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	<title>PakQuest - News Aggregator &#187; Islam</title>
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		<title>Healing touch - the way war on terror should be fought!</title>
		<link>http://www.pakquest.com/2008/02/26/healing-touch-the-way-war-on-terror-should-be-fought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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There is a lot of talk going on regarding the fate of the war on terror expecially after the change of the tide in Pakistani politics. Most of these concerns are misplaced because the real partners, the legitimate ones in this war are now taking charge in Islamabad. Pakistan People&#8217;s Party the leading part in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raunchy 10th Century Islamicate Literature</title>
		<link>http://www.pakquest.com/2008/02/25/raunchy-10th-century-islamicate-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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The Adventures of Amir Hamza, literature about the Prophet&#8217;s uncle, which everyone, including Muslims, have been going ga-ga over, merely reaffirms the fact that the myopist, Islamic-history-prudes are out of touch not just with reality but their own history. At Ultrabrown there is just one raunchy passage involving Amar Ayyar, Hamza&#8217;s trickster friend. Way raunchier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Taliban leader arrested in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Islamabad, Feb.25 : A top Taliban leader Mullah Obaidullah Akhund believed to be close to Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and part of the inner core of Mullah Omar&#8217;s coterie has been arrested in Lahore where he &#8230; via Newkerala.com 
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		<title>20,000 Scholars Term Terrorism Un-Islamic</title>
		<link>http://www.pakquest.com/2008/02/25/20000-scholars-term-terrorism-un-islamic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is out of India, via Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband. Many people had linked Deobandis to the Taliban.
Original Post at 20,000 Scholars Term Terrorism Un-Islamic by Ali Eteraz

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		<title>Arab Racial Supremacism</title>
		<link>http://www.pakquest.com/2008/02/19/arab-racial-supremacism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;We must believe Arabs are the master race!&#8221; he said. The dark underbelly of modern Salafism. Check out how a major American Salafi Imam &#8212; who happens to be black &#8212; propagated some extremely disturbing racism.
When you are at Abdur Rahman&#8217;s blog, check out his five part series on the Black-American Muslims. Part 5, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani Taliban: We Won’t Interfere in Elections; We Didn’t Kidnap Pakistani Ambassador</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Maulvi Omar, the spokesperson for the Baitullah Mehsud-led Tehreek-e Taliban-e Pakistan (Taliban Movement of Pakistan) tells BBC Urdu that his organization will abide by its pre-election ceasefire commitment and would not derail the process.
He told Reuters, &#8220;Neither do we support the process of the election nor do we have any opposition to it and if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Pakistan, Islam needs democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.pakquest.com/2008/02/16/in-pakistan-islam-needs-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waleed Ziad, an economic consultant and an associate at the Truman National Security Project, in the New York Times:
While it&#8217;s good news that secular moderates are expected to dominate Pakistan&#8217;s parliamentary elections on Monday, nobody here (in Karachi) thinks the voting will spell the end of militant extremism. Democratic leaders have a poor track record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic Ruling about Valentine’s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.pakquest.com/2008/02/14/islamic-ruling-about-valentine%e2%80%99s-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I got this email, a day before Valentine&#8217;s da, from a good friend of mine who resides in Dubai. Here is the email with my response to some of the flawed reasoning&#8230;.
Firstly:
Valentine&#8217;s Day is a jaahili Roman festival, which continued to be celebrated until after the Romans became Christian. This festival became [&#8230;]
Original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide Bombing Targets Secular Pashtun Party</title>
		<link>http://www.pakquest.com/2008/02/11/suicide-bombing-targets-secular-pashtun-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A suicide bombing today targeted an Awami National Party (ANP) election rally in Charsadda, North-West Froniter Province.  The ANP is a secular, Pashtun nationalist party that has had hostile relations with the central government in Pakistan.  Today it can count the jihadis in their midst as enemies.  Some analysts have anticipated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baitullah Mehsud’s First Television Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.pakquest.com/2008/02/06/baitullah-mehsud%e2%80%99s-first-television-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Ahmad Zaidan, al-Jazeera&#8217;s Islamabad bureau chief, interviewed Baitullah Mehsud in December. The video, provided above, was aired on the station a few days ago. It&#8217;s Mehsud&#8217;s first television interview.
The leader of Tehreek-e Taliban-e Pakistan (Taliban Movement of Pakistan) speaks in Pashto (translated by AJ into Arabic) while Zaidan presents the questions in Arabic.
[Note: I am [...]]]></description>
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