>>A PALESTINIAN journalist has warned of a Muslim backlash over the failure of Australian authorities to grant him a visa in time to speak at today’s Brisbane Writers Festival.
Abdel Bari-Atwan, a best-selling author and among the last Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, was cancelled as a speaker at the festival yesterday as he waited for his visa application to be processed. <<
Are Palestinians “western?”
I guess they are if they live in the "west." Apparently this guy lives in the UK (well east of me anyway).
I went to Amazon expecting to find something to belittle about this guy but instead wound up adding his book to my shopping list.
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