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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kamila Shamsie ? Kamila Shamsie  didnât have to stretch to fit the plot to the times when  she  decided to adapt the Greek tragedy Antigone into a contemporary novel about terrorism.
The gripping novel explores how western responses to terrorism show the limits of our ideals and laws. In an interview over Skype   Shamsie  told me  her  initial imperative with the novel was to explore the question of citizenship  to delve into what it means to begin stripping people of citizenship for certain crimes.
âRepeatedly people in [Theresa Mayâs] government have said  âcitizenship is a privilege not a right ââ  Shamsie  said. âAnd thatâs simply legally untrue  but increasingly they want to be able to take away citizenship for people who they think are unworthy. And they get to decide.â
 She  added: âItâs your own citizens and youâre saying that for all that we have our judicial system and prison system and probation and all of that  this is the one crime that we donât know how to deal with  so weâre just going to leave you out of the country. It should be seen as a real failing of a state  to say that our judicial system is incapable of knowing how to respond to this criminal act.â
And  as in the United States  the notion of terror is racialized and associated with Muslims (President Trump entertaining the idea of sending Sayfullo Saipov  the man who killed eight people when he drove a truck down a bike path in Manhattan on Halloween  to GuantÃ¡namo  is at this point to be expected.) While stripping citizenship might initially be justified only in terrorism cases   Shamsie  noted Theresa Mayâs attempts to revoke the passports of a group of British-Pakistani men convicted of sex crimes â âthereâs no way of saying itâs not about Islamophobia and racism  because no one is making those suggestions about anyone who is white and committing similar crimes.â
In the narratives that she read of radicalization  of youth attempting to join ISIS   Shamsie  saw only demonization and one-dimensional narratives: â It âs almost an inevitability now. If youâre young  Muslim and male  and angry  then youâre going to strap a bomb onto yourself.â But she dug into research on ISIS propaganda and youth who were convinced by it  and found that the reality  for many teenage would-be fighters  was complex.
âOne of the things I was interested in was the lure being something other than violence  and all the other ways that this world that we know to be nihilistic and brutal could also be seductive â  Shamsie  said.
âThere is this link between masculinity and violence that should be inescapable  it should be part of every conversation on violence â said  Shamsie . âInstead we compartmentalize violence: Thereâs the violence of gun shooters in America  thereâs the violence of suicide bombers in Iraq  thereâs domestic violence everywhere  there are men in Pakistan who are committing honor killings â and we donât draw the line between all of them and say what is it with men  what is it with masculinity  what is it that young men do to prove to themselves or to someone else that they are a man in the right kind of way?â
All of these complexities are missing from most media narratives of radicalization  and so also is the possibility of empathy   Shamsie  believes. In  her  research   she  found little compassion for the families whose children had gone to Syria  âfamilies facing the most horrendous thing â your child or your sibling who is very young or very stupid or angry â has gone to a place from where you know they will probably never return. And these families are treated as though they are guilty  rather than as if they are mourning.â
The novel gave  Shamsie  the space to create that empathy.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jensen Huang ? TAIPEI (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp chief executive Jensen Huang said on Thursday artificial intelligence would enable fully automated cars within 4 years  but sought to tamp down expectations for a surge in demand for its chips from cryptocurrency miners.
FILE PHOTO: Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang attends an event during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei  Taiwan May 30  2017. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
âIt will take no more than 4 years to have fully autonomous cars on the road. How long it takes for the vast majority of cars on the road to become that  it really just depends â  Huang  told media after a company event in Taipei.
But  Huang  joined peers taming expectations of strong revenue growth from a wave of interest in cryptocurrencies. Advanced Micro Devices Inc expected this week that there will be some leveling off of cryptocurrency demand. [nL4N1MZ5RP]
âRevenue for us in crypto is over $100 million a quarter. For us  itâs a small percentage... Itâs obviously not a target market â  Huang  said.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Newt Gingrich ? WASHINGTON   DC â Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA)  spoke to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) on Friday about the danger posed by Iran and accused the U.S. State Department of listening to that dictatorship more than to those who seek a free and democratic Iran.
 Gingrich  said  he  has lobbied for the Iranian resistance movement in the U.S. and the Peopleâs Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) since  he  was the top Republican in the House.
 Gingrich  said:
 Gingrich  acknowledged that Iranians have suffered in exile in Iraq at Camp Liberty and Camp Ashraf where thousands of members and sympathizers of MEK have been living for the past 25 years:
 Gingrich  said  âAnd I hope that this administration will now be part of this process of beginning to unravel both the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and then  ultimately  the dictatorship.â
That unraveling should include the U.S. designating the IRGC a terrorist organization  which would have a direct impact on the Iranian economy  according to  Gingrich .
 Gingrich  said in  his  remarks that the extent of the danger posed by Iran cannot be understated.
âAs long as that dictatorship is in power  as long as itâs able to spend money  as long as it is able to project terrorism around the world  it is ultimately a mortal danger to the United States â  Gingrich  said. âAnd of course  it was a terrible thing for the Iranian people.â
âA dictatorship which  in 1988  killed 30 000 people  something which for some reason The New York Times and The Washington Post donât find to be horrifying â  Gingrich  said.
 Gingrich  detailed the Iranâs aspirations in a chilling laundry list:
 Gingrich  also praised President Donald Trump on  his  decision to decertify the JCPOA nuclear deal  calling it âjust about exactly the right pathâ and said that the presidentâs public remarks about Iran have been bold.
That includes Trumpâs speech to the United Nations  which  Gingrich  said was âprobably the strongest condemnation of Iran  of the Iranian dictatorship  ever uttered in the United Nations.â

SOLUTION:
Neutral