A lesson in terror...

A lesson in terror… Seattle South Asian Film Festival

One of the many interesting films you will find in this year’s Seattle South Asian Film Festival is Hemal Trivedi’s and Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s superb documentary Among the Believers, which is about a struggle between secular Pakistan and extremist Pakistan for the hearts and souls of the young. The filmmakers get very close to the cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi, head of the organization Red Mosque, which wants to establish a society committed to, in their reading, the exact words of the Koran.

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Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...