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		<title>One man, no vote: British Muslims&#8217; apathy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ken Livingstone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a short extract of a letter written in 2002 by Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, a response to an academic paper written by Alison Shaw titled &#8216;Why might young British Muslims support the Taliban?&#8216;. Both Shaw&#8217;s paper and Modood&#8217;s response appear in the Royal Anthropological [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1787&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I spy with my many eyes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/i-spy-with-my-many-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago Goldsmiths’ student union was visited by two officials from the British government’s Prevent Strategy. One official was from the local council; the other from a local police station. EastLondonLines reported ‘[Officials] handed over a document with advice on how to spot a potentially vulnerable student. They were told to look out for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1762&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/liverpool-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I used to write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I looked at a different part of the world and wrote 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post, however, it is Raja Farah [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1737&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mathew Street is one of many tourist attractions related to The Beatles, and the location of Europe&#039;s largest annual free music festival.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. Image by Donna Barber/geograph.org.uk/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Liverpool&#039;s Three Graces, the Royal Liver Building, Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building at Pier Head. Image by Rept0n1x/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The Albert Dock contains the UK&#039;s largest collection of Grade I listed buildings as well as being the most visited multi-use attraction outside London. Image by Green Lane/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Speke Hall Tudor manor house is one of Liverpool&#039;s oldest buildings. Image by Daviessimo/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Liverpool Cathedral. Image by Julian Nitzsche/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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		<title>Two wrongs don&#8217;t make a right: UKIP, the Tories and the future for British politics</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/two-wrongs-dont-make-a-right-ukip-the-tories-and-the-future-for-british-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane James]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally written by @HotterThanCurry with some input from me. Despite allegations of sleaze and impropriety, the Liberal Democrats won the Eastleigh by-election last month but with a reduced majority. UKIP upset the odds and came in a strong second and shifting the limelight firmly onto the awkward Conservatives who were beaten into an embarrassing third [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1714&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">One of David Cameron&#039;s many nightmares. Image by Euro Realist Newsletter/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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		<title>Madrid: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/madrid-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Madrid: Spain’s capital dates [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1685&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Palace of Communication (Palacio de Comunicaciones), commonly knows as Cibeles Palace, located on the Plaza de Cibele. Image by Kadellar/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The view from Calle de Alcalá. Left: Metropolis Building. Centre: beginning of Gran Vía. Right: St. Joseph&#039;s Church. Image by Fermín Rodríguez Fajardo/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The Las Ventas Bullring, la Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas. Image by spettacolopuro/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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		<title>Recharted Territory: Foreign Intervention in Mali</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/recharted-territory-foreign-intervention-in-mali/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mali is the latest stop on the western-led humanitarian intervention tour after notable stops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya amongst others. A liberal view will declare that democracy was exported to those countries benevolently by western states intervening, but a realist view, the view which governs the USA&#8217;s foreign policy (think &#8216;Neocons&#8217;), would suggest something [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1668&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The US Air Force uploaded this image and description on Wikimedia: A French Mirage 2000 prepares to refuel from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker over Africa on Feb. 2, 2013. Tanker crews from the 100th Air Refueling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, England, began conducting refueling missions in support of French operations in Mali from a deployed location in southwest Europe on Jan. 27./Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The US Air Force uploaded this image and description on Wikimedia: A French Mirage 2000 prepares to refuel from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker over Africa on Feb. 2, 2013. Tanker crews from the 100th Air Refueling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, England, began conducting refueling missions in support of French operations in Mali from a deployed location in southwest Europe on Jan. 27./Wikimedia.</media:title>
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		<title>UEFA rewards apartheid state with football tournament</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/uefa-rewards-apartheid-state-with-football-tournament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than twenty years after the spectre of apartheid was finally ended in South Africa, the very same system of state-sanctioned discrimination is alive and well in Israel today. The &#8216;Apartheid State&#8217; discriminates against Palestinians in every walk of life, including sport. The world of sport cannot be divorced from other aspects of life and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1654&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love is in the millionaire</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/love-is-in-the-millionaire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is THAT DAY. You know; THAT DAY. The day where you (may) spend a heap of money on your other half, or your other half-to-be, or indeed your other half-not-to-be, because spending money on her/him on THAT DAY means more than spending on her/him another day &#8211; your Dollar will go much further on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1640&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Move European Under-21 Football Championship to England from Israel</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/move-the-european-under-21-football-championship-to-england-from-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michel Platini, president of Europe’s footballing authority UEFA, recently said that “football is enormously popular everywhere, in all corners of society, which gives it not only the opportunity but also the responsibility to try and help make the world a better place.” So why, then, did Platini grant Israel the opportunity to host a gathering [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1614&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The reigning champions, Spain, at 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. Image by henrikalexandersen/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ex-footballer and now-President of UEFA Michel Platini.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The reigning champions, Spain, at 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. Image by henrikalexandersen/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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		<title>Electoral Shock: Muslims not to blame</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/electoral-shock-muslims-not-to-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent paper published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Cranfield University’s Matt Haunstrup Qvortrup investigates data on nearly 2,000 recorded domestic terrorist incidents in Western Europe. Data was taken from the authoritative RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents for the period 1985–2010 and Qvortrup highlights that, with the exception of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1598&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A famous picture. Hamid Mir interviewing Osama bin Laden for Daily Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan. Behind them on the wall is an AKS-74U carbine. Abdul Rahman bin Laden (son of Osama bin Laden) took the photo and released it to Hamid Mir.</media:title>
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		<title>The Curious Case of Terry Rooney: Listen up, Clegg</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/the-curious-case-of-terry-rooney-listen-up-clegg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking the truth should be something that is commended in this day and age because as George Orwell told us: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. So revolutionary in fact that two Liberal Democrat politicians have suffered for telling the truth. They are Jenny Tonge last year and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1565&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Clegg on the X Factor - every vote counts. Clegg Factor (Photo credit: Crowcombe Al)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Clegg on the X Factor - every vote counts. Clegg Factor (Photo credit: Crowcombe Al)</media:title>
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		<title>Dartford immortalised by local artist Rob Leach</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/dartford-immortalised-by-local-artist-rob-leach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Written at the end of 2009, published in Dartford Living in January 2010.] Local artist and illustrator Rob Leach recently completed a second exhibition of his work at Dartford Library late in 2009, featuring watercolour paintings of various buildings and streets in and around Dartford. He trained at Central Saint Martin’s College in London, part [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1530&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frankfurt: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Frankfurt: Continental Europe’s financial [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1509&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Squaire, an office building on top of the railway station at Frankfurt Airport.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Deutsche Bank Twin Towers in the financial district.</media:title>
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		<title>Euro 2012 &#8211; yours for only €295</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/euro-2012-yours-for-only-e295/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EURO 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Originally written on June 26, 2012, a day ahead of the Euro 2012 semi-finals.] Some say it’s more difficult to win than the World Cup. Some even call it a World Cup minus Brazil and Argentina. And as it reaches its final stages 12 teams have been eliminated to leave four of the biggest and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1489&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">What the teams are playing for - the Henri Delaunay Cup. Image by Piotr Drabik/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in the match against Portugal. Image by Илья Хохлов/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">What the teams are playing for - the Henri Delaunay Cup. Image by Piotr Drabik/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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		<title>150 years underground: the Tube celebrates its sesquicentenary</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/londons-sesquicentennial-underground-the-tube-celebrates-150-years-in-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Underground]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oyster card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paddington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TfL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tube]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tube map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterloo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Queen Victoria was on the throne, Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States of America and on this day 150 years ago the world&#8217;s first underground railway transit system opened to the public in London. But neither Queen Victoria nor President Lincoln ever took a ride on it. In 1863 the London Underground (55% [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1466&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Central line Tube train at Lancaster Gate station. Image by tompagenet/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Central line Tube train at Lancaster Gate station. Image by tompagenet/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Electronic ticketing for the London Underground. Image: Frank Murmann/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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		<title>Whatever rings your Nobel</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/whatever-rings-your-nobel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liu Xiaobo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norwegian Nobel Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oslo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tawakel Karman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’ll be a busy day in Oslo tomorrow – the Nobel Foundation is hosting an award ceremony to present its 2012 Peace Prize. There will also be a Peace Prize lecture followed by a very big and glamorous banquet. The dress code dictates: “gentlemen are required to wear white tie and tails, and long evening [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1436&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland presents President Barack Obama with the Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Raadhuset Main Hall at Oslo City Hall, Norway, 10 December, 2009.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Nobel Peace Prize laureate Karman during interview by Inner City Press and other across from United Nations on October 18, 2011, before UN Security Council vote on resolution &#34;based on&#34; Gulf Cooperation Council deal including immunity for Ali Saleh. Image by Matthew Russell Lee/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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		<title>Live and let Leveson</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/live-and-let-leveson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 01:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babar Ahmad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Leveson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-petition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leveson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord Justice Leveson declared that &#8220;the press needs to establish a new regulatory body, which is truly independent of industry leaders and of government and politicians. It must promote high standards of journalism and protect both the public interest and the rights of individuals.&#8221; Does that sound bonkers? It sounds reasonable, right? This is just [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1418&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">British Prime Minister David Cameron has withstood pressure demanding he implement Lord Leveson&#039;s suggestions. Image by United Kingdom Home Office/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">It was Rupert Murdoch&#039;s humblest day when he and his son James gave evidence in front of a British parliamentary committee regarding phone hacking, but it was his wife Wendi who stole the show when she defended her husband from an assault. Image by David Shankbone/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">An e-petition didn&#039;t help Babar Ahmad who ended up getting extradited to the US. Image by 4WardEver Campaign UK/Wikimedia.</media:title>
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		<title>Nantes: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/nantes-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basilica Saint-Nicholas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chateau des ducs de Bretagne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nantes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Place Graslin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Place Royale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talensac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Nantes: Located on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1400&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Between a rock and a hard place: Obama mentions the Rohingya</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-obama-mentions-the-rohingya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rohingya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[US president Barack Obama made history (again) recently by visiting Burma (Myanmar) &#8211; a first by a US president &#8211; and met both Burmese president Thein Sein and famed Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The White House described his visit to be one where he would “speak to civil society to encourage Burma&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1359&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All change at the top, no change at the bottom: China changes leaders</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/all-change-at-the-top-no-change-at-the-bottom-china-changes-its-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rebiya Kadeer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain sees parliamentary changes every four to five years, but there exists a monarch that has reigned as sovereign for over sixty years. In the USA, presidential elections take place every four years and in France it’s five. Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Sudan have seen their leaders surpass twenty years at the top whilst some African [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1341&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tunis: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/tunis-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bardo National Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carthage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Tunis: The Mediterranean city [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1362&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big shoes to fill: a new Archbishop of Canterbury</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/big-shoes-to-fill-a-new-archbishop-of-canterbury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha course]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archbishop of Canterbury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church of England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean of Liverpool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Welby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psalm 3:6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rowan Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shahbaz Bhatti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw the announcement that the Right Reverend Justin Welby will replace the Most Reverend Rowan Williams as the Archbishop of Canterbury next year. The Telegraph&#8217;s Charles Moore (who went to school and university with Welby) described Welby as “the Alpha male to save the Church of England”. Does the Church of England really [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1325&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All talk and no action? A review of the Islamophobia Awareness Month launch</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/all-talk-and-no-action-a-review-of-the-islamophobia-awareness-month-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enough Coalition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia Awareness Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim Council of Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myriam Francois-Cerrah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stop Islamophobia Week]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adding to ‘Stop Islamophobia Week’, the struggle against Islamophobia in Britain has now been bolstered with the news that ‘Islamophobia Awareness Month’ (IAM) has officially launched. A very informative evening at the London Muslim Centre in east London saw a range of speakers including heavyweights such as human rights lawyer Imran Khan, UNITE’s regional secretary [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1315&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Football relegates Islamophobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anton Ferdinand]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joleon Lescott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Footballers' Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Ferdinand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Football Club striker Jason Roberts has continued his protest against football authorities who, he claims, are not doing enough to tackle racism in the sport. In Reading’s latest match he continued to refuse to wear a Kick It Out anti-racism T-shirt, a move that started back in October, and joined by the likes of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1296&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All in the same boat: Israel, Turkey and the Mavi Marmara</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blockade of the Gaza Strip]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Israeli forces landed soldiers from three helicopters over a 15-minute period. The Israeli forces used paintballs, plastic bullets and live ammunition, fired by soldiers from the helicopter above and soldiers who had landed on the top deck. The use of live ammunition during this period resulted in fatal injuries to four passengers, and injuries to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1280&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No More Secrets: secret courts in the British judicial system</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/no-more-secrets-secret-courts-in-the-british-judicial-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Binyam Mohamed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CagePrisoners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillsborough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Macdonald QC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The UK government’s controversial plans for secret courts are already being used in the country&#8230;Since 2001, the court has heard at least 70 cases after the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act enabled the UK Home Secretary to detain, without charge or trial, foreign nationals who were suspected of terrorism-related offences&#8221; claims Press TV. The Daily [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1257&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bath: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/bath-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bath Abbey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleveland House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgian architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane Austen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Baths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Crescent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Lunn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Bath: Bath dates back [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1245&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media and War: Challenging the consensus (LONDON EVENT)</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/media-and-war-challenging-the-consensus-event/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/media-and-war-challenging-the-consensus-event/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Pilger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Oborne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seumas Milne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stop the War Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Details of an event &#8211; a one day conference on Saturday 17 November at Goldsmiths marking a book launch &#8211; for those interested in the portrayal of war and terrorism in today&#8217;s media. Media and War: challenging the consensus Day conference on media, war and terrorism to mark the publication of &#8216;Media and Terrorism: Global [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1214&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One size fits all: is Iran intent on exporting its Islamic Revolution?</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/one-size-fits-all-is-iran-intent-on-exporting-its-islamic-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/one-size-fits-all-is-iran-intent-on-exporting-its-islamic-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdulhadi Alkhawaja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khomeini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shi'ite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speakers' Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunni]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from a previous blog post where I highlighted the issue of distrust (or mistrust &#8211; which is the correct term?) between Sunni Muslims and Shi&#8217;ite Muslims, I present here an example of that distrust. Wikipedia also has an informative page on relations between the two. Back in 1998 a small 8 page, A5-sized [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1161&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More jihad against hate: Islamophobia Awareness Month</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/more-jihad-against-hate-islamophobia-awareness-month/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/more-jihad-against-hate-islamophobia-awareness-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Defence League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamaphobia Awareness Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim Council of Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stop Islamophobia Week]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the 24th of October, the Enough Coalition, ENGAGE and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) launched &#8216;Islamophobia Awareness Month&#8216;, with the inaugural &#8216;month&#8217; taking place less than two weeks later in November 2012. Traditionally, each year in October the world observes Black History Month. In the UK October also sees &#8216;Stoptober&#8216; and in November [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1169&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malmo: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/malmo-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/malmo-around-the-world-in-80-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Øresund Bridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malmo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oresund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ribersborg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turning Torso]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Malmo: Sweden’s third largest [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1144&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slapton: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/slapton-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/slapton-around-the-world-in-80-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dartmouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingsbridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherman tank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slapton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slapton Sands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Slapton (Devon): The coastal [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1125&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pas la mode: mode, filles Françaises et plus (en Français)</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/pas-la-mode-mode-filles-francaises-et-plus/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/pas-la-mode-mode-filles-francaises-et-plus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brigitte Bardot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catwalk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Translate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janine di Giovanni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[je ne sais quoi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juliette Binoche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog post is a translation of Nà la mode: Fashion, French girls and more into French using Google Translate. This is in part to allow the article to be read by French speakers but also to test Google Translate &#8211; French speakers please let me know what you think! I make no apologies for any [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1118&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Edinburgh: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/edinburgh-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beltane Fire Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh Castle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hogmanay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holyrood Palace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Edinburgh: The World Heritage [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1095&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blood on their joysticks: the UK&#8217;s involvement in drone warfare</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/blood-on-their-joysticks-the-uks-involvement-in-drone-warfare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Defence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PlayStation Mentality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Air Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unmanned aerial vehicle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly all the attention and anger (or joy, even) about the use of drones and deadly drone attacks has been directed towards the USA and specifically 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama with his infamous &#8216;kill list&#8216; (imagine Romney getting hold of that). But those who have paid attention will have noticed that the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1075&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shit&#8217;s goin&#8217; down in Walthamstown (A counter demonstration in Walthamstow)</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/shits-goin-down-in-walthamstown-a-counter-demonstration-in-walthamstow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Defence League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innocence of Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unite Against Fascism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waltham Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walthamstow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The English Defence League (EDL) are back in Walthamstow, east London. I came across the following leaflet, which reminded me of the infamous Newsweek Muslim Rage cover, in east London this afternoon: Doing some very basic research, it was the following Facebook status update by the EDL that provoked the call to protest, or a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1052&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nà la mode: Fashion, French girls and more</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/no-la-mode-fashion-the-french-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/no-la-mode-fashion-the-french-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brigitte Bardot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catwalk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janine di Giovanni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[je ne sais quoi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juliette Binoche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog post is for the girls but the guys are welcome to stay and read on. The guys may learn something (or perhaps not) but the girls will either agree or disagree with the content presented. The girls may also learn something too, or perhaps not. This blog post is in response to an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1025&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brussels: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/brussels-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atomium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brussels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruxelles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laken Castle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Brussels: Belgium’s capital started [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=1012&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More HHUGS needed, please. xx</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/more-hhugs-needed-please-xx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HHUGS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is an update, and a plea for help, to the blog post I published earlier this year highlighting the closure of a registered charity&#8217;s bank account. Helping Households Under Great Stress (HHUGS) had their bank account closed with no reason and very little warning, and my blog post highlighted a number of reasons [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=984&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terror&#8217;s double entendre</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/terrors-double-entendre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molotov cocktail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reported that “France is boosting security at Jewish religious sites after blank bullets were fired on a synagogue west of Paris, and amid renewed concerns about anti-Semitism around the country.” That’s a good thing, absolutely. In fact it’s brilliant that the French state is stepping up security at a place of worship – [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=975&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amsterdam: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/amsterdam-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Frank House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Van Gogh Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice of the North]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Amsterdam: Amsterdam began life [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=962&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walk the walk for A Future That Works</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/walk-the-walk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Future That Works]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demonstration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Union of Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trades Union Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TUC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Walking tours in London have always been popular. There&#8217;s a Jack the Ripper walking tour, a London Icons walking tour and even a Harry Potter one. But this Saturday will see another walk grab the headlines. The walk is nearly three miles in length, starts on the Embankment and takes in Big Ben and the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=945&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barcelona: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/barcelona-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catalonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gothic Quarter Barcelona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Ramblas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Park Güell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plaça de Catalunya Barcelona]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Barcelona: The Catalonian city, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=933&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The BBC&#8217;s &#8216;Tails You Win&#8217;: a preview</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/the-bbcs-tails-you-win-a-review/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/the-bbcs-tails-you-win-a-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Spiegelhalter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Rosling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“When chance seems cruel, some call it fate. And when chance is kind, we might call it luck.”, says Professor David Spiegelhalter. This opening quote is an interesting and an important one to keep in mind whilst watching ‘Tails You Win’, a new BBC Four documentary to be aired this week, carrying on the mantle [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=920&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back for more: Obama v Romney round 2</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/back-for-more-obama-v-romney-round-2/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/back-for-more-obama-v-romney-round-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential debate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh from ‘winning’ last week’s first presidential debate, Mitt Romney will look to capitalise on Barack Obama’s meek performance and strike another blow to try and aid his campaign for the White House in the second presidential debate taking place this Tuesday. But winning a battle is one thing. Winning the war is quite another. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=902&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baghdad: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/baghdad-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
		<comments>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/baghdad-around-the-world-in-80-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arabian Nights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture for All]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mehiyar Kathem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tigris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This short travel feature about Baghdad differs from the usual Around the World in 80 Words! I do. The feature was written alongside a short article for a small charity active in Baghdad called &#8216;Culture for All&#8217;. I present the article first before presenting the travel piece. Keep in mind that these were written in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=885&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murder, she didn&#8217;t wrote</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/murder-she-didnt-wrote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ehsanullah Ehsan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malala Yousafzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yusufzai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte once said &#8220;Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.&#8221; The Taleban took Napoleon’s saying to another level: “One popular female-authored blog is more to be feared than a thousand NATO troops, dozens of fighter jets and several killer drones.” The blog was authored by Malala [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=869&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hamburg: Around the World in 80 Words!</title>
		<link>http://abdelxyz.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/hamburg-around-the-world-in-80-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abdel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jungfernstieg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mönckebergstrasse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rathaus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel title Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Hamburg: Germany’s second [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=859&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s so not gay: casual homophobia in the Twittersphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago the trailer of the film The Dilemma caused controversy after lead actor Vince Vaughn was heard saying “Electric cars are gay. Not homosexual gay, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay”. The trailer was pulled after CNN newsman Anderson Cooper raised the issue on a popular show with Ellen DeGeneres. In another scene from the popular [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=839&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Mercy: a matter of life and death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Violence and vandalism, no matter how angry you are, is not right in any religion. By killing an innocent man, this mob did more to offend the Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s legacy than this film could have ever done.&#8221; said Tarek El-Messidi, founder of CelebrateMercy. John Christopher Stevens had only been serving as US Ambassador to Libya [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abdelxyz.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37698574&#038;post=832&#038;subd=abdelxyz&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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