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	<description>Faraz Rabbani's Digest on Islam, Society, Culture, Knowledge, and Others Matters of Interest</description>
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		<title>The Reality of Istikhara - SeekersGuidance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SeekersGuidance - The Reality of Istikhara - Blog: &#8220;In this lecture, Shaykh Faraz discusses istikhara (the prayer of guidance) by defining it, debunking misconceptions regarding it, the best way to perform it, and easy ways to integrate it into our lives in a meaningful manner. &#8220;

﻿In this lecture, Shaykh Faraz discusses istikhara (the prayer of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Different Is Obama from Bush on Terrorism? - By Noah Feldman &#124; Foreign Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How Different Is Obama from Bush on Terrorism? - By Noah Feldman &#124; Foreign Policy: &#8220;The U.S. president has found himself caught in some old legal traps &#8212; while creating new ones of his own.&#8221;﻿


﻿After five years of waiting, Omar Khadr was finally slated to go on trial in Guantánamo Bay this summer &#8212; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help OffroadPakistan’s Flood Relief - Blog - 4&#215;4 Offroaders Club Karachi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Help OffroadPakistan’s Flood Relief - Blog - 4&#215;4 Offroaders Club Karachi
OffroadPakistan and friends have put together an effort to help people effected by the floods in Pakistan. We are providing relief ourselves (delivery and distribution) in Sindh area. Right now it&#8217;s food and essentials and temporary shelter. Next we would support run a refugee camp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing the perfect watermelon - The New York Times</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=872</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Video Library Home Page - The New York Times: &#8220;Watermelon can be one of the most disappointing fruits of summer because finding
the perfect one is so difficult. Kim Severson seeks the elusive perfection of the juicy gourd. &#8220;
 
 
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		<title>Garner&#8217;s Usage Tip of the Day: plenitude (not plentitude) - Oh!

Garner&#8217;s Usage Tip of the Day: plenitude.

Garner&#8217;s Usage Tip of the Day: plenitude.</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=869</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Garner&#8217;s Usage Tip of the Day: plenitude.
So spelled. The word is derived from the Latin &#8220;plenus&#8221; (&#8221;full&#8221;) &#8212; the etymon also for &#8220;plenary.&#8221; Unfortunately, through confusion with the word &#8220;plenty,&#8221; the misspelling *&#8221;plentitude&#8221; has become common &#8212; e.g.:

o &#8220;Poulet de Bresse . . . is considered to be the world&#8217;s best chicken, a breast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube - Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No &#8216;Ground Zero Mosque&#8217; - 08/16/10</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=866</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[YouTube - Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No &#8216;Ground Zero Mosque&#8217; - 08/16/10: &#8220;Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No &#8216;Ground Zero Mosque&#8217; - 08/16/10&#8243;
 

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		<title>CNN: Understanding Islam, Ramadan, extremism, communication, and the West - Shaykh Jihad Brown &#038; Tayyibah Taylor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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Shaykh Jihad Brown of Tabah Foundation and Tayyibah Taylor, editor of Azizah Magazine, talk about the role of Islam, Ramadan, communication, and the West.
Part One:

Part Two:

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		<title>Why is the world unmoved by the plight of Pakistan? - Asia, World - The Independent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is the world unmoved by the plight of Pakistan? - Asia, World - The Independent

﻿Surrounded by brown, fast-shifting water on all sides, the 40 or so families in the village-turned-island had received no food, no medicine and no news as to when they might be rescued.
 
&#8220;We&#8217;re dying of hunger,&#8221; shrieked the woman, Sughra Bibi, as volunteers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Has Islam Become So Controversial in America? &#124; The Atlantic Wire</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=859</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Has Islam Become So Controversial in America? &#124; The Atlantic Wire
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What began with the right-wing political campaign against the &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque,&#8221; an Islamic community center that is neither a mosque nor located at ground zero, has now become a national  phenomenon. Crowds of protesters, sometimes aligned with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help our brethren in distress: Pakistan floods: &#8216;We are now in God&#8217;s hands&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=857</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan floods: &#8216;We are now in God&#8217;s hands&#8217; &#124; World news &#124; The GuardianHabiba arrived in Sukkur in the early hours of the morning, after travelling nonstop for three days to find somewhere that had not been washed away by the floods. She left her village, Marakh Bijarani 40 miles away in Kashmore district, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Webinar with Shaykh Hamza, Shaykh Abdal Hakim, and others in aid of the Cambridge New Mosque Project - Sat, August 7&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=855</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mishkat Media &#38; SeekersGuidance :: Webinar in Aid of Cambridge New Mosque Project
SeekersGuidance &#38; Mishkat Media present
&#8216;Healthy Hearts, Healthy Communities&#8217;The life and teachings of Imam al-Ghazali in the modern worldA webinar in aid of the Cambridge New Mosque ProjectSaturday August 7th 2pm EST / 7pm BST (6pm UTC/GMT)
REGISTER HERE!Featuring exclusive contributions from our respected and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subscribe to the SeekersGuidance Islamcasts for free at iTunes</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=853</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SeekersGuidance IslamCast - iTunes

SeekersGuidance Islamcasts provide practical guidance on living the deen of Islam in your daily life. Sound scholarship and accessible teachers will help you apply the guidance of the Qur&#8217;an and Prophetic teachings (sunna) to living as a Muslim in the 21st Century.
You can subscribe to the SeekersGuidance Islamcasts for free at iTunes.
Also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended: Ethica Institute’s Live Webinar: Career Options in Islamic Finance - Your Questions, Our Answers</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=851</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Live Webinar: Career Options in Islamic Finance - Your Questions, Our Answers
Your Questions, Our Answers. Free Live Webinar on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 5:00pm (Dubai time. Check your local time for this webinar)
Register Now! (Limited Seats)
Learn how you can join the fastest growing sector in banking today!  At a time when the financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fahad Faruqui: Sufi Islam: Reclaiming Muslim Spirituality - Huffington Post</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=849</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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Fahad Faruqui: Sufi Islam: Reclaiming Muslim Spirituality

﻿After two bombs recently claimed dozens of innocent lives at the shrine of esteemed Sufi Ali Hajviri,  fingers were pointed at the al-Qaeda-linked militants who see Sufism as  the work of heretics. The New York Sufi Music Festival was brought to  U.S. to showcase the spiritual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Videos from Islamic Finance Conference - Shaykh Nizam Yaquby, Sh. Taha Abdul-Basser, and others</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=846</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Straightway Ethical Advisory Blog &#124; UFANA Islamic Finance Conference on March 30-31, 2010 (VIDEO): &#8220;Below is part 1-4 of the Sharia`ah Scholars Roundtable discussion on the AAOIFI standards and other topics of note. Sh Taha Abdul-Basser introduces the panel, which was held at the UFANA Islamic Finance Conference on March 30-31, 2010. Speakers in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans flock to Toronto to buy coveted Pakistani mango - thestar.com</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=844</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans flock to Toronto to buy coveted Pakistani mango - thestar.com


 


﻿It was an impulsive act of love, almost bordering on obsession,  which led Waseem Haider to do the unthinkable: smuggle a harmless, yet  forbidden, substance across the U.S.-Canada border.
The goods – two cases of sweet and juicy Pakistani mangoes of the chaunsa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening to Quran Online Is Easier than Ever! « Creative Muslims</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=842</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to Quran Online Is Easier than Ever! « Creative Muslims

﻿At work? Are you ready to pop in your iPod headphones well before you think about checking your music out, you might want to pay attention to something much more important – the Quran. Ramadan is not far , check out the following three sites where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Faith Panelists Blog: No religious basis for 9/11 - Hadia Mubarak</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=840</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Faith Panelists Blog: No religious basis for 9/11 - Hadia Mubarak
While opposition to the opening of an Islamic center at Ground Zero is certainly not surprising, it reflects a dismal level of intolerance, bigotry and ignorance that continues to plague our country. To characterize the existence of a place of worship for God-loving, law-abiding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prince of Brotherhood - Amir Abd el-Kader</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=838</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Saudi Aramco World : Prince of Brotherhood


During his lifetime, Abd  el-Kader, tribal leader and scholar of the Qur’an, became world-famous  as both a freedom-fighter and an advocate for religious tolerance and  cultural openness. President Abraham Lincoln thanked him for saving  lives. French priests praised him from their pulpits. British readers  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Liberalism – John Gray - Allahcentric</title>
		<link>http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=836</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faraz Rabbani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The End of Liberalism – John Gray « Allahcentric
“As the political theory of modernity, liberalism is ill-equipped to address the dilemmas of the postmodern period. Liberalism was the political theory of the modern age, partly because it was a response to circumstances of diversity in world-views that arose in the early modern period with the [...]]]></description>
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