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	<title>5-Pillar Column &#187; Islamic</title>
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		<title>ISLAM NOT AN ISSUE IN AZERBAIJAN’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/islam-not-an-issue-in-azerbaijan%e2%80%99s-presidential-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affirming that &#8220;equal conditions&#8221; have already been established for all religions in Azerbaijan, Alibayli, a former advisor to the late President Abulfaz Elchibey, maintained that restrictions on &#8220;free praying&#8221; or police forcing Muslim men to shave their beards &#8220;should be considered as a human rights violation&#8221; alone.
Arif Yunus, author of &#8220;Islam in Azerbaijan&#8221;, however, believes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8601&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIGHTS-US:  Muslim Charity to Get Its Day in Court</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/rights-us-muslim-charity-to-get-its-day-in-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hina Shamsi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Emergency Economic Powers Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge James G. Carr]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what appears to be another stunning legal rebuke to President George W. Bush&#8217;s policies in the &#8220;global war on terrorism&#8221;, a federal judge has blocked the government from blacklisting a Muslim-oriented charity to give the group a chance to defend itself after its assets were frozen almost three years ago. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Three arrested over Muslim book fire</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/three-arrested-over-muslim-book-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA["The Jewel of Medina"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gibson Square Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prophet Muhammad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The offices of Gibson Square Books are believed to have been targeted by Islamic extremists because they are publishing a novel about the child bride of Muhammad. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Credit Crunch &#8216;Will Help Islamic Banking&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/credit-crunch-will-help-islamic-banking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With usury from loans banned by Islam, the leverage &#8211; or, more simply, the amount of money owed &#8211; by Islamic financial institutions also tends to be lower.
&#8220;Further growth of Islamic banking in the UK will also be attributed to their more conservative approach to financing, as the risks are shared with the investor…it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7440&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Court: Monitoring Muslim visitors was legal</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/court-monitoring-muslim-visitors-was-legal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arabs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Security Entry-Exit Registration System]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sept. 11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One major threat of terrorist attacks comes from radical Islamic groups,&#8221; the court said. &#8220;The Sept. 11 attacks were facilitated by violations of immigration laws by aliens from predominantly Muslim nations. The program was clearly tailored to those facts.&#8221;
The program was part of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, meant to improve the monitoring of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7337&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indo-Israeli Lobbies Obstruct Cultural Cooperation</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/indo-israeli-lobbies-obstruct-cultural-cooperation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, all these measures are proving fruitless due to a deliberate anti-Muslim campaign, launched by the Indo-Israeli lobbies, creating obstacles in global cultural cooperation. America and its allies continue to kill many innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Palestine through heavy aerial bombardment and ground shelling in the name of war on terror. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=5685&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UAE feels heat of sukuk slump</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/uae-feels-heat-of-sukuk-slump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions ruled that bonds don&#8217;t meet religious requirements if they haven&#8217;t transferred ownership of collateral to holders. About 85 per cent of sukuk failed this test, it said. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
This is a way of saying that those in the Middle East were being sold a bag of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=5060&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No &#8216;Islamophobia,&#8217; please</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/no-islamophobia-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“True leaders do not exploit fear or stereotypes for political gain,” Awad said in a statement Wednesday. “We hope to hear Senator McCain and Governor Palin say they will defend the civil and religious rights of all Americans, work with the American Muslim community in making our nation both free and secure and help build [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=5053&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man with 86 Wives Disappears</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/man-with-86-wives-disappears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alhaji Abuabakar Bello Massaaba]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, an assembly of people from Nupe Kingdom, incuding Islamic scholars from within and outside the state, tried  Bello for what they called anti-Muslim behaviour and bringing Islam to disrepute by marrying more than four wives, and directed that he  diviorces 82 of his wives within 48 hours. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Iran warns any attack would start &#8216;world war&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/iran-warns-any-attack-would-start-world-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;Any aggression against Iran will start a world war,&#8221; deputy chief of staff for defence publicity, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, said in a statement carried by the agency&#8230;

&#8220;The unrestrained greed of the US leadership and global Zionism&#8230; is gradually leading the world to the edge of a precipice,&#8221; Jazayeri said, citing the unrest in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=4461&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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