<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.6.5" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>They Call Me Muslim</title>
	<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim</link>
	<description>HT Blog</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:50:30 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Not quite the school of terror</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Welcome to the school of terror. Let me show you our terrorists, 3,800 in all,” jokes 70-year-old public relations officer Adil Siddiqui, pointing to students milling around a notice board in the main courtyard of Darul-Uloom, Deoband.
Siddiqui&#8217;s humour borders on sarcasm: “Had it not been for bin Laden, you would not have come visiting us.”
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/11/15/not-quite-the-school-of-terror/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Jamiat: One step forward, two steps backward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cheap thrills come at a price and it must have run into crores. How else can you get half a million clerics to oppose India’s sanitized national song, Vande Mataram?
The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (literally association of Indian Muslim clerics), at its November 2-3 conclave, passed a resolution endorsing a 2006 fatwa (decree) against singing Vande Mataram [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/11/08/jamiat-one-step-forward-two-steps-backward/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>What Bush did for India; what he didn&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had no consternation that, as one of the many hosts and facilitators of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, I would be attending to guests at a gala dinner where President George W. Bush would be the star attraction.
Here was a man who I think had wrecked much of the Muslim world.Yet, I was deeply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/11/01/what-bush-did-for-india-what-he-didnt/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Don’t take Muslims too seriously</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a thing or two about the government’s approach towards Muslims that is worrisome. One of them is that the government sometimes takes Muslims too seriously!
Take for instance the UPA government’s somewhat anxious efforts to streamline madrassa education, a system of education which is not just largely informal but its curriculum is also often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/10/25/don%e2%80%99t-take-muslims-too-seriously/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Now for a war on error</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Muslim-perpetrated terror creates Islamophobia; smart counter-insurgency should be able to purge it (by eliminating terrorism). Abusive counter-terrorism on the other hand fuels more terror and, therefore, more Islamophobia. Muslims clearly have more at stake in the war on terror than others do. 
When coordinated explosions ripped Delhi on September 13, 2008, people, regardless of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/10/19/now-for-a-war-on-error/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A Nobel for fighting Islamophobia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not entirely unanticipated but a surprise nonetheless. The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for President Obama has been received with churlish criticism and variously interpreted as a Nobel for political stardom and stirring speeches. It has also been called “a premature Nobel”.
The Republicans have officially reacted with skepticism. “The real question Americans are asking is, ‘What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/10/11/a-nobel-for-fighting-islamophobia/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A postcard from India’s Northeast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[History is bu-ran-ji in Assamese, the only word from the now-extinct Tai tribal language of the Ahom people &#8212; who ruled Assam’s Brahmaputra valley between the 13th and 18th century &#8212; to have survived. Assamese replaced Tai in the early 19th century.

The word is sometimes used in plural &#8212; bu-ran-jis, small booklets of records maintained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/10/04/a-postcard-from-india%e2%80%99s-northeast/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Four Madrigals and a Dirge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I
Sometimes I see
What we can be:
A billion-plus family
II
One is to another the poor snake,
That they think can only bite;
And leave hatred in its wake, And give the other ceaseless fright.
III
Death doth knows how I love him,
So this life amid feuding men can end;
Breath doth knows how I hate him,
When foes abound, not a friend.
IV
What else [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/09/27/four-madrigals-and-a-dirge/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Hanooz Dilli dur ast (Delhi is long way off)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do what you will, this world&#8217;s a fiction and is made up of contradiction. William Blake, English Poet.
Great cities are invariably those that stand on ruins of history &#8212; like Delhi. A city without history may have opulence and glistening high-rises but will lack a soul. Some years ago, I had interviewed then Canadian trade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/09/20/hanooz-dilli-dur-ast/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Sen and sensibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stating the obvious and explaining what needs no explanation are not always avoidable. Nor can we escape familiarity, though it may only breed contempt. This is especially true of Hindu-Muslim relations in India, largely defined by differences. A correction of perception one has of the other has to be emphasized; but the more this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2009/09/06/sen-and-sensibility/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
