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		<title>Muslim Inverse Tribalism</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/11/16/muslim-inverse-tribalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a way, this post is a sequel to the post Reactive Nation. The concern is yet again relevant in light of recent events.

It began long before 9/11, perhaps after the first WTC bombing in 1993.   Perhaps it began with the Salman Rushdie affair at the end of the 1980s.  Perhaps it began earlier.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=975&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short Open Letter to Anwar al-Awlaki</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to his blog posting &#8220;Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing.&#8221;  I would post this letter as a &#8220;comment&#8221; on that blog entry, but I do not trust that that blog is legitimately his.  Some of the blog postings are so shortsighted and simplistic that I do not expect that they are from Anwar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=970&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liberate yourself from canonical form, with canonical form</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/08/31/liberate-yourself-from-canonical-form-with-canonical-form/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, as we work through our daily canonical prayers, we might be relaxed through our standing and sitting, yet hurried through our prostrations.  
Often, our bows and prostrations are lengthened only by x number of repetitions of particular praises of God.  Why?  Try making the length of your bow and prostration based on something different.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=965&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Perseverance of Powerlessness</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/08/24/the-perseverance-of-powerlessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the struggles of life are those that demand that we persevere through them because we know that they are temporary.  You are hit with a temporary sickness, and you know that in all likelihood it is temporary; thus, we need only persevere through it.  
Some of the struggles of life are those that do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=963&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jihad of the Parents</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/08/17/the-jihad-of-the-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest struggles of the young Muslim American is the struggle to be good to his/her parents.  It is such a challenge that perhaps everything else, everything else, is easier. 
The challenge has multiple sources.  Consider American culture.  It is a natural part of the personality of democracy, that we become innately resistant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=958&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian Taliban and the Real Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, some new news story is racing through the electronic gossip vines and that news is being spun to further denigrate Islam and Muslims.  Naturally, the self-appointed Terrorism Experts (who are nothing more than charlatans dressed in the garment of upright citizenry), and all those racist bigots claiming to be patriots, will jump on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=959&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growth through education</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/08/03/growth-through-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be of the opinion that a liberal education was the key to growth and self-awareness.  But I have not only gone through a full liberal education, I have also taught liberal education.  And, I was wrong.  I have noticed that there are many people whose horizons expand greatly because of the experience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=956&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selective Honoring</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/06/29/selective-honoring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not quite understand the way we have been honoring our history.  We are so quick to honor the greatnesses of the Ottomans, the greatnesses of Andalusia, the greatnesses of the Mughals, the greatnesses even of the Seljuks and Mamluks.  But, when Muslims today speak of an Islamic politics or a political Islam, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=951&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Three Corruptions</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/06/22/the-three-corruptions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hurry in doing good before we might get hit with the three corruptions.  These three corruptions &#8212; wealth, body, and time &#8212; are not intrinsically evil.  They are not even intrinsically defeating.  But, they are intrinsically challenging because we might define our selves according to them, in response to them, or despite them.  We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=949&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption in Time</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/06/15/corruption-in-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know that the clock is ticking.  We know that whether we sit or act, whether we do nothing or do something, the clock is ticking.  We know that as time races forward, seemingly faster and faster, we are losing out, unless we make the best usage of our time.  And we know that that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=947&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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