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		<title>Political vs Politicised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salam &#8216;aleikum Asim Siddiqui, I agree with you completely:
The Islamic movements dominated Muslim political discourse in the 20th century. Political models coming from the west, such as representative democracy and accountable governments, were at best seen as tools to achieve an Islamic theocracy or at worst dismissed as unIslamic. Meanwhile monarchies, dictatorships and tyranny were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2008/02/28/who-needs-an-islamic-state/</link>
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		<title>Why the Archbishop got it wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether Rowan Williams is a good man or a bad man; an intellectual or an academic; a highly sensitive soul or a machinating demagogue or whether or not he deserved the tabloid-led backlash is irrelevent to the position that he took when he delivered his speech, Civil and Religious Law in England: a Religious Perspective.
What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2008/02/18/why-the-archbishop-got-it-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Do not adjust your sets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello? Hello?
We&#8217;re back!
We&#8217;ve been out of action for the better part of January thanks to Russian hackers and DOS attacks.
Expect normal service (rants, reviews and rabid opinions) to resume.
And to those who kept pinging/asking me &#8220;Dude, where the hell is your blog?&#8221;, thanks for the interest and for sticking it out. I didn&#8217;t realise I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2008/02/05/do-not-adjust-your-sets/</link>
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		<title>Pieces of a childhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the first and second prizewinners from the UNICEF Photo of the Year award for 2007.
First Prize: Child Brides [photo: Stephanie Sinclair]

Meet the Afghani newlyweds. He, Faiz, is forty and she, Ghulam, is eleven. &#8220;We                    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2007/12/22/pieces-of-a-childhood/</link>
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		<title>Denying Genocide and Rape at the LSE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday 4 December, the Indian-American historian Dr Sarmila Bose (Department of Politics and International Relations, University  of Oxford) will be delivering a talk, hosted by the Pakistan Society, at the London School of Economics. Today I signed a joint letter to the LSE to voice, in the strongest terms possible, disgust that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2007/11/30/denying-genocide-and-rape-at-the-lse/</link>
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		<title>We are all Nur Hossain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Mash has posted a rousing tribute to Nur Hossain.
Nur Hossain is a legend of the pro-democracy movement in Bangladesh, where his memory is celebrated on this day.
On November 10, 1987 a young Bangladeshi man named Nur Hossain was shot and killed by the forces of Bangladesh’s part-time poet and full time dictator General Hossain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2007/11/10/we-are-all-nur-hossain/</link>
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		<title>The Outrage economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monica Ali has kept a dignified silence since the &#8220;controversy&#8221; surrounding the filming of the movie of her book &#8220;erupted&#8221; last year. She has now written a brilliant comeback to the criticisms she&#8217;s received, not forgetting Prince Charles&#8217; cowardly boycot of the film premiere last month.
She is also critical of the Guardian&#8217;s agenda of bigging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2007/10/13/the-outrage-economy/</link>
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		<title>The Legend of Bonbibi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

In the Sundarbans, an archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal, legend has it that Bonbibi, &#8216;the lady of the forest&#8217;, was chosen by Allah to protect people who work in the mangrove forests against a greedy man-eating half Brahmin half tiger-demon called Dokkhin Rai, the King of the South.

One day, in a fit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2007/10/11/the-legend-of-bonbibi/</link>
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		<title>Sultan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
  

Today is the 13th anniversay of the death of S M Sultan.
Sultan&#8217;s paintings may be sold at Sotheby&#8217;s in London today but for the people of rural Norail, the guru entered folk legend more than half a century ago. They tell us that animals were drawn to him, that he could converse with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2007/10/09/sultan/</link>
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		<title>Free Burma</title>
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Join the growing list of international bloggers in a day of support for the brave people of Burma. Sign up here and just post one banner post on October 4, 2007 with the words &#8220;Free Burma!&#8221;.
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		<link>http://golmal.pickledpolitics.com/2007/10/01/free-burma/</link>
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