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    <title>elan: The Guide to Global Muslim Culture &#45; WTFATWA</title>
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    <dc:creator>elan@elanthemag.com</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2010-09-08T14:27:12-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Sarah Palin &#45; Hijab Fan in Disguise?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Saturday, June 12th, Republican powerhouse, Sarah Palin, shot down claims that she has received breast augmentation after recent photographs of her bustier self went Web viral.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/sarah_palin_hijab_fan_in_disguise-nid975642657/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-06-16T15:13:53-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa Pamela Geller?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pamela Geller, a blogger and conservative activist who one commenter on New York&#8217;s Gawker blog calls a &#8220;poor man&#8217;s Ann Coulter,&#8221; has decided to take her fab Upper West Side stylings this week to dress up dowdy NYC buses with this cheerful message:&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_pamela_geller-nid835916481/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-05-27T18:35:34-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lebanese Songwriter Romantically Tells Women To Make Him A Sandwich</title>
      <link>http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/lebanese_songwriter_romantically_tells_women_to_make_him_a_sandwich_nid5718/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The popular Lebanese singer Mohammad Iskandar recently released an Arabic song entitled &#8220;Jumhoriyet Albi&#8221; (The Republic of my Heart) in which he encourages women to not pursue careers or education in exchange for taking care of his &#8220;heart.&#8221; In Lebanon and Syria, many women took offense to the song&#8217;s lyrics and demanded its omission from the Syrian radio waves via street protests.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/lebanese_songwriter_romantically_tells_women_to_make_him_a_sandwich_nid5718/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-05-19T13:58:55-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: Things Muslims Love &#45; Forwarding Chain Emails</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Muslims love many things, including forwarding junk emails to friends and family. They do it out of love and out of not understanding how the Internet works. How thoughtful!<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_things_muslims_love_forwarding_chain_emails-nid296683771/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-04-29T15:22:02-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: How to Lose a Muslim Girl in 10 Seconds: The First Move</title>
      <link>http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_how_to_lose_a_muslim_girl_in_10_seconds_the_first_move-nid249664771/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to find &#8220;the one.&#8221; Perhaps the hardest part of finding someone is making the first move (especially if you&#8217;re Muslim), but that hasn&#8217;t stopped some Muslim guys from coming up with creative approaches to landing a girl. I&#8217;m all for creativity and I understand that it&#8217;s difficult for Muslim guys to gauge whether a Muslim girl is interested in him or not, but believe me, the following methods arenot the way to go about finding your life partner.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_how_to_lose_a_muslim_girl_in_10_seconds_the_first_move-nid249664771/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-04-19T17:10:06-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Top 10: Simon Cowell Potential Conversion Moments</title>
      <link>http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/top_10_simon_cowell_potential_conversion_moments-nid409634115/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Amid recent speculation that Simon Cowell, the bitingly witty judge of American Idol and Britain&#8217;s Got Talent fame, may convert to Islam in advance of marrying his Muslim fiancee, we at Elan couldn&#8217;t help but wonder: how awesome would that be?!?! ...just for story value?&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/top_10_simon_cowell_potential_conversion_moments-nid409634115/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-04-13T17:21:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: April Fool&#8217;s, Jordan!</title>
      <link>http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_april_fools_jordan-nid501021639/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Last week, everyone in the world survived April Fool&#8217;s Day with their dignity intact, except Jordan. A Jordanian newspaper ran a front page story claiming that space aliens had landed in the city of Jafr, causing residents to flood the streets with panic, lock up their children, and above all, lose their minds. It&#8217;s no doubt hilarious and reminiscent of H.G. Well&#8217;s reading of War of the Worlds over the radio back in 1938. The jokesters involved with the hoax apologized for the inconveniences caused as they obviously only meant to entertain people.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_april_fools_jordan-nid501021639/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-04-07T14:28:22-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: Muslims Seeking Power Through &#8216;Gay Agenda&#8217;?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Apparently, a Minnesota Church recently bought an advertisement in the St. Cloud Times to bring attention to the &#8220;Moslem Threat&#8221; in America. In it, Pastor Dennis Campbell does his best to scare the Obama&#45;hating crucifixes off his Christian constituency by outlining the preferred &#8216;Moslem&#8217; method of takeover.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_muslims_seeking_power_through_gay_agenda-nid142978617/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-29T15:40:30-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: Light Beams May Replace Adhans in France &#45; Muslims Get Their Own Bat Call</title>
      <link>http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_light_beams_may_replace_adhans_in_france_muslims_get_their_own_bat-/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Oh France, you&#8217;ve really done it this time. First, the French took issue with the Muslim headscarf. Then they figured, let&#8217;s go after the &#8216;Burqa&#8217; to really make Muslim women look like &#8220;us&#8221;. And, while the French are busy thinking up their next plot to defame the religion of Islam, it seems that some Muslims in France are embarking on their own misguided attempts to thwart the French discrimination. This is one weird preemptive strike though.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_light_beams_may_replace_adhans_in_france_muslims_get_their_own_bat-/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-18T17:07:34-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: Muslims, the Stereotype Du Jour on NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Community&#8217;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For a while I couldn&#8217;t tell how NBC&#8217;s Community felt about Muslims. Abed, the Muslim character on the show, is amiable and so sagaciously uncharismatic that he&#8217;s actually intriguing the same way space aliens and insects are. Usually Community stays away from controversial &#8220;Islamic&#8221; topics but last week&#8217;s episode was a cluster bomb of ignorance.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/muslims_the_stereotype_du_jour_on_nbcs_community-nid265315804/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-17T14:06:10-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: Terrorists Might Need Nose Jobs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The UK Telegraph is reporting that potential terrorists, and even common criminals, have a new threat to worry about when trying to evade capture and it&#8217;s as plain as the nose on their faces. That&#8217;s right, new technology recently unveiled by British scientists places great emphasis on &#8220;nose analysis&#8221; as a credible means of identification for criminals.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_terrorists_might_need_nose_jobs-nid408485953/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-09T18:55:39-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: Can I Get Fries With That Racism? S&#8217;il Vous Plait.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Oh France, you have done it again. After attempts to ban the hijab, the burqa, and the niqab &#45; as visible symbols of the &#8220;Islamification&#8221; of the precious French (i.e. white) identity &#45; there is a new controversy that finds French Muslims unwillingly pitted against their non&#45;Muslim countrymen.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_can_i_get_fries_with_that_racism_sil_vous_plait-nid368483924/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-02-25T18:04:49-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: And the &#8220;Most Offensive Comment Award&#8221; goes to&#8230;</title>
      <link>http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_and_the_most_offensive_comment_award_goes_to-nid694489742/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since the discovery of &#8220;the Muslim&#8221; on 9/11, many have taken verbal shots at Muslim practices, culture, beliefs, people &#45; you name it. These comments are sometimes made under the guise of dialogue and sometimes they&#8217;re simply meant to provoke. Regardless, elan is here to let them know, &#8220;We heard you and we think you&#8217;re a jerk.&#8221; But who&#8217;s been the most offensive of all? Well as a magazine that believes in democracy, we&#8217;re giving you the opportunity to decide.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_and_the_most_offensive_comment_award_goes_to-nid694489742/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-02-18T16:47:58-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Things Muslims Love: Creating Facebook Groups</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Although Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, it is also an insatiable beast that demands two things in return: your time and dignity. Just like the rest of humanity, Muslims are on Facebook as well.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/things_muslims_love_creating_facebook_groups-nid14226500/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-02-09T16:07:25-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: Loser Muslim Guys Creeping Out Girls on the Internet</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The above picture is a screenshot of a series of email messages forwarded to me by a friend who was subjected to a common pastime amongst loser Muslim guys &#45; creeping out girls on the Internet.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_loser_muslim_guys_creeping_out_girls_on_the_internet-nid516476194/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-02-03T18:18:22-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa Literally! Western Media&#8217;s Love Affair With &#8220;The Fatwa&#8221;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Have you heard about what those crazy Muslims have been doing lately? Take Indonesia, for instance, where a small group of clerics in East Java recently issued a fatwa that girls should not chemically straighten their hair. (Straight hair is obviously the pathway to moral deviance. Curly&#45;haired girls are always so much better&#45;behaved.)<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_literally_western_medias_love_affair_with_the_fatwa-nid648636739/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-01-27T19:43:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Burj Khalifa &#45; Growing Pains, or Mishaps of Monumental Proportions?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The newly opened &#8220;Burj Khalifa&#8221; &#45; a.k.a. the tallest building in the world &#45; located in the Dubai was greeted by locals, royals, and celebrities in a blaze of glory complete with fireworks, media fanfare, and &#45; the true marker of a big deal &#45; a pretty groovy laser light show. However, what was once touted as a never before attempted odyssey between man and brute steel is now raising a whole bunch of eyebrows. A series of guffaws, disasters, missteps and utter failures has plagued the enormous monstrosity ever since its gilded doors were officially opened.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/burj_khalifa_growing_pains_or_mishaps_of_monumental_proportions-nid80650270/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-01-18T19:30:17-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lindsay Lohan Saves Indian Children!?</title>
      <link>http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/lindsay_lohan_saves_indian_children-nid511419709/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan has worn a lot of hats in recent years &#45; child star, mean girl, tabloid darling, It&#45;girl, rehab candidate&#8230; and, how now, here&#8217;s a new one:&amp;nbsp; BBC&#45;approved documentary filmmaker on child trafficking.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/lindsay_lohan_saves_indian_children-nid511419709/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-12-10T18:30:14-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Going Red in Kuwait &#45; Paan Spit Gets Out of Hand (or Mouth)</title>
      <link>http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/going_red_in_kuwait_paan_spit_gets_out_of_hand_or_mouth-nid659205877/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[While most countries of the world are &#8220;going green&#8221; for the sake of the environment, many people in Kuwait are going &#8220;red,&#8221; as they chew and spew homemade chewing tobacco&#45;esque concoctions made of both natural and synthetic ingredients. Once in the mouth, and the chewing begins, the result is a thick dark red sputum that the chewer propels out of their mouth and onto any available target &#45; sidewalk, wall, bus stop, elevator and the like. Charming, right?&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/going_red_in_kuwait_paan_spit_gets_out_of_hand_or_mouth-nid659205877/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-12-09T16:00:53-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Burqa Barbie Brings Out the Crazies</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Italian designer Eliana Lorena has outfitted 500 Barbies in cultural clothes from around the world to be sold at an auction in Florence, Italy in celebration of Barbie&#8217;s 50th anniversary. Mattel&#8217;s release of these 500 special collectors&#8217; Barbies spurred a lot of controversy, but you won&#8217;t hear about Kimono Barbie, Gomesi Barbie or Selwar Kameez Barbie. Nope. Everyone&#8217;s talking about Burqa Barbie &#45; and it&#8217;s not because they&#8217;re admiring her colorful choices.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/burqa_barbie_brings_out_the_crazies-nid749111578/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-11-30T16:20:23-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Terror Alert! Is Beyonce Bringing Sin to Egypt?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[America, it seems that for the past few years, we have been fighting the wrong enemy. We launched the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; to bring about a safer, more secure world. We flew brave young men and women to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and to Iraq for God knows what reason, yet all this time the threat had been living in our back yards. And thanks to the Muslim Brotherhood, we now know the real threat facing this world: Beyonce. Cue sinister music (and afterward, can you maybe play &#8220;Single Ladies?&quot;)<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/terror_alert_is_beyonce_bringing_sin_to_egypt-nid377461130/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-11-19T18:35:03-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Will the Ridiculousness Never End? Gaddafi Throws an Italian Villa Party</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Okay, I know that we here at elan have been a bit too Gaddafi happy lately, and probably all need therapy for our love/hate obsession with the Libyan dictator (I mean, have you seen his wardrobe collection?). We promise that we will stop blogging about him ... except when he does something too amazing to ignore, which unfortunately for us, is about once a week.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/will_the_ridiculousness_never_end_gaddafi_throws_an_italian_villa_party-nid/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-11-16T20:06:08-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa: How Creepy is the Ibn Sina Shopping Buddy?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ibn Sina, or Avicenna as he is popularly known, was one of the greatest Muslim philosophers to ever live, but philosopher wasn&#8217;t his only title. The man wore many turbans: physician, astronomer, mathematician, chemist, physicist, poet and psychologist. Not to mention, that some consider him the &#8220;father of geology.&#8221; This is precisely why a UAE lab decided to honor him by naming their first Arabic&#45;speaking conversational humanoid robot after him &#45; a robot designed to be used as a receptionist, sales clerk or shopping assistant.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_how_creepy_is_the_ibn_sina_shopping_buddy-nid983379703/">Read More</a>]]></description>
      <dc:subject>WTFATW</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-11-16T19:24:14-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Imagining An Arab Version of &#8220;The Office&#8221;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often imagined what it would be like if there was an Arab version of The Office. Before I say anything more, I must state for the record that I love my job &#45; at a non&#45;profit organization which provides invaluable services to the Arab&#45;American community. That said, it is a little bit like working on Sesame Street &#45; that is, if all the puppets wore hijabs and jalabiyas and acted like they might be on crack.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/imagining_an_arab_version_of_the_office-nid388887635/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-11-16T19:07:39-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>WTFatwa?! Now we have Islamic telemarketers?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Out of 800,000 cold calls made to non&#45;Muslims in Saudia Arabia, nearly 5,500 conversions to Islam resulted. <br />
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WTF! Hunh? Here&#8217;s how it works. The &#8220;Bring Me to Islam&#8221; cell phone service allows texters to enlist their friends as potential converts. Then a cleric or preacher would call to ascertain the person&#8217;s interest in converting. 5,500 people. While that&#8217;s a little less than 1%, that&#8217;s still staggering.&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/wtfatwa_now_we_have_islamic_telemarketers-nid219062881/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-11-10T19:14:41-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Malaysia&#8217;s Trouble in Paradise</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Have you seen &#8220;Couples Retreat?&#8221; It&#8217;s this hilarious new movie where 25 couples embark on a journey to one of Malaysia&#8217;s beautiful tropical island resorts and although only one of the couples is there to work on their marriage, the others soon discover that participation in the couples&#8217; therapy program is not optional ... and it&#8217;s state&#45;sponsored! It is laugh&#45;out&#45;loud funny because seriously, what nation would set up a state&#45;sponsored couples&#8217; retreat? Ha!<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/malaysias_trouble_in_paradise/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-10-22T14:32:30-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Fashion&#8217;s Most Unlikely Love&#45;affair &#45; The One&#45;Eyed Niqab</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Put away the gladiator boots, ruched bodices, and off&#45;the&#45;shoulder chiffons, ladies. The Fashion Police seem to have fallen in love with something totally unprecedented: the niqab!<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/fashions_most_unlikely_love_affair_the_one_eyed_niqab/">Read More</a>]]></description>
      <dc:subject>WTFATW</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-14T18:43:07-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>But wait&#8230;with the Laptop Burka gone, how will the U.S. strengthen ties with the Middle&#45;East?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Are you someone who wants people to stare at you in the process of trying to get people not to stare at you? Would you like your parents to assume you are looking at suspicious websites while you innocently check your email? Do you want to leave yourself open to a violent attack and possible robbery? If you answered yes to these questions, then I have the thing for you.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/but_waitwith_the_laptop_burka_gone_how_will_the_us_strengthen_ties_with_the/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-10-07T18:06:10-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>I Want the Number to Qaddafi&#8217;s Stylist</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Vanity Fair recently did a feature on the ever&#45;stylish Colonel Qaddafi of Libya. His fabulous wardrobe draws on various style influences from Damon Dash to Severus Snape and will have you wondering, &#8220;Is Qaddafi a misguided fashion disaster or misunderstood style genius?&#8221;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/i_want_the_number_to_qaddafis_stylist/">Read More</a>]]></description>
      <dc:subject>WTFATW</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-07T14:35:49-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Reason #1 to spell&#45;check your protest signs!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[We seriously condemn the writers behind this. A for effort and energy though!<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/reason_1_to_spell_check_your_protest_signs/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-09-28T14:31:07-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Top 10: No Cheek&#45;Kissing Fatwa</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In light of Haraam Flu (as my friends are calling H1N1/Swine Flu), a Jordanian fatwa was issued recently to discourage people from cheek&#45;kissing greetings for fear of transmission.&amp;nbsp; Although cheek kissing is a nice way to greet people, here are a few other benefits of sticking to handshaking:<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/top_10_no_cheek_kissing_fatwa/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-09-23T17:22:51-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>McCurry? Who&#8217;s McLovin&#8217; It?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&#8220;Justice has been served,&#8221; said Malaysian restaurant owner Kanaeges Suppiah after winning an eight&#45;year battle with McDonald&#8217;s over the name of her restaurant, McCurry.&amp;nbsp; Although McDonald&#8217;s claimed the restaurant was illegally infringing upon its trademark, Malaysia&#8217;s highest courts ruled that McCurry is allowed to use the prefix &#8220;Mc.&#8221;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/mccurry_whos_mclovin_it/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-09-22T14:01:30-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>How To Lose a Guy in 10 Decades</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A 107&#45;year old Malaysian woman has been married 22 times, reports CNN. Fearing her thirty&#45;something husband will leave her for good, she has a backup in the form of a fifty&#45;something gentleman from her own village.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/how_to_lose_a_guy_in_10_decades/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-09-15T18:02:15-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Desis with a Michael Jackson Complex</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&#8220;That&#8217;s just racist,&#8221; says Brida Karat, an honorable Member of Parliament in India as she comments in a CNN interview regarding a commercial for new skin whitener solutions for men.&amp;nbsp; The commercial begins by two young &#8220;go&#45;getters&#8221; trying to deconstruct why God hates the Indian fellow so much for giving him this horrid dark complexion.<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/desis_with_a_michael_jackson_complex/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-09-10T18:03:17-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>A Wudu Machine for the Challenged?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Part of me severely wants to poke fun at the new Auto Wudu Washer machine, whose promo video features a live demo of a brother making use of (or getting used by) the three&#45;tier, movement&#45;sensor activated, dua&#45;spouting&#45;auto&#45;drying machine (dryers for hands and feet!). It&#8217;s the same part of me that can&#8217;t believe people need detailed, printed instructions on how to make Ramen soup, and the same part that cringes when my brother says he&#8217;s going to play tennis, and then he turns on his Wii. Just go outside!&amp;nbsp;<br /><a href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/a_wudu_machine_for_the_challenged/">Read More</a>]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-09-09T14:34:40-05:00</dc:date>
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