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	<title>Levitt Letter Extra News &#187; Islam</title>
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	<description>Important articles that didn&#039;t make the Levitt Letter</description>
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		<title>No Valentines: Saudi religious police see red</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/13/no-valentines-saudi-religious-police-see-red/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Abdullah Al-shihri,  Associated Press 
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi religious police launched Thursday a nationwide crackdown on stores selling items that are red or in any other way allude to the banned celebrations of Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day, a Saudi official said.
Members of the feared religious police were inspecting shops for red roses, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geert Wilders, Anti-Islam Dutch Lawmaker Trial Update</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/12/geert-wilders-anti-islam-dutch-lawmaker-trial-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/12/geert-wilders-anti-islam-dutch-lawmaker-trial-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By                      Patrick Goodenough, International Editor, CNSNews.com

Photo: Dutch politician Geert Wilders following a court appearance in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Jan. 13, 2010. He is seeking to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly inciting hatred against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel’s response in Haiti teaches the world a lesson</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/03/israel%e2%80%99s-response-in-haiti-teaches-the-world-a-lesson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/03/israel%e2%80%99s-response-in-haiti-teaches-the-world-a-lesson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Jonathan Halevy
In the days following the Haiti earthquake, the international press was awash in astonishing reports commending Israel’s tremendous work in medical disaster response and setting up a field hospital operation that had other nations looking on in awe. Even as these reports left us feeling intense pride, our reaction back in Israel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s Muslims Protest Swiss Ban, But Deny Copts Same Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/12/20/egypts-muslims-protest-swiss-ban-but-deny-copts-same-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/12/20/egypts-muslims-protest-swiss-ban-but-deny-copts-same-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Williams, www.Bloomberg.com
On a side street in the far northeast Cairo suburb of Ain Shams, the door of a five-story former underwear factory is padlocked.
This is, or was supposed to be, the St. Mary and Anba Abraam Coptic Christian Church. Police closed it Nov. 24, 2008, when Muslims rioted against its consecration. Since then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating American Thanksgiving in Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/11/24/celebrating-american-thanksgiving-in-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/11/24/celebrating-american-thanksgiving-in-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marcy Oster, JTA  www.JewishJournal.com
Thanksgiving was always a day spent eating good food and watching some (hopefully) good football at my house. But in my husband’s family, Thanksgiving was truly a day of giving thanks, as each year his grandfather, J. Alex Link, spoke about his gratitude to the United States for taking him in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why autumn in Israel is yellow</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/27/why-autumn-in-israel-is-yellow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/27/why-autumn-in-israel-is-yellow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.Israel21c.org
In the U.S., the brilliant autumn foliage with its variations on red, orange, brown, and yellow never fails to delight the eye. In Israel and Europe, however, it&#8217;s mostly a one-color spread of yellow.
Researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel and the University of Kuopio in Finland have a new theory that stretches back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris pool bans Muslim woman in &#8216;burqini&#8217; swimsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/25/paris-pool-bans-muslim-woman-in-burqini-swimsuit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/25/paris-pool-bans-muslim-woman-in-burqini-swimsuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agence France-Presse (AFP)
PARIS — A Paris swimming pool refused entry to a young Muslim woman wearing a &#8220;burqini,&#8221; a swimsuit covering most of the body, officials said recently, adding to tensions over Muslim dress in France.
The incident came as French lawmakers conduct hearings on whether to ban the burqa after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmadinejad Proud of Holocaust Denial Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/23/1678/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/23/1678/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dudi Cohen, www.YNetNews.com
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, Sept 21,  he was proud he had managed to enrage the West by denying the Holocaust during a speech he made in Tehran in honor of Jerusalem day [actually, al-Quds Day, the last Friday of Ramadan when Muslims protest Zionism. Begun in 1979] .
Ahmadinejad was quoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50,000 Muslims to Descend on Capitol Hill September 25th</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/06/50000-muslims-to-descend-on-capitol-hill-september-25th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/06/50000-muslims-to-descend-on-capitol-hill-september-25th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hillel Fendel, www.IsraelNationalNews.com

A massive Islamic prayer service will be held on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. at the end of this month – and 50,000 Muslims are expected to take part.
For a few hours on Sept. 25, the site where U.S. presidents are traditionally inaugurated, will essentially be turned into a giant outdoor mosque. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Hijab… Or Not</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/05/to-hijab%e2%80%a6-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/05/to-hijab%e2%80%a6-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-10 Levitt Letter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Pipes, www.DanielPipes.org
Glamorous Muslim Political Women
In &#8220;Hijabs on Western Political Women&#8221; (see pictorial that follows below), I displayed a brood of queens, princesses, first ladies, members of congress, foreign ministers, journalists, and even movie stars looking anywhere from faintly ridiculous to outlandishly bad as they wear some variant of a hijab.
It then occurred to [...]]]></description>
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