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		<title>Fighting &#8216;Terror with Terror&#8217; in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inside Karachi is a US military compound that houses elite commandos, referred to here as mercenaries, who are and have planned attacks on ‘high valued targets’ of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Referencing ‘a well-placed source within the US military intelligence apparatus,’ investigator Jeremy Scahill suggests that these mercenaries are agents of Xe Service, formerly known to us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&blog=5604874&post=571&subd=craigconsidine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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The influx of Muslims into the EU, along with the simultaenous exacerbation of Islamophobia across the European continent (and in the world), are challenging both the saliency of Europe’s poli-cultural identity and the climate of tolerance in relation to what Europeans have historically perceived as the antithesis of ‘Europeaness’: the Islamic religion. 
The Open Society Institute (OSI), an independent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&blog=5604874&post=547&subd=craigconsidine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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An 8-year-old boy from Taunton, Massachusetts has motivated me to finally express my disdain for the way people celebrate Christmas. Now I am not religious and nor am I a Christian, but I highly respect and revere Jesus’ teachings. This particular story really got under my skin and drove me to reflect on what I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&blog=5604874&post=540&subd=craigconsidine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have you forgotten Church bells?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Sam from Kuwait e-mailed me this powerful article from Al Qabas Newspaper (Kuwait) that addresses the double standards of tolerance held by Kuwaitis in relation to their condemnation of the recent Swiss minaret ban.  In summary, the author argues that like the racist and xenophobic tendencies of European society, many Muslim countries are also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&blog=5604874&post=531&subd=craigconsidine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s arrogance and Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Considine</dc:creator>
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I am particularly annoyed by Obama’s recent &#8216;Manifest Destiny&#8217; exhortation at the Naval Academy in which he argued that the US’s  ‘moral authority’ justifies the American mission in Afghanistan.  In suggesting he is doing Afghanis a ‘favor’ by securing for them democracy and liberal principles through a 30,000 troop surge, Obama is subliminally insinuating that American values are &#8216;morally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigconsidine.wordpress.com&blog=5604874&post=523&subd=craigconsidine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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