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	<title>Distance and Religous "Others"</title>
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		<title>Distance and Religous "Others"</title>
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		<title>Congregating to Talk of Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scribe G</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maeve Haldane &#124; Religious studies professor Norman Cornett has done what none of the leaders involved in the Iraq war had been able to accomplish. He invited seven religious clerics and scholars of different faiths to talk in an open dialogue for his April 10 seminar class on Religion and War.
The participants were Thupten Jinpa, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=21&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christian/Moslem Debate Of The 12th Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scribe G</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[12th Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I. Debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dialogue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. With the help of God, we begin writing a debate that happened between the monk Georgi and three Moslem theologians, in the presence of the prince Al-Khana, Al-Mushar Abul-Mulk, Gazi Al-Zaher Usef Ibn Ayub Al-Salah, the Moslem King of Aleppo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=18&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins Interview With Yusuf Al Khattab</title>
		<link>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/2006/01/09/richard-dawkins-interview-with-yusuf-al-khattab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scribe B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I. Debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[II. Pushing Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yousef Khattab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yusuf Al Khattab]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from the television documentary, The Root of All Evil?, where evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins presents religion as a detriment to society and the world as a whole.

The transcript of the interview is below:
Dawkins: What I noticed coming to this center of world religions, what a lot of hatred religion fosters, I mean I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=26&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speech by Urban II at Council of Clermont, 1095</title>
		<link>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/2004/04/05/speech-by-urban-ii-at-council-of-clermont-1095/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scribe B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[11th Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[II. Pushing Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Urban II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After these and various other matters had been attended to, all who were present, clergy and people, gave thanks to God and agreed to the pope&#8217;s proposition. They all faithfully promised to keep the decrees. Then the pope said that in another part of the world Christianity was suffering from a state of affairs that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=10&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hernan Cortés: from Second Letter to Charles V</title>
		<link>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/2003/05/11/hernan-cortes-from-second-letter-to-charles-v/</link>
		<comments>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/2003/05/11/hernan-cortes-from-second-letter-to-charles-v/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2003 01:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[16th Century]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aztec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles V]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cortez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[description]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idolatry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montezuma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IN ORDER, most potent Sire, to convey to your Majesty a just conception of the great extent of this noble city of Temixtitlan, and of the many rare and wonderful objects it contains; of the government and dominions of Moctezuma, the sovereign: of the religious rights and customs that prevail, and the order that exists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=17&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours: Three Accounts, 732</title>
		<link>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/2003/01/30/arabs-franks-and-the-battle-of-tours-three-accounts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 01:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[III. The Flip-Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[battle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expansion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abderrahman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Denis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an Arabian Chronicler 
Musa being returned to Damascus, the Caliph Abd-el Melek asked of him about  his conquests, saying &#8220;Now tell me about these Franks&#8212;what is their nature?&#8221;
&#8220;They,&#8221; replied Musa, &#8220;are a folk right numerous, and full of might: brave  and impetuous in the attack, but cowardly and craven in event of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=14&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yusuf Al Khattab&#8217;s Response to Richard Dawkins</title>
		<link>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/2002/12/10/joseph-cohen-aka-yousef-khattab/</link>
		<comments>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/2002/12/10/joseph-cohen-aka-yousef-khattab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 03:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scribe B</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[III. The Flip-Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yousef Khattab]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This video is in response to Richard Dawkins&#8217; television documentary, The Root of All Evil?, which aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 2006.
The caption to the video reads:
A jew called Joseph Cohen, was living in USA then moved to Gaza in Palestine as a jew settler in the year 1998.. He met [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=25&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico</title>
		<link>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/2001/09/04/an-aztec-account-of-the-conquest-of-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2001 01:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[III. The Flip-Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aztec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conquest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cortez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expansion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montezuma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speeches of Motecuhzoma and Cortés

When Motecuhzoma [Montezuma] had given necklaces to each one, Cortés asked  him: &#8220;Are you Motecuhzoma? Are you the king? Is it true that you are the king  Motecuhzoma?&#8221;
And the king said: &#8220;Yes, I am Motecuhzoma.&#8221; Then he stood up to welcome  Cortés; he came forward, bowed his head [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=16&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cremation of Strasbourg Jewry St. Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/2000/02/14/the-cremation-of-strasbourg-jewry-st-valentines-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2000 01:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[III. The Flip-Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strasbourg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About The Great Plague And The Burning Of The  Jews
In the year 1349 there occurred the greatest epidemic that ever happened.  Death went from one end of the earth to the other, on that side and this side of  the sea, and it was greater among the Saracens than among the Christians. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=13&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan and Globalization</title>
		<link>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/1999/06/15/pakistan-and-globalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 1999 02:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scribe G</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[III. The Flip-Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mukhrara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shazia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tribal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the standpoint of Pakistan, the verdict on globalization is decidedly mixed. As Akbar Ahmed explains in &#8220;Journey into Islam,&#8221; tribes and urban populations in the country are close in distance, but they are worlds apart in custom, culture and tradition — and in their perceptions of globalization.
Musharraf and almost all of the army’s generals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=24&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Blockade of Tariq Ramadan</title>
		<link>http://modernmiscellany.wordpress.com/1998/09/26/the-blockade-of-tariq-ramadan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 1998 02:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[III. The Flip-Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IV. Resolution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exclusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramadan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[visa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The case of Professor Tariq Ramadan strains the mind to the point of incredulity. What point is the U.S. trying to make in denying a visa, yet again, to one of Europe&#8217;s deepest and most articulate
Muslim thinkers? In 2004, when Ramadan, a Swiss citizen, was offered a professorship in Peace Studies at the University of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=22&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Ibn Daud: On Samuel Ha-Nagid, Vizier of Granada</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most famous of the Jewish notables of Moslem Spain was Samuel Ha­Levi, who is also known as Samuel Ha­Nagid. Beginning life as a shopkeeper, Samuel Ha­Levi ultimately became the chief minister at the court of Granada. By virtue of this office he became the political head of the Jews in Granada and probably thus received the title Nagid ("Prince"), his name becoming Samuel Ha­Nagid. He served his community as rabbi and did a great deal to further Jewish learning throughout the world. 

Samuel was a fine linguist, a scholar, a diplomat, and a distinguished soldier. His reputation in the Middle Ages was based mainly on his excellent poetry, some of which was written even on the battlefield. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=1&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awakening the World by Religious Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 1995 02:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning. I am delighted to have this opportunity to join with all of you here in this meaningful conference.
Globalization brings us the beauty of dialogue and interactions between various religions and cultures, but because of misunderstanding and misinterpretation, globalization will also become the source of conflicts, tensions, struggles and polarization. The polarization of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmiscellany.wordpress.com&blog=3362398&post=20&subd=modernmiscellany&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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