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Choudary and Yahya belong to the extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, and though they speak for only a tiny fraction of Britain's 2 million Muslims, their views received grim publicity last week with the news that three British-born Muslims had been killed in Kabul--allegedly in a U.S. bombing raid on a Taliban compound--after volunteering for the jihad...
Others were less than thrilled with the episode. British-born Hugh Harris, a second year Kennedy School student voiced his disapproval. “I know what they were trying to do, but I don’t think it worked” he declared. “I thought the whole question and answer session was crude to the point of underestimating the intellect of its target audience. Trent Thompson, a first year student in the Masters of Public Policy program was less vehement in his assessment. “I felt like the whole point was to teach...
DIED. CHRISTOPHER HEWETT, 79, British-born stage actor who played the quick-witted and sarcastic title character in television's Mr. Belvedere, a onetime butler for English royalty who became housekeeper and mentor to a feeble-minded American family for five long years; in Los Angeles...
...fancy sports clothes, buy phone cards, ogle the newest models and shoot the breeze in broad Yorkshire accents. He accuses one of rioting; the youth politely demurs but quickly leaves. "We used to be beaten by gangs of whites and just took it," Hossain says. "These boys are British-born, and they want their rights." A tattooed white teenager from the poor Ravenscliff estate reacts unprintably to that notion. "The Muslims already get everything, we get nothing," he spits. The truth is that the system has failed both sides of the racial divide. Bradford's schools are among the worst...
...They did so with a vengeance two weekends ago in Oldham, a former textile town near Manchester. A skirmish outside a shop between two British-born teenagers, one of Asian descent and one white, triggered fighting between whites and non-whites. The Asian youths then turned on the police. The violence left dozens injured, cars torched and properties smashed. Though Oldham has quieted down, race relations are likely to remain contentious issues even after the election. Says Chris Myant, of the publicly funded Commision for Racial Equality (C.R.E.), "While you have a picture of significant success in some areas...