Word: salaam
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...isn’t the point. Instead, as the preparations for an arranged marriage between two wealthy New Delhi families unfold, we engage in the heady rush towards the cosmopolitanism which India’s burgeoning middle classes have so eagerly embraced. Mira Nair ’79 of Salaam Bombay and Mississipi Masala fame has often been criticized for selling Indian poverty in documentary form to the West. Monsoon Wedding represents a stark departure from these previous features. Making little or no attempt to represent income disparities, it instead celebrates the joys of excess and consumption, perfectly illustrated through...
...Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said complaints of discrimination and violence against Muslims have skyrocketed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
According to Salaam, some Muslims themselves have inadvertently helped perpetuate negative stereotypes by not taking the initiative to educate others on their religion and way of life...
...Violence [against Muslims] is only an option when people are not active,” Salaam said. “People are stagnant. Muslims were here for years. If we live here, we have to make an effort to make it better...
...current Iraqi situation to that of Afghanistan in the 1990s: “For ten years, Afghanistan was like [Iraq] but we did not do anything. There would not have been the consent to do anything. Even when they killed those people in the Embassy in Dar es Salaam and there was terror around the world, there was not the sense of urgency that we had to deal with it—but it may have been better to have had the foresight to deal with it then...