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	<description>CONTEMPORARY  MUSLIM  REFLECTIONS  ON  THE  BREADTH  OF  LIFE</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>
		<dc:creator>MOZAFFAR</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>retread- The Passion of Franklin Graham and Pat Robertson</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/06/08/retread-the-passion-of-franklin-graham-and-pat-robertson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  Some readers were expressing concern about my views on Christians.  Here is a peace I posted some years back.  It still holds true, except that for some reason, I miss my friend more today than I did then.  Omer M.
I was raised among the best of Christians and among some not so great. But, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=954&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption of the Body and Brain</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/06/08/corruption-of-the-body-and-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurry to do serve God before you get hit with corruptions of the body.  These corruptions of the body and brain &#8212; disease and senility &#8212; can drastically reduce your ability to fulfill your obligations.  Take care of your health.
In our society, we have simultaneously developed an appreciation for the needs of the body&#8217;s health, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=945&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption from poverty and prosperity</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/06/01/corruption-from-poverty-and-prosperity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have this notion in our society that poor people are happier than rich people.  Some of this notion is definitely true.  Indeed, there are poor people who are content.  Indeed, there are plenty of wealthy people who do not know contentment.
But, poverty is not a cure.  Poverty has its perils just as prosperity does.
When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=943&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jews are not the enemy</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/05/25/the-jews-are-not-the-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 04:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come across this widely publicized story about this thwarted plot to destroy a few synagogues as well as a plane.  Now, without doubt, those arrested are innocent unless proven guilty.  And, if they are guilty, then they should be punished appropriately.  In the court of public opinion, however, that point is irrelevant.  The stories [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=941&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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&blog=46480&post=935&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power and Prison of Miracles, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/05/11/the-power-and-prison-of-miracles-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of the joy of religion is found in timing.  The perfect thing happens at the perfect moment, and thus, we identify that perfect event &#8212; that anomaly of chance &#8212; as the foundation of our faith. That is a problem, a very serious problem.
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		<title>The Power and Prison of Miracles</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2009/05/04/the-power-and-prison-of-miracles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of religion involves the miraculous.  In speaking of the miraculous, we speak of anomalies.  Specifically, we often speak of two anomalies.  The first is the anomaly of habit.  The second is the anomaly of chance.
That the prophet Moses -p- and his people, while escaping the clutches of the tyrannical Pharaoh,  reached the sea, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=932&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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