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...real solution would be not boycotting products but producing them in the first place. Just imagine if Pakistan were supplying medicines to Scandinavian countries and could withhold the supplies in protest. Muslims must become independent of Europe by making themselves strong enough economically and technically. Noor Uddin Islamabad The violent protests in Muslim countries are not the correct way to oppose caricatures of the Holy Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper. Offended Muslims should have written letters to newspaper editors and published articles on the life and teachings of Muhammad. We need a peaceful literary offensive to spread...
...overwhelmed the film’s slow dramatization. Tsotsi’s often awkward interactions with the kidnapped baby parallel his painstaking personal development, as he reflects on aspects of his own difficult childhood. Chweneyagae’s features show no sense of tenderness during the rather violent opening sequence, but with his gradual growth of affection for the baby, his young face animatedly begins to embrace the necessity of his own bottled emotions. Hood does a superb job of setting the scene, using color and music befitting to each of the film?...
...whims of political fashion. Instead, the A-bomb term “anti-Semitism” was dropped catachrestically, occluding all other arguments, embittering and insulting colleagues and—most importantly—neutering the meaning of anti-Semitism so that it works not as the name for violent racial bigotry, but as an unsuccessful attempt to embarrass critics into silence. Like the boy who cried wolf, those who recklessly toss around and redefine terms like anti-Semitism should be held responsible for destroying, through willful catachresis, the use-value of a powerful word of warning. Evidently lacking many...
...Here for a Pimp” and performances like Halle Berry’s in “Monster’s Ball” were produced and released for public consumption in the first place. After all, if rappers were responsible enough not to celebrate misogynistic and violent behavior in their songs, and black actors and producers had enough foresight to think twice about the harmful images of black people that they advance through film, the Academy could not glorify them with awards. Until these changes are made, the unfortunate reality is that the entire black race will continue...
...into pressure cookers and fitted with a timer-exploded within minutes of each other at a temple and a train station in Varanasi, the greatest of all Hindu pilgrimage centers on the Ganges in northern India. Police say 21 people were killed and more than 60 injured. Fearing a violent Hindu backlash, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm and put security forces on high alert across the country...