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  thabet 6:06 am on September 4, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: colonialism (29), empire (37), france (71), history (133), world war ii

  Nicolas Sarkozy recently said the following about the liberation of Paris in World War II:

  The liberation of Paris was an example of a country which at a time of great challenges rejects sectarianism and seeks to mobilise all his talents. The liberation of Paris is the dawn of a new era in which nations decide that nothing will be as before, that the world must prevent the repetition of errors and horrors of the past, that the progress of multilateralism and democratic principles are the best guarantees for peace and prosperity.

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  thabet 7:54 am on July 7, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: history (133), Identity (75), united kingdom (732), world war ii, wwii (3)

  Untold story of British Pakistanis’ grandparents’ involvement in World War II ’stirs pride’:

  Taunted by racists as a “Paki” and “terrorist”, Haroon bin Khaled spent his teenaged years feeling rejected by mainstream Britain and increasingly drawn to al Qaeda extremism.

  But the young Muslim of Pakistani descent found an unexpected answer to his alienation the day he heard the story of how Muslim soldiers, many from what is now Pakistan, fought and died alongside Britons against the Nazis in World War Two.

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  Bin Khaled is one of dozens of youths of Pakistani descent in the industrial second city of Birmingham to have attended a workshop by academic Jahan Mahmood that uses the Muslim role in the war to wean young men away from extremism and alienation.

  Jahan Mahmood is a regular on DeenPort and his research paper can be found online (pdf).

  (Via DeenPort. See the thread.)