
The Guardian, Terrible poet, laughable terrorist:
“Kamoze Ini’s Lyrical Gangster ditty kept popping in to my head last week every time Samina Malik, the “lyrical terrorist“, flashed by on a news bulletin. To be honest both the Lyrical Gangster and the lyrical terrorist have about as much to do with poetry or terrorism as each other - which is next to nothing.”
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“What had she done? Well, she downloaded various documents from terrorist websites including weapons manuals and The Mujaheddin Poisoner’s Handbook, niftily designed with a skull and crossbones on the cover (I’m still not sure if this is a spoof). Compounding all of this, Malik went all Web 2.0 and posted poems - terrible, terrible poems - on various websites. That’s about the extent of her terrorist activity. But never fear. The judge and prosecutors went the extra mile to give her a notoriety that her very, very bad poetry and infantile fantasies about being a terrorist really don’t warrant.”





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Rus Bowden // Nov 18, 2007 at 7:38 pm
On Clattery MacHinery on Poetry, there is a call for poetic license, for freedom:
World Samina Malik Day December 6th
http://clatterymachinery.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/world-samina-malik-day-december-6th
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free samina malik // Nov 20, 2007 at 2:57 am
Join the campaing
http://freesaminamalik.blogspot.com/
http://www.petitiononline.com/poetess/petition.html