The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Film Review

Its message might be flabby, but Mira Nair’s adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel is still a bold piece of global storytelling. Based on the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid, this is an ambitious, heartfelt tale of divided loyalties in a world where complacent belief in the triumph of globalised capital was shattered by the Twin…

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Peace-Seeking Muslims Should “Refudiate” Sarah Palin

By JEFFREY GOLDBERG Sarah Palin has called on “peace-seeking Muslims” to “refudiate” plans by the The Cordoba Initiative, a Muslim organization, to build a mosque and community center near the site of Ground Zero. After someone alerted her to the fact that “refudiate” isn’t actually a word, she deleted the original tweet and sent out…

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    Italian prosecutors criticize international terrorism “blacklists”

    By Luigi Ferrarella Milan – “The mere insertion” of the name of a person “on the so-called blacklists” of suspected financiers of international Islamic terrorism, compiled by the UN and the Council of the European Union, along the lines of what the United States has done after the Twin Towers massacre of 11 September 2001,…

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      Former Imam Of Finsbury Park Mosque Has Lost Appeal

      The Former Imam Of The Finsbury Park Mosque, London, Has Lost His Appeal Against Detention Without Trial. Abu Qatada, described as an “inspiration” for terrorists both here and abroad, has been held for more than a year under emergency powers introduced after the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York.

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