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		<title>Maybe this is a war on Islam?</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/05/18/maybe-this-is-a-war-on-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been preaching for most of the past decade that this war has not been&#8212;by intention&#8212;a war on Islam.  And, in speaking of a &#8220;war on Islam,&#8221; I would be speaking of a war launched against Muslims and Muslim artifacts because they are Muslims or Islamic.  Rather, it is a campaign to gain control [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=935&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conquering by Embracing</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/10/20/conquering-by-embracing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you go in and conquer a people, your rule will be shortlived. You will be regarded from start to finish as an outsider occupying and imposing the brutal ways of an outsider. If you seek legacy, meaning, if you seek to last in that land, you have a few choices. 1- Thorough extermination of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=712&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exhaling against the Wall of Light</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/04/exhaling-against-the-wall-of-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MOZAFFAR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The design of this world is struggle. That is the nature of this world. The nature of this life is a nature of loss. Relief from that struggle is found in the Divine. Prevention of loss is found in certain actions. But, the nature of this world and life is struggle and loss. We find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=658&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running from the Self is Running from God</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/07/21/running-from-the-self-is-running-from-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MOZAFFAR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know the popular line stating that if you know yourself, then you can know God. Meaning, if you do not know yourself, there is no way you can know God. Such is the plight of so many people today. Long before they run from God, they run from their own selves. Thus, I wonders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=627&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Math</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/07/14/math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three types of people in the world. 1- Those who know math. 2- The other guy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=599&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two pillars of socio-spiritual chaos, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/16/two-pillars-of-socio-spiritual-chaos-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second pillar of spiritual chaos is the erasure of accountability. If you guarantee a person salvation either by eliminating any thought of accountability or by guaranteeing salvation, then you have erased the system of accountability. The accountant then of such a person will again become his/her nafs al-amāra. What reason is there to conform [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=532&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opium for the Masses Again</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/02/opium-for-the-masses-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MOZAFFAR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In generations past, the immediate signal of exploitation was an inequality of the distribution of resources. That inequality was then the fuel for revolution. That inequality today is so great, yet where is the revolution? Even the protests marches of today are largely symbolic impotent exercises. The power brokers&#8212;in “feeding” our appetites&#8212;have already wiped out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=525&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power and Oppression in Today&#8217;s Mirror</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/05/26/power-and-oppression-in-todays-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MOZAFFAR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In every generation are people sensitive to abuses of power. In this generation, however, we are taught to be extra-sensitive about the nature and consequences of power. We are taught that &#8220;power&#8221; is to be possessed equally by all. Such is the ethos of democracy, in that no authoritarian structure has the authority to compel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=521&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Malcolm X</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/05/19/happy-birthday-malcolm-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MOZAFFAR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To express my appreciation to the Creator for bringing you into my life, I quote the following story from Gulistan. [Trans. Omar Ali-Shah, p. 65] They saw Abdul Qadir Gilani, God&#8217;s blessing on him, in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca weeping, his face in the sand, and saying, &#8220;Lord forgive me! If Thou deem me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=516&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yesterday&#8217;s gods are today&#8217;s tokens</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/05/05/yesterdays-gods-are-todays-tokens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To oppress a population, you must take away their power. You must disempower them. Now, to disempower them, you have to replace their real material power, with impotent mythic power. In the past, the easiest way to exploit and oppress someone was to convince the oppressed (and sometimes convince the oppressor, yourself) that the oppressed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=501&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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