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		<title>Muslim Denomination Map</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/09/08/muslim-denomination-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>One woman&#8217;s experiment: taking off the hijab</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/05/31/one-womans-experiment-taking-off-the-hijab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 18:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[covering hair in Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ever informative @blakehounshell pointed me (and all other Twitter followers) to an article written by a Muslim lady who decided as an experiment to take off her hijab to see how it feels. Here is the link to the fascinating and superbly written article. It&#8217;s well worth a read. Some of the best bits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5443&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ramadan&#8217;s excesses</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/09/06/ramadans-excesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After living in Kuwait I confess that I was left with a slightly sour taste during Ramadan. As far as I understand things &#8211; please correct me if I am incorrect &#8211; Ramadan is a time of reflection and a time to think of those who are less fortunate that yourself. This is primarily why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3967&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fatwas to be vetted by Ministry</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/08/03/fatwas-to-vetted-by-ministry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a potentially devastating blow to bloggers looking for an easy laugh and post at the expense of absurd Saudi muftis, it appears that Saudi is establishing a kind of fatwa quality control system. The Ministry of Islamic Affairs has decreed that they will now have to sift through proposed fatwas by Islamic scholars before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3708&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manchester United: &#8216;evil&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/08/02/manchester-united-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, after many years of insistence, I have clerical proof when I say that Manchester Unites are evil. Muslim scholars in Malaysia, in a superb effort to distance themselves from the tens of millions of football-loving youngsters across Asia, have announced that the devil on United shirts is &#8220;very dangerous&#8221;. Devils are our enemies. Why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3694&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muslims: &#8216;need to move beyond Medieval laws&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/07/10/muslims-need-to-move-beyond-medieval-laws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an excellent op-ed in the Times of London regarding the recent saga around the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. She was accused of adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death. On appeal and amid international uproar at this barbaric medieval absurdity the sentence was commuted and is under review. Ed Hussain of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3585&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi male breastfeeding saga continues</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/06/14/saudi-male-breastfeeding-saga-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, the title is not one long typo. It is instead an end product of institutionalized literalism at the expense of analysis, reason and education that one finds in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Several months ago, a Saudi cleric, Sheikh Al Obeikan, was discussing a fatwa from an Egyptian &#8216;scholar&#8217; studying at the Arab [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3419&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Islam needs a reformation&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/05/22/islam-needs-a-reformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 15:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You must read this article in the LA Times. It is written by a Saudi former jihadi and is unusually good. Sultan Al Qasseimi, one of the Emirate&#8217;s best known public intellectuals (to whom I own a hat tip for this nukta), describes it as &#8216;the most important contemporary article written by a Muslim&#8217;. Islam [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3071&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Park &amp; the Mohammed cartoon</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/04/25/south-park-the-mohammed-cartoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The creators of South Park the highly irreverent US cartoon have been forced to censor a cartoon from depicting the Prophet Mohammed. They did this after receiving threats to their lives and in the wake of the attacks on the Danish cartoonist who penned the now infamous Danish Mohammed cartoons. This whole issue is fraught [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=2792&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all sorted now: Saudi denounces all terrorism</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/04/14/its-all-sorted-now-saudi-denounces-all-terrorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Council of Supreme Scholars, the highest religious body in Saudi Arabia, has issued a fatwa denouncing any and all acts of terrorism including its financing. Those giving money towards such causes will now be considered to be &#8220;partners&#8221; in the crime. Whilst this decree is a positive step in the right direction, there are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=2660&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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