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		<title>Review of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies, by Nader Hashemi, Oxford Univ. Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Faisal Kutty
Nineteenth-century French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that the relationship between religion and democracy in the West was the “great problem of our time.” While arguably it may be less significant in ...]]></description>
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		<title>OTTAWA CITIZEN EDITORIAL: The U.S. can do better</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ottawa Citizen
Americans viewed the attack of 9/11 as an act of war, and no fair-minded person should blame them for doing so. And because there has never been a war in which even the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Spying on us doesn&#8217;t protect democracy. It undermines it &#8211; By branding protesters and mainstream Muslim activists as extremists, the police are effectively criminalising dissent</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/spying-on-us-doesnt-protect-democracy-it-undermines-it-by-branding-protesters-and-mainstream-muslim-activists-as-extremists-the-police-are-effectively-criminalising-dissent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Seumas Milne
There&#8217;s nothing new about British governments spying on their own citizens. From the time of Elizabeth I&#8217;s spy chief Francis Walsingham to the legendary agent provocateurs of the years after Waterloo to the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Fisk’s World: Everyone seems to be agreeing with Bin Laden these days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only Obama, it seems, fails to get the message that we’re losing Afghanistan
By Robert Fisk
Obama and Osama are at last participating in the same narrative. For the US    president&#8217;s critics – indeed, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Islam and democracy: They can work together &#8211; Canadian political scientist Nader Hashemi travels through history to make his points about the Islam of today</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed By FAISAL KUTTY
Published in The Globe And Mail
Nineteenth-century French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that the relationship between religion and democracy in the West was the “great problem of our time.” While arguably it ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is the West Thwarting Arab Plans for Reform? &#8211; By David Gardner, Financial Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 19:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Gardner
Publisher: Financial Times
The author discusses the reign      of King Hussein of Jordan, believing that the rule of the “West’s favourite      benign Arab despot” ...]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL from The Globe and Mail: Cause for all Canadian citizens to worry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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From Wednesday&#8217;s Globe and Mail
April 29, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT
His name is Abousfian Abdelrazik, but it could as easily be Joseph Smith, a Canadian Everyman. He is a citizen denied the right to return ...]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic Peacemaking Since 9/11 &#8211; By David Smock and Qamar-ul Huda</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/islamic-peacemaking-since-911-by-david-smock-and-qamar-ul-huda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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David Smock and Qamar-ul Huda
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Muslims in general and Muslim leaders particularly have often been severely criticized for not more energetically condemning the violent acts of Muslim extremists.
Violent extremists are on one ...]]></description>
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		<title>DIALOGUES ON DEFINING ISLAM: Islam, Democracy and Self-Determination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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DIALOGUES ON DEFINING ISLAM
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, New York
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2009
Location: West Wing Classroom, 5pm
Welcome, President &#38; Dean of Albany Law School, Thomas Guernsey
“History and Development of Islamic Legal Thought”, Speaker: ...]]></description>
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		<title>America and the Rule of Law in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saeed Malik, a US citizen who is the younger brother of former Pakistan Supreme Bar Association president and lawyers&#8217; movement leader Muneer Malik, says that the Obama Administration should support Pakistan&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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