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Arundhati Roy is a writer, novelist and political activist from [[India]]. She has a Syrian Malabar Nasrani (Nazarean) Christian heritage.  She won the [[Booker Prize]] in 1997 for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things.''

'''Arundhati Roy''' is a writer, novelist and political activist from [[India]]. She has a Syrian [[Malabar Christians|Malabar]] Nasrani (Nazarean) Christian heritage.  She won the [[Booker Prize]] in 1997 for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things.''

She is known for her leftist politics, having written strident criticisms of American and Israeli foreign policy.  She has recently expressed enthusiastic support for Islamic terrorist Mohammad Afzal, who was part of a brutal terrorist attack on the Parliament of India, and who presently stands ready to be hanged for his actions. Roy has evoked numerous Indophobic canards in her support for terrorists (India is among the most heavily targeted countries by Islamic terrorist groups), as evidenced by her diatribes in the English newspaper ''The Guardian'' <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1972788,00.html India's shame], Arundhati Roy, ''The Guardian'', December 15, 2006. </ref>  Her polemics have earned her significant criticisms from conservative groups in India[http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1830995,0008.htm] and in the United States[http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020429&s=buruma042902].

She is known for her leftist politics, having written strident criticisms of American and Israeli foreign policy.  She has recently expressed enthusiastic support for Islamic terrorist Mohammad Afzal, who was part of a brutal terrorist attack on the Parliament of India, and who presently stands ready to be hanged for his actions. Roy has evoked numerous Indophobic canards in her support for terrorists (India is among the most heavily targeted countries by Islamic terrorist groups), as evidenced by her diatribes in the English newspaper ''The Guardian'' <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1972788,00.html India's shame], Arundhati Roy, ''The Guardian'', December 15, 2006.</ref>  Her polemics have earned her significant criticisms from conservative groups in India<ref>[http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1830995,0008.htm]</ref> and in the United States.<ref>[http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020429&s=buruma042902]</ref>

Her politics are known to lean towards an extremist left viewpoint ie extremely anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-India,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060426114311/http://www.house.gov/ed_workforce/hearings/108th/sed/titlevi61903/kurtz.htm Statement of Stanley Kurtz, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Select Education], Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, June 19, 2003. </ref> anti-Hindu and borderline anti-Christian. Her screeds against conservative political movements in the United States and India and her numerous eulogies to Islamic [[terrorist]]s betray her far-left biases.[http://www.outlookindia.com/scriptur11w2.asp?act=sign&url=/full.asp?fodname=20020527&fname=Column+Balbir+%28F%29&sid=1]

Her politics are known to lean towards an extremist left viewpoint i.e. extremely anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-India,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060426114311/http://www.house.gov/ed_workforce/hearings/108th/sed/titlevi61903/kurtz.htm Statement of Stanley Kurtz, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Select Education], Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, June 19, 2003.</ref> anti-Hindu and borderline anti-Christian. Her screeds against conservative political movements in the United States and India and her numerous eulogies to Islamic [[terrorist]]s betray her [[far-left]] biases.[http://www.outlookindia.com/scriptur11w2.asp?act=sign&url=/full.asp?fodname=20020527&fname=Column+Balbir+(F)&sid=1]

Roy bolsters the propaganda disseminated by numerous Islamist groups and makes paranoid conspiracist allegations against India in Afzal's favor. Her polemics against the United States and India stand widely criticized despite her immense popularity among [[extremism|extreme]] [[leftist]], liberal and radical Islamist circles.

Roy bolsters the propaganda disseminated by numerous Islamist groups and makes paranoid conspiracist allegations against India in Afzal's favor. Her polemics against the United States and India stand widely criticized despite her immense popularity among [[extremism|extreme]] [[leftist]], liberal and radical Islamist circles.

:''Each prisoner tortured in Abu Ghraib was our [[comrade]]''.<ref>[http://nobsnews.blogspot.com/2004/08/arundhati-roy-transcript.html Transcript of Arundhati Roy] Speaking to American Sociological Association, from ''Democracy Now''</ref>

:''Each prisoner tortured in Abu Ghraib was our [[comrade]]''.<ref>[http://nobsnews.blogspot.com/2004/08/arundhati-roy-transcript.html Transcript of Arundhati Roy] Speaking to American Sociological Association, from ''Democracy Now''</ref>

She has also said that the Islamic terrorists led by Mohammad Atta who perpetrated the September 11 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York are "heroes".

She has also said that the Islamic terrorists led by Mohammad Atta who perpetrated the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York are "heroes".

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[[Category:Liberal activists]]

[[Category:Liberal Activists]]

[[Category:Anti-war movement]]

[[Category:Anti-war Movements]]

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