http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/ City of Brass is principled, pragmatic punditry from the perspective of a Muslim of the West en Copyright 2009 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:54:42 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/imgs/bg_icon.gif http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/ 82 100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss city_of_brasshttp://feedburner.google.com44.656686-90.181521Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with Google Several thousand Iranians marched on Tehran University today in protest of the election, on the anniversary of a student protest in 1999: The demonstration is taking place on the 10th anniversary of a student uprising that, at the time,... <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/G3s4dQgofCcH7hN_g0edPF8XV74/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/G3s4dQgofCcH7hN_g0edPF8XV74/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/G3s4dQgofCcH7hN_g0edPF8XV74/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/G3s4dQgofCcH7hN_g0edPF8XV74/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5ru77UzwfiBZkp7IyBvmOq3ZsNc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5ru77UzwfiBZkp7IyBvmOq3ZsNc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5ru77UzwfiBZkp7IyBvmOq3ZsNc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5ru77UzwfiBZkp7IyBvmOq3ZsNc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?a=3gJyVGvY708:9Gns8aWRZSM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?a=3gJyVGvY708:9Gns8aWRZSM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?i=3gJyVGvY708:9Gns8aWRZSM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?a=3gJyVGvY708:9Gns8aWRZSM:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?a=3gJyVGvY708:9Gns8aWRZSM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?i=3gJyVGvY708:9Gns8aWRZSM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?a=3gJyVGvY708:9Gns8aWRZSM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/city-of-brass?i=3gJyVGvY708:9Gns8aWRZSM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/city-of-brass/~4/3gJyVGvY708" height="1" width="1"/> City of Brass http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/city-of-brass/~3/3gJyVGvY708/the-iranian-crucible-islam-dem.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2009/07/the-iranian-crucible-islam-dem.html Shi'a Crescent democracy Green Revolution Iraq Islam News politics Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:54:42 -0500 http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2009/07/the_iranian_crucible_islam_dem_comments.html Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2009/07/the-iranian-crucible-islam-dem.html Color me unsurprised - 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http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2009/07/republican_town_hall_on_health_comments.html Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2009/07/republican-town-hall-on-health.html Horrific repression of the Uighurs (or Uyghurs, depending on how you transliterate their name from Mandarin) in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang: Several hundred people were arrested after a protest, in the city of Urumqi on Sunday, turned... <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kvs4Y3IO9tk6Wdv5uiGoml3_YJU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kvs4Y3IO9tk6Wdv5uiGoml3_YJU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kvs4Y3IO9tk6Wdv5uiGoml3_YJU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kvs4Y3IO9tk6Wdv5uiGoml3_YJU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ofhD2pD1VzR-LjUp4bMlH7CCeCk/0/da"><img 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