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	<title>Talk Islam &#187; minorities</title>
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	<description>a crescent waxing eloquent</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>On October 1st, Issue #1 of my DC comics &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://talkislam.info/2008/10/19/on-october-1st-issue-1-of-my-dc-comics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 1st, Issue #1 of my DC comics miniseries Vixen: Return of the Lion hit stores. Vixen is a minor character in the DC Universe who recently rose to prominence when she was added to the Justice League, run by the most famous trifecta in comics: Superman, Batman and Wonderwoman. RotL is the first [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On October 1st, Issue #1 of my DC comics miniseries <em>Vixen: Return of the Lion</em> hit stores. Vixen is a minor character in the DC Universe who recently rose to prominence when she was added to the Justice League, run by the most famous trifecta in comics: Superman, Batman and Wonderwoman. RotL is the first miniseries dedicated to a black heroine that DC has ever published. I&#8217;ve become the first Muslim ever to write Superman and Batman. One small step for comics, one respectable leap for minority writers and characters. </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="http://www.earth-2.net/theshow/episodes/e2ts_275.mp3" rel="external">a glowing review</a> from Earth 2. (Starts about halfway through the podcast and continues for about eight minutes.)</p>
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		<title>Speaking of Kuwait, women aren&#8217;t the on &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://talkislam.info/2008/06/20/speaking-of-kuwait-women-arent-the-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Kuwait, women aren&#8217;t the only population around whom the net is being tightened:  after much argument, Kuwait&#8217;s Bohra community has officially been denied the right to open a mosque. 
I have a sneaking suspicion that much of the state religious intolerance we see in the ME these days is a smokescreen for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking of <a href="http://talkislam.info/2008/06/19/more-details-about-the-draft-law-being-p/">Kuwait</a>, women aren&#8217;t the only population around whom the net is being tightened:  after much <a href="http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTA1MjM1MzA2Mg==">argument</a>, Kuwait&#8217;s Bohra community has officially been <a href="http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NDYyMzQzNDgy">denied the right</a> to open a mosque. </p>
<p>I have a sneaking suspicion that much of the state religious intolerance we see in the ME these days is a smokescreen for the paranoia of authoritarian regimes. Dictators and kings seem to view any organized minority group as a potential source of unrest and a threat to their power. In Egypt, the state pretends it&#8217;s shutting out the Baha&#8217;i under pressure from fundamentalists (which do exist in Egypt in abundance, a fact the state cleverly manipulates to keep its western allies a) afraid and b) out of Egypt&#8217;s business) when really it&#8217;s because the Baha&#8217;i are a mobile, organized, monied minority. What you don&#8217;t here is that the Mubarak regime is also trying to make it illegal to be in a rock band, and routinely arrests rockers&#8211;because as we all know, rockers are also an organized, vocal, anti-authoritarian group. Both Baha&#8217;i and rock musicians are generally well-tolerated by the public. The same goes for Egypt&#8217;s large Bohra community. When I was in Alexandria a few years ago, the (Sunni) officials at the mosque of Nabi Daniel actually closed the building to passerby while the Bohra were conducting a prayer inside. But mark my words, if there&#8217;s ever a hint of a rumor that the Bohra are agents for a foreign government or fomenting opposition, there will suddenly be &#8220;religious pressure&#8221; to drive them underground.</p>
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		<title>Institutionalised racism and social stig &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://talkislam.info/2008/05/26/institutionalised-racism-and-social-stig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 04:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thabet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Institutionalised racism and social stigma are contributing to the high suicide rates amongst Asian women in Britain.

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