Wednesday, July 05, 2006

The Times of London is the REAL DEAL !

Pity our paper of the same name....while the NYT regards our own govt as more dangerous then the killers of the Islamic KKK, the Times of London serves the greater good.

Sunday Times reporter Ali Hussain spent six weeks in Beeston, where three of the 7/7 bombers came from. He found an enclosed community, rife with conspiracy theories

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The rich smell of Indian spices wafted along the road. Voices babbled in Urdu and Sylheti, a Bangladeshi dialect that my own family speak. Thick-bearded men in robes strolled the streets and youngsters wore their jeans rolled above the ankle after leaving the mosque, as Muslim custom requires.

I felt both at home and in a foreign land. This could almost be an Asian city, I thought, rather than Beeston, the suburb of Leeds where two of the July 7 bombers had lived.

I had come to gauge the mood of the community after the 7/7 attacks, which struck London a year ago this week. The world I knew as a British Muslim sprang from cosmopolitan roots, and I wanted to discover what the people of this more insular community really felt about the bombers and western culture.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hello

i would like to point out that the map in your post is of the wrong location. it is beeston in nottinghamshire not the place of the same name near leeds.

Epaminondas said...

Thanks,,,,sorry for the ignorance