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		<title>Saudi Women Have Won The Right To Vote</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/09/26/saudi-women-have-won-the-right-to-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2011/09/26/saudi-women-have-won-the-right-to-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JennY</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia&#8217;s 88-year-old king gave women the right to vote and to run in municipal elections on Sunday. This is a big step towards equality, although women will have more power in theory rather than in practice. They won&#8217;t be able to vote until 2015 and will be barred from next week&#8217;s elections. It&#8217;s disappointing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Set To Ban Burqas</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/08/03/italy-set-to-ban-burqas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sedera of the Island</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September, Italy could be the next country to pass a law banning burqas, following in the footsteps of France and Belgium. A parliamentary commission approved a draft of the law on Tuesday. The current draft forbids women from wearing a burqa or naqib, but also prohibits anyone from covering their faces with a motorcycle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Thrown Off Bus For Wearing Veil</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/07/05/women-thrown-off-bus-in-new-zealand-for-wearing-veil/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2011/07/05/women-thrown-off-bus-in-new-zealand-for-wearing-veil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sedera of the Island</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tolerance is a quality a lot of people think they possess. In practice, it’s a little more complicated, especially when we tackle the subject of burqas. A Saudi student, Gawheer Saud Al Thaubity, was left in tears on the side of the road after she tried to board a bus with her son in Auckland, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circumcision Is &#8220;Barbaric And Stupid,&#8221; He Crows</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/06/10/circumcision-is-barbaric-and-stupid-russell-crowe/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2011/06/10/circumcision-is-barbaric-and-stupid-russell-crowe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sedera of the Island</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The intactivist movement has a strong candidate for a new spokesman in Russell Crowe, who went on a violent rant against male circumcision on Twitter yesterday after one of his followers asked him if he should get his son circumcised. Calling the practice “barbaric and stupid,” he indiscriminately shot down any objections his followers made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesting Hijabs In Olympic Soccer</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/06/08/women-sports-religion-soccer-iran-fifa-olympics-hijab/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2011/06/08/women-sports-religion-soccer-iran-fifa-olympics-hijab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tinybart</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://morningquickie.com/?p=28177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fans always want it to be about the love of the game, but for Iranian women following Islamic tradition, their sneakers are laced with deep religious ties. In an Olympic qualifying round held in Jordan, the Iranian soccer team was disqualified because women refused to take off their hijabs. The head of the Iranian soccer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UAE Judges Solve Divorce Crisis By Trying To End Women&#8217;s Right To Request One</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/06/01/uae-judges-divorce-crisis-womens-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2011/06/01/uae-judges-divorce-crisis-womens-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tinybart</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://morningquickie.com/?p=27276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Divorce is usually a mutual decision by two people. It&#8217;s not always amicable, but the blame for the dissolution of marriage can rarely be placed on one spouse. But women alone are being blamed for the high divorce rate in the UAE by judicial officials. The tradition was that men had to make three statements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty Pageant Contestant Stoned to Death</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/06/01/beauty-pageant-contestant-stoned-to-death/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2011/06/01/beauty-pageant-contestant-stoned-to-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crazy Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://morningquickie.com/?p=27211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A group of three men are being charged with the murder of Katya Koren in Ukraine, after allegedly stoning her to death for apparently violating Islam as a beauty pageant contestant. The men in question believe that Katya was betraying Sharia Law by not dressing modestly and participating in the competition, in which she placed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan Now Protects Transgender Rights Better Than Texas</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/04/27/pakistan-transgender-rights-texas-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2011/04/27/pakistan-transgender-rights-texas-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JennY</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://morningquickie.com/?p=23539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two big changes regarding transgender rights have been proposed this week. One would legally recognize transgendered citizens as a third gender, and one would refuse to recognize a sex change. Let’s see if you can guess which law was proposed in the US and which in Pakistan. If you guessed that Pakistan proposed recognizing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did God Have A Wife?</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/03/21/did-god-have-a-wife/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2011/03/21/did-god-have-a-wife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://morningquickie.com/?p=20405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[God&#8217;s wife was erased from the Bible, a British theologian has discovered. Back in the day before Muslims and Christians, God was called Yahweh and he was worshiped along with his wife, Asherah. At least according to Francesca Stavrakopoulou, a lecturer at the department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter. &#8220;After years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fatwa For Female Genital Mutilation</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2011/01/19/a-fatwa-for-female-genital-mutilation/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2011/01/19/a-fatwa-for-female-genital-mutilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://morningquickie.com/?p=16960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Northern African Islamic Republic of Mauritania has issued a fatwa, or Islamic law, banning female genital mutilation (FGM). The authors of the law used religious legal experts to support this change in law. The experts supported &#8220;their assertion that [s]uch practices were not present in the Maghreb countries over the past centuries&#8221; and removed [...]]]></description>
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