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...modern-day gentrifiers. "Police! Police! Open up," one officer yelled as another stood nervously in the street, holding his gun at the ready. They busted in the door on several clapboard homes after smelling something foul, fearing that bodies were inside. "One lady told us to go to hell," says Staff Sergeant Vincent Rodney of the Oklahoma National Guard, "but they're all gonna have to leave...
...think for a second we don't know about New Orleans. We have all listened to WWL radio. We have a saying here: "We may be in Purgatory on the Gulf Coast, but those poor souls in New Orleans are in the inner ring of Hell." I can't fully convey how poorly the officials both here and there failed in getting the word out to people who did not know how to handle themselves in a Category 4/5. I've lived here long enough and interviewed enough Hurricane Camille victims that when I battened down the hatches I made...
...mullahs overrun the valley, women are ordered to wear the veil and Muslims are separated from Hindus. This Islamic brutality is reciprocated by the Indian army, which destroys villages suspected of harboring terrorists. The mullahs and the army take turns in grinding paradise into hell, and Rushdie chronicles their misdeeds with mounting anger. As he recalls the violence that forced the Hindus out of the Kashmir valley in the 1990s, words gush out of him in a reflux of rage: "... and the pandits of Kashmir were left to rot in their slum camps, to rot while the army and insurgency...
...young woman with a checkered employment record inherits her grandmother's matchmaking business, and takes on the client from hell. That's this super Chicago sports agent, who expects him to find her the perfect wife. His idea of perfect and her idea of perfect are a little bit different. I think it's a little bit like Bridget Jones meets Jerry Maguire. I loved that movie...
...with dismay that I hear the worn-out excuses offered by both liberal and militant Muslims for committing grievous crimes against innocent people. The world is not a perfect place, but when the rest of us don't get what we want, we aren't hell-bent on bringing down the whole house. My advice to clearheaded Muslims is to look closely and honestly at the real reasons behind the scourge of terrorism. If they do not, then self-destruction is inevitable. James Gogo Bonny, Nigeria...