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		<title>France reportedly bombs Somali town</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Associated Press  Oct 24, 2011 4:20 AM ET   &#160; Kenyaon Sunday said thatFrance&#8217;s navy bombed a town inSomalianear a stronghold of al-Shabab, the first confirmation that a Western military force is involved in the latest push against the Islamist militia. &#160; Thousands of people, meanwhile, fled a camp for the displaced nearSomalia&#8217;s capital on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naomi Klein: Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and syndicated columnist and the author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, now out in paperback. Her earlier books include the international best-seller, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (which has just been re-published in a special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich Muslim vows to pay all French burka fines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flamboyant Rachid Nekkaz pledges €1m to pay fines of French Muslim women caught wearing the full veil &#160; By Gavin Mortimer   The First Post  JULY 13, 2010 Share On the eve of tomorrow&#8217;s Bastille Day celebrations, there is more revolution in the air inFrance and this time the ringleader is a flamboyant Muslim businessman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BDS Update: Fighting Apartheid on Land and Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BDS Update: Fighting Apartheid on Land and Sea As the second Freedom Flotilla packs its humanitarian aid and prepares to brave the wrath of the Israeli navy, boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) activities continue on the home front, notes Eric Walberg.   Eric Walberg writes for Al-Ahram Weekly. You can reach him at http://ericwalberg.com/ His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prof. Marjorie Cohn: The Cases of Libya and Ivory Coast &#8211;The Responsibility to Protect</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 12:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Marjorie Cohn: The Cases of Libya and Ivory Coast &#8211;The Responsibility to Protect Marjorie Cohn is a professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, past president of the National Lawyers Guild, and deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her latest book is “The United States and Torture: Interrogation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France acquits man who urinated on Qur&#8217;an</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 09:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France acquits man who urinated on Qur&#8217;an News24     2011-05-09 14:01 Strasbourg &#8211; A French court on Monday acquitted a blogger of a charge of provoking discrimination related to burning a copy of the Qur&#8217;an in an internet broadcast and urinating on the book. The court in the north-eastern city of Strasbourg found that Ernesto Rojas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France&#8217;s Islam debate attacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France&#8216;s Islam debate attacked  Independent        AP    Wednesday, 30 March 2011 Religious leaders in France&#8217;s are protesting at plans for a political debate next week on Islam&#8217;s role in the country. They join a growing chorus of voices who fear it could stigmatise Muslims and worsen social tensions. The top representatives of France&#8217;s Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge considers allowing burqa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News 24 – 5 August 2010 Perth – A Muslim witness in an Australian fraud trial has requested permission to wear an all-covering burqa in court, in a case that has sparked nationwide interest and comments from campaigning politicians. District Court Judge Shauna Deane heard submissions on Thursday from lawyers on both sides about whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New claim links Sarkozy directly to scandal over l&#8217;Oréal money</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President demands end to &#8216;smears&#8217; after accountant alleges he accepted envelopes By John Lichfield in Paris Independent - 7 July 201 The seemingly unstoppable wildfire of the L&#8217;Oréal family feud and political funding scandal threatened yesterday to engulf President Nicolas Sarkozy. A former accountant for France&#8217;s wealthiest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, told investigators that she had made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s cabinet approves bill to ban full Islamic veil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 07:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite warnings move could be anti-constitutional, French president gives it his full backing Lizzy Davies     guardian.co.uk &#8211;  19 May 2010 Nicolas Sarkozy defended his ambition to impose a total ban on women wearing the full Islamic veil today, despite warnings that such a move could be anti-constitutional and socially incendiary. As interior minister Michèle Alliot-Marie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burka rage as female lawyer rips veil off Muslim woman in French clothes shop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 09:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Allen Daily Mail -  18 May 2010 A 60-year-old female lawyer ripped a Muslim woman&#8217;s Islamic veil off during a row in what French police described as the first known case of ‘burqa rage’. The astonishing scene unfolded in a clothes shop in France when the pair came to blows before being arrested. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Muslims feel victimised amid veil ban row</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 08:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bullets fired at mosque, halal butcher amid &#8216;rise of racism and Islamophobia&#8217; in France. Middle East Online – 30 April 2010 PARIS &#8211; Muslims in France say the government&#8217;s plan to fine women for wearing the veil is one in a string of political ploys that stigmatise them and pander to anti-Islamic prejudice. Extracts from the [...]]]></description>
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