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When I started reading Razeen Sally’s Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island, I thought I would be reading a travelogue, but soon realised that it does not seem correct to call this book simply a travelogue.
It is certainly much more than that. It is an autobiography, a personal memoir, a socio-cultural history, a political critique and a nostalgic journey into past and present Sri Lanka. You can see the landscapes of the island, the flora and fauna, you learn about its history, you meet people of various ethnicities and religions, and you start understanding the current political issues that Sri Lanka faces. After reading the book, one feels almost as if one has lived on this paradisiacal island oneself for decades.
20009. shahzad ride to kill more people with a car bomb in times square. they attack citizens in the name of radical jihad. some are calling homegrown terrorism a myth. they say they are no more likely to commit acts than anyone else. we will talk with cliff may, and sally. are you saying there is no such thing as homegrown islamic terror? i do think that there are people in this country who want to harm us. i think there are violent extremists. i think we all want to make america safe. the yes is how do we go about doing that. to lump all muslims into one violent group and say, you are suspected because you are muslim
anwar al-awlaki was a moderate must, he s not. there should be some looking into which mosques are moderate and which are not. there are people i m afraid like sally who say there is nothing going on here folks, move along, we shouldn t ask these questions. peter king has hearings coming up who denounce the chairman of the homeland committee because he wants to ask questions and do inquiry about the process of radicalization that leads to terrorism in the u.s. within the muslim kphupt. it s very important to understand this. most, the majority of muslims in the u.s. and around the world are not terrorists and don t support terrorism. most of the terrorism since 9/11 has been carried out, this is the important point, not that it s by muslim but it s in the name of islam. that s the fact we have to face. jon: there is so much more to consider on a topic like this.