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		<title>A Letter From Tareq Mehanna</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/a-letter-from-tareq-mehanna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Prisoner Update]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[26th of Dhu al-Qa&#8217;dah, 1430 / 14th of November, 2009
In the Name of Allah, I praise Allah and invoke peace and blessings on the Messenger of Allah.
as-Salamu &#8216;alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh;
First of all, I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your immense support. Each and every person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alistiqaamah.wordpress.com&blog=2640793&post=259&subd=alistiqaamah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write to Eesa Barot</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/write-to-eesa-barot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[From the prisoners...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dhiren Barot]]></category>
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Please write to brother Eesa Barot. The following information MUST be included in any correspondence (Eid cards etc), otherwise mail is sent to the prison which Eesa is unable to receive.
1) Name and prisoner number
2) Address of prison
3) A return address and the name of the sender
Eesa Barot A6317AC
HMP Full Sutton
E Wing
Moor Lane
Stamford Bridge
York
YO41 1PS
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		<title>The Story of the Brown Box</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/the-story-of-the-brown-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Personal Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisoner Update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aafia siddiqui]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by  Dr. Aafia&#8217;s brother.
This is the true story of a Brown Box.  An ordinary cardboard box. Not too big, not too small. Nothing special. It was the kind of an everyday box used to package every thing from priceless objects to toilet paper.
A few months ago, I came home one evening to find this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alistiqaamah.wordpress.com&blog=2640793&post=247&subd=alistiqaamah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Abandonment of Tarek Mehanna</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/the-abandonment-of-tarek-mehanna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Make a difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[


 

 When Tarek Mehanna was arrested, many muslims online rightly felt that this was a sham arrest, full of inconsistencies and a blatant attempt to “stitch up” a practising muslim brother whose only crime was to speak the word of tawheed and adhere to the sunnah. I say “many muslims” rather than “all” because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alistiqaamah.wordpress.com&blog=2640793&post=245&subd=alistiqaamah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Need To Read This</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/you-need-to-read-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For just a moment, I&#8217;d like to ask you to place yourself in my brother&#8217;s situation. You have a bright future as a pharmacist earning six figures. You come from a cushy life, no debt, and you have a pretty comfortable future to look forward to. The FBI approaches you and gives you this choice: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alistiqaamah.wordpress.com&blog=2640793&post=243&subd=alistiqaamah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Tareq Mehanna Official Facebook Group:</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/free-tareq-mehanna-official-facebook-group/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tariq Mehanna is a 27 year old Muslim Egyptian American born and raised in the United States. Highly educated, Tariq holds a doctorate in pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. He is a devout and tolerant Muslim who is not only respected in the local Islamic and interfaith communities, but who also gives back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alistiqaamah.wordpress.com&blog=2640793&post=241&subd=alistiqaamah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Land Foundation defendant&#8217;s family unhappy with prison treatment</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/holy-land-foundation-defendants-family-unhappy-with-prison-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ghassan Elashi]]></category>
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Noor Elashi, daughter of Ghassan Elashi (pictured at right), who was sentenced to 65 years in prison earlier this year for supporting Hamas through the formerly Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation, says that a guard at the Seagoville federal prison has treated her father unfairly.
According to Noor, the guard has recommended Elashi&#8217;s family visits be suspended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alistiqaamah.wordpress.com&blog=2640793&post=237&subd=alistiqaamah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Eid?</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/happy-eid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[










&#8220;Come to us with fragrance
With Glory and Clear Victory&#8221;
On behalf of us all at al-istiqamah.com                        we wish you all the best on our celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr.       [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alistiqaamah.wordpress.com&blog=2640793&post=234&subd=alistiqaamah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Backbone that Never Breaks</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/the-backbone-that-never-breaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alistiqaamah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Seeking Istiqamah]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[{“And from the people is he who worships Allah as if he were on an edge. If good befalls him, he is content with it. And if a trial befalls him, he turns back on his face. He loses both this world and the Hereafter. That is the clear  loss.”} [al-Hajj; 11]
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		<title>Paralysed Girl&#8217;s Story Reflects Gaza&#8217;s Plight</title>
		<link>http://alistiqaamah.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/paralysed-girls-story-reflects-gazas-plight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gaza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four-year-old Samar Abed Rabbu lost her two sisters during Israel&#8217;s offensive in Gaza last December and January.
The BBC&#8217;s Christian Fraser has been following the plight of Samar and her family &#8211; now divided across two continents, as Samar receives treatment in Belgium with her mother.
Throughout these months of gruelling therapy Belgian doctors say Samar Abed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alistiqaamah.wordpress.com&blog=2640793&post=230&subd=alistiqaamah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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