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		<title>News and Analysis (9/9/10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Terry Jones giving aid and comfort to the enemy? &#8220;Only God knows if there will be another such an opportunity to defend our religion and Koran,&#8221; says an insurgent pamphlet &#8230; Exclusive: Afghan Insurgents Use Planned Koran Burning to Turn Villagers Against U.S. (abc News) &#8230; and as Evangelical leaders seek to dissuade Jones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3811</link>
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		<title>News and Analysis (9/8/10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is regrettable that a pastor &#8230; with a church of no more than 50 people can make this outrageous and distrustful, disgraceful plan and get the world&#8217;s attention&#8230;. It is &#8230; not who we are.&#8221; &#8212; Sec. of State Hilary Clinton: Clinton: Planned Qur&#8217;an Burning Not the American Way (AP / Washington Post) Koran-Burning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3800</link>
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		<title>News and Analysis (9/7/10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Arthur Waskow reminds us that &#8220;Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people&#8221;: 5 Steps to Burning Books (Shalom Center) &#8220;On one hand, 9/11 is a very difficult day for us, and on then other hand, Eid is like our Christmas, it&#8217;s a day for celebration,&#8221; says Zeba Iqbal, Executive Director [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3791</link>
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		<title>News and Analyis (9/3/10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelantan province fights monetary irresponsibility with its minting of dinars, because  &#8220;a piece of paper &#8230; is just an IOU&#8221;: Malaysian Muslims Go for Gold, But It&#8217;s Hard to Make Change (Wall Street Journal) A ham-handed government attempt to smear the Muslim Brotherhood backfires, &#8220;turning a dinosaur into a living political phenomenon&#8221;: Egypt TV show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3782</link>
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		<title>Netanyahu Treats Negotiations Like a Joke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his remarks at the State Department on Sept. 2, Benyamin Netanyahu made a joke out of the peace negotiations by urging his counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, to adopt the position that &#8220;There is no contradiction between a nation-state that guarantees the national rights of the majority and guaranteeing the civil rights, the full civil equality, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3784</link>
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		<title>News and Analysis (9/2/10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As anti-Muslim hysteria in the US reaches a peak, its intellectual accomplices should start to reconsider their actions&#8221;: When Will Those Brave Critics of Islam Decry This Mob Hate? (Guardian) Are we talking about Abercrombie and Fitch or Hooters? Confronted by the EEOC, company lawyers said allowing the employee to cover her hair &#8220;&#8216;would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3775</link>
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		<title>News and Analysis (9/1/10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paranoia and ignorance leads to the detainment of members of a Pakistani delegation by the Transport Security Administration en route to Washington, all because another passenger &#8220;did not feel safe&#8221;: Military Officers Cancel Trip After Humiliation At US Airport (Dawn) As an IDF officer was acquitted on the charges of killing a 13-year-old Palestinian girl; the military court ruled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3769</link>
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		<title>News and Analysis (8/31/10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You catch more flies with &#8220;non-coercive intelligence interviewing&#8221; than you can with waterboarding: Guide Tells How Terrorism Suspect Became Informant (Washington Post) Sharing the archaic view that marriage conflicts with education, lawmakers move to address the problem by taking the right to marry away from young women 15-17, adults under Islamic law but not under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3761</link>
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		<title>News and Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One very young Iraqi earned an American officer&#8217;s  fond respect &#8230; As U.S. troops Leave Iraq, an Officer Honors the Memory of a Young Interpreter (Washington Post) &#8230; but Iraqis have little confidence in politicians who &#8220;fight over positions and have no idea what we eat and drink and where we live&#8221;: As U.S. Withdraws, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3758</link>
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		<title>News and Analysis (8/27/10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The last few weeks have seen an intense push by the Israeli right and their neocon enablers in the US to essentially &#8216;jam&#8217; Obama into either attacking Iran or letting Israel do so;&#8221; Jeffrey Goldberg&#8217;s  Atlantic cover is Exhibit A: Iran Bomb &#8216;Not Imminent&#8217; (Al-Jazeera) The &#8220;level of rhetoric has become so poisonous that we could end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.minaret.org/?p=3751</link>
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