition to Host Interfaith Hearing on Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; On Wednesday, October 14, the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, will host an &#8220;Interfaith Hearing About Universal Health Care&#8221; on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The hearing, which will include presentations by Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist leaders and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=430&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NewGround fellows on ‘Speaking of Faith’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NewGround crew—the Jewish and Muslim fellows who participate in the joint program of the Progressive Jewish Alliance and the Muslim Public Affairs Council—spent some time in February recording conversations for StoryCorps. Last week, Krista Tippett highlighted on her NPR program “Speaking of Faith” the conversation between Malka and Aziza, who run the program. Together [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urdutimes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9820839&amp;post=428&amp;subd=urdutimes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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