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...railways, and its civil service. While many political parties pledge to defend India's Muslims against Hindu nationalism, they rarely deliver promised roads, jobs and schools. "The disaffection of Indian Muslims is not any different in its quality from the disaffection of other parts of the underclass, whether Muslim, Christian or Hindu," says Bharat Karnad, a professor of national-security studies at the New Delhi - based Centre for Policy Research. The difference is that well-funded, radicalized madrasahs reach out to this part of India's underclass, Karnad says. "The government and its 'secular-minded' politicians are unwilling to accept...
...cuts have been severely criticized at a time when German companies are earning record profits; there is a widespread sense that workers most often pay the price for the mistakes of senior executives. The outcry is not limited to the unions and leftist parties; even the conservative Christian Democrats are jumping on the bandwagon. A working group of the CDU parliamentary faction has suggested setting strict limits to remunerating executives with stock options, or even banning the practice outright...
...Obama?" the wife of the leader of the Red Mosque said with pronounced derision. "If he is elected president he will invade Mecca and turn it into a Christian city. Muslims will fight this man to the last drop of blood...
...plus features achieved any kind of release here, and you'll go nuts trying to find his stuff on DVD. But at film festivals, he was for decades the prime, often the only, representative of an entire continent, Africa, and a world religion, Islam - this though his family was Christian and his ancestors came from Greece and Lebanon. He was born in Alexandria and grew up during a chaotic time for the planet and for Egypt: World War II, when Rommel's Army marched toward his hometown, and the postwar invention of the state of Israel, which the Arab world...
...mutter, "God protect us!" and "All these new-fangled ideas lead to Hell!" But Chahine was also a nationalist. His 1963 bio-pic Saladin, about the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria, found a clear connection between Saladin's uniting of North African and Mideast Arabs against the Christian Crusaders and Nasser's formation of the Egypt-Syria United Arab Republic to fight Israel. (Saladin was played by Ahmed Mazhar, who had attended the Cairo Military Academy with Nasser and Sadat.) Several Chahine films, including The Sparrow in 1973 and the 1978 The Return of the Prodigal Son (loosely...