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		<title>9/11, Burning Qurans, and Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent email from Gen. David Petraeus, the American commander in Afghanistan, to the Associated Press (September 7, 2010), &#8220;Images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan &#8212; and around the world &#8212; to inflame public opinion and incite violence.&#8221; Well&#8211;duh. Petraeus is referring to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worst Flooding in a Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a link to an interview with Fayyaz Baquir, Director of the Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Center in Islamabad conducted by Maggie Ronkin over at Anthropology Works. An excellent interview with an informant who really understands what is happening on the ground and links to credible relief organizations. slg The floods in Pakistan An [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slgardiner.com/xenophilia/2010/08/worst-flooding-in-a-century/</link>
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		<title>Legacy of Torture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[26 August 2010. New York Times, Editorial: &#8220;Legacy of Torture.&#8221; The NYT notes that government cases against Guantanamo prisoners who have been tortured either by the U.S. or its allies are being thrown out of court by American judges, since information obtained via the use of &#8220;enhanced interrogation&#8221;&#8211;aka torture&#8211;is unreliable. Note that while the Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan, Flooded and Failing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For several years I have been lecturing and teaching courses related to Pakistan in which I have spent a good bit of my time debunking the popular &#8220;failed state&#8221; (or failing state) trope. So much coverage has been framed in terms of the &#8220;nuclear-armed&#8221; country falling to radical Islamists who then get their hands on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slgardiner.com/xenophilia/2010/08/pakistan-flooded-and-failing/</link>
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		<title>Fundamentalisms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sayyid Ahmed al Qabbanji is a liberal Iraqi scholar of Islam. He spoke this week in Abu Dhabi, at the majlis of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. (A majlis is a gathering&#8211;literally a &#8220;place of sitting&#8221;&#8211;but more generally a hosted forum for discussion and hospitality.) According to today&#8217;s National, Mr al [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dongria Kondh Win Key Victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dongria Kondh, a traditional group in India, has won a hard-fought victory against the multi-billion dollar mining company Vedanta Resources. According to Survival International India&#8217;s Environment Minister  Jairam Ramesh ruled yesterday that the mining giant&#8217;s plans to extract bauxite from from hills sacred to the small tribal group in the eastern part of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slgardiner.com/xenophilia/2010/08/dongria-kondh-win-key-victory/</link>
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		<title>Lahore to Abu Dhabi (2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Islam, Ramadan is a lunar month of daytime fasting and prayer marked by a ritual breaking of the fast at sunset, called Iftar. While the Prophet of Islam broke his fast on dates and milk, contemporary Iftars can be quite elaborate and restaurants do a brisk business in fast-breaking buffets and meals. In Abu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lahore to Abu Dhabi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have lived with my wife and partner Angie Reed Garner and our German shepherd Heathcliff in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, since August 2008. We moved here directly from Lahore, Pakistan, where I had been a professor at the Lahore University of Management Science (LUMS) in 2007 &#8211; 2008. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slgardiner.com/xenophilia/2010/08/abu-dhabi-streets/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Xenophilia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The blog collects the occasional writings of Steven L. Gardiner. Many of the posts are political in nature, others deal with issues of culture and identity. I welcome comments and feedback. If you like what you see, please do add it to your feed or re-post it to your social networking site. I appreciate the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slgardiner.com/xenophilia/2010/08/welcome-to-xenophilia/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8211;But Do Pay Attention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Belkin is the director of the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Palm does research on sexual minorities in the military and have been strong advocates for the repeal of the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy in the U.S. armed forces. (Image from the Palm Center.) I met Aaron at the [...]]]></description>
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