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		<title>Blasphemy law becomes contentious issue in Pak now Pope on target</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2011/01/24/blasphemy-law-becomes-contentious-issue-in-pak-now-pope-on-target/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blasphemy law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE – World Pasban Khatam-e-Nabuwwat on Sunday staged a demonstration outside Lahore Press Club to condemn and protest against Pope Benedict’s appeal and European Parliament resolution for amendments in blasphemy law, deteriorating law and order situation and price hike.
The participants were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the US intervention in the country, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What will be the message of general elections?</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/04/08/what-will-be-the-message-of-general-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amitabh Tripathi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[General elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[India has been gripped under fever of general elections as after one week first phase of voting in few constituencies will take place. Being the largest democracy of the world general elections in India always has some curiosity across the world. For last six decades India has proved credibility of its democratic institutions as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The UNâ€™s Jihad Against Free Speech</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/04/04/the-un%e2%80%99s-jihad-against-free-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/04/04/the-un%e2%80%99s-jihad-against-free-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News at a glance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of expression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert spencer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Spencer
In a crushing blow to the freedom of speech worldwide, the United Nations Human Rights Council last Thursday approved a resolution calling upon member states to provide legal â€œprotection against acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and coercion resulting from defamation of religions and incitement to religious hatred in general.â€
While the resolution speaks of religion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>â€œThe fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the stars but in ourselves.â€</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/16/%e2%80%9cthe-fault-dear-brutus-lies-not-in-the-stars-but-in-ourselves%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/16/%e2%80%9cthe-fault-dear-brutus-lies-not-in-the-stars-but-in-ourselves%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guest column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr Richard Benkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When historians look back on our era and wonder how a relatively small group of Islamist radicals controlled the international agenda for great countries across the globe, they will ask why we failed to heed those words that William Shakespeare wrote four centuries earlier. Last week in Kolkata, India, police arrested the editor and publisher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, the Middle East and Islam &#8211; An Initial Assessment</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/obama-the-middle-east-and-islam-an-initial-assessment/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/obama-the-middle-east-and-islam-an-initial-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Pipes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why, just two weeks into a 209-week term, assess a new American president&#8217;s record on so esoteric a subject as the Middle East and Islam? In Barack Obama&#8217;s case, because of:
(1) A contradictory record: His background brims over with wild-eyed anti-Zionist radicals such as Ali Abunimah, Rashid Khalidi, and Edward Said, with Islamists, the Nation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we living in the era of Islamic censorship?</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/are-we-living-in-the-era-of-islamic-censorship/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/are-we-living-in-the-era-of-islamic-censorship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amitabh Tripathi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SAF blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geert Wilders]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In last few months three important developments took place which were although directly not related with each other but they have some connection between them. First, just before Indian economic capital Mumbai was attacked by Islamic terroists on 26 November last year the largest Islamic body OIC approached the supreme law making body of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranâ€™s Women Fight for Rights</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/iran%e2%80%99s-women-fight-for-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/iran%e2%80%99s-women-fight-for-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News at a glance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By NAZILA FATHI
Womenâ€™s rights advocates say Iranian women are displaying a growing determination to achieve equal status in this conservative Muslim theocracy, where male supremacy is still enscribed in the legal code. One in five marriages now end in divorce, according to government data, a fourfold increase in the past 15 years.
And it is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media bias, spread of religious hatred and fanatic approach</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/media-bias-spread-of-religious-hatred-and-fanatic-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/media-bias-spread-of-religious-hatred-and-fanatic-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wahabism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zakir Naik]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To a large section of the television viewers in Asia, Dr. Zakir Naik is a known name. This is mostly because of the prominent presence of his Islamist television channel named â€˜Peace TVâ€™, which claims itself to be the â€˜solution for humanityâ€™. Dr. Naik operates this channel from Britain under the banner of an organization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shahadat law against Quran, Sunnah: FSC</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/12/shahadat-law-against-quran-sunnah-fsc/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/12/shahadat-law-against-quran-sunnah-fsc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sharia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women in Islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE, 12 FebruaryA FULL bench of the Federal Shariat Court has held that sub-article 4 of article 151 of Qanun-e-Shahadat is repugnant to Quran and Sunnah and asked President of Pakistan to take appropriate steps for repeal of sub-article 4 within six months failing which the said provision would cease to have effect.
Under sub-article 4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t attack us please, UK ads to say on Pak TV</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/11/dont-attack-us-please-uk-ads-to-say-on-pak-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/11/dont-attack-us-please-uk-ads-to-say-on-pak-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[London The British government will air ads on Pakistani television urging terrorists to not attack Britain.
Prominent British Muslims will star in the British Foreign Office-funded Â£400,000 (approximately Rs 2.9 crore)-campaign that is set to break on Pakistani television next Monday, â€˜The Guardianâ€™ reported on Tuesday.
The three-month public relations offensive, called â€˜I Am the Westâ€™, will [...]]]></description>
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