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		<title>The Woes of Social Networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last two weeks of my life have been filled with an extremely exhausting influx of human interaction – a process that has led me to realise the degree of reliance I have upon my PC to keep me connected to what I see as the ‘real world’ and how utterly incapable I have become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=73&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muslims Celebrating the Achievements of Muslims</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was invited to attend two Awards ceremonies that brought together talented British personalities (Muslim and non-Muslim alike) to celebrate the work of those who, through the written word, or creative industries had contributed to British society. The events were a hub for young Muslims to mingle, exchange experiences, and most of all, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=72&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Enlightenment: Theories in Islamic Reformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had the pleasure of meeting Madhavi Sunder at the London School of Economics. An expert on women&#8217;s human rights in Muslim communities with a formal background in law, Sunder had been invited to speak about &#8220;The New Enlightenment: how Muslim women are bringing religion out of the dark ages&#8220;. Her views about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=71&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the name of honour, marriage &#8230;and force</title>
		<link>http://freewriters.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/in-the-name-of-honour-marriage-and-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the BBC broke a story about thirty three girls who have apparently disappeared from schools in Bradford &#8211; authorities suspect that the girls have been taken abroad to be forcefully married. The story is not new to the Asian community, particularly to those living in the North of England, but it is one that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=70&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scaremongering about Shariah Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has happened again &#8211; someone says something about Islam, Muslims, law, Shariah, UK, etc, etc, etc, the media starts it&#8217;s god-forsaken scaremongering, the ignorant public jump to their own ill-informed conclusions and go into a frenzied panic. Actually, Muslims should have been anticipating this for a while now, the media did seem a little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=69&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musharraf&#8217;s dictatorship spreads to the UK</title>
		<link>http://freewriters.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/musharrafs-dictatorship-spreads-to-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf was asked to give a lecture at London&#8217;s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) about Pakistan&#8217;s domestic and regional challenges. The lecture was described as an &#8220;embarrassment&#8221; by a number of notable British Pakistanis. I was unaware of the extent to which Musharraf had gone to limit the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=68&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And so the nation weeps at the fading hope of a new future</title>
		<link>http://freewriters.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/and-so-the-nation-weeps-at-the-fading-hope-of-a-new-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought long and hard about whether or not I should write a blog in tribute to Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (former Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic Pakistan), but in the end I decided that if I truly believe in democracy, freedom of speech, and equality &#8211; then I have no choice but to write a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=67&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Allah Made Me Funny</title>
		<link>http://freewriters.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/allah-made-me-funny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago on a Wednesday evening my wife and I made our way through Fulham’s backstreets to the small but packed Riverside Studios. Aside from being predominantly Asian, the gathering was eclectic; with hijabis* conversing easily with ladies in less traditional garb (one guy even wore a turban.) We all came with a common [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=66&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Teddy Bear is called Muhammed</title>
		<link>http://freewriters.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/my-teddy-bear-is-called-muhammed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, the story of Gillian Gibbons was sprawled all over the front pages of every newspaper I could lay my hands on. Gibbons, a 54-year old Liverpudlian teacher in Sudan has been jailed for allowing one of her seven-year old pupils to name their teddy bear &#8220;Muhammed&#8221;. Declaring this as blasphemy, the Sudanese authorities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=65&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Islam good for London: A Perspective</title>
		<link>http://freewriters.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/is-islam-good-for-london-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Islam Good for London? 
Having attended, what was purported to be, a debate about Islam in London, I must admit I feel sorry for Londoners. For two reasons:
- it appears that way too many people intensely dislike Muslims.
- Muslims are most likely partly to blame. 
I am happy to be a South African Muslim for two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freewriters.wordpress.com&blog=1885334&post=64&subd=freewriters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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