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...hotel attacks was the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan's most influential fundamentalist group. "What jihad is this," asked Jordanian columnist Taher Adwan, "when a young Arab man enters a hall where a wedding of Jordanian citizens is taking place to inflict the heaviest losses in life?" A similar local backlash against terrorism occurred when al-Qaeda attacks killed civilians in Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Egypt...
...breed of depression," he says. "They're the ones for whom it's nothing like as gray, and the suicide risk is not as great, but they're living lives of quiet desperation, or irritability, or crabbiness, (feelings) that drive their depression." He's concerned about the backlash against the drugs, which he concedes were oversold at first. His worry is that before long authorities, influenced by the "excessive beating" being handed out to the SSRIs, may ban their use by adolescents...
...banlieue and slammed rebellious youths as "scum"--which some protesters say stoked their anger. The rioting "is going to go on until they pull Sarkozy out of office," says K-Soc, 19, in Bobigny. "He heats things up and then leaves us here to deal with the police." But backlash against the violence is rising among the residents of the banlieues, who marched in silence through their charred neighborhoods on Saturday in a call for calm. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, considered Sarkozy's main rival for President, met with a group of teens and vowed to unveil a plan...
Gordon smiles when asked about the incident. He dismisses the assessor’s accusations as backlash from the political establishment...
Let’s face it. The Bush backlash has had Harvard whipped. The spectrum of acceptable discourse has grown narrower and narrower. Many students have told me they feel the need to censor themselves in the classroom. Others won’t go to political events that interest them for fear their peers or employers will find them guilty by association...