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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.8.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:02:04 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Friendship &amp; Common Sense</title><subtitle>Friendship &amp; Common Sense</subtitle><id>http://thoughtleadership.squarespace.com/humanities-friendship/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://thoughtleadership.squarespace.com/humanities-friendship/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://thoughtleadership.squarespace.com/humanities-friendship/atom.xml"/><updated>2007-09-22T14:22:16Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.8.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Friendship and Common Sense</title><category term="Humanities"/><id>http://thoughtleadership.squarespace.com/humanities-friendship/2007/8/22/friendship-and-common-sense.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://thoughtleadership.squarespace.com/humanities-friendship/2007/8/22/friendship-and-common-sense.html"/><author><name>Afroz Ali</name></author><published>2007-08-22T16:15:50Z</published><updated>2007-08-22T16:15:50Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p align="justify" style="text-align: justify;">A lot has been said about Islam's supposed stance on friendship with people of other faiths. Unfortunately much of it is either fear-mongering, misunderstanding or sheer ignorance.</p><p align="justify" style="text-align: justify;">Here is a <a target="_blank" href="http://alghazzali.org/resources/articles/friendship.pdf">Paper</a> I presented on the Islamic concept of friendships, based on a normative understanding of Islam, not a selective one.&nbsp;</p>]]></content></entry></feed>