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PROBLEM: Hellbound Glory's Leroy Virgil  isn't afraid to explore the lows to which desperate people will sink. In fact  it's kind of the Reno  Nevada native's forte. As far as lows go  robbing a strip club would seem to rank pretty high on the list  and that's just what  Virgil  does in the new video for the band's grungy country rocker  "Hellbound Blues."
Related How  a Yearlong Bender Shaped Hellbound Glory's New Album 'Pinball' No-bullshit singer-lyricist Leroy Virgil  opens up about the implosion and rebirth of  his  scuzzy country-rock band
"Cocaine  Kurt Cobain  I've been blowing up my fucking brains " goes the opening line of "Hellbound Blues " a line that proves prophetic in the video  which was directed by Bob Wayne.  Virgil  and a female love interest show up to rob a strip club in the middle of the day  and hit an unexpected jackpot upon emptying the cash registers: a small mountain of cocaine. The two celebrate by snorting the haul back at their place  but the party quickly nosedives as  Virgil 's partner overdoses and  he  commits suicide with the shotgun that  he  just used in the robbery. In typical Hellbound Glory fashion  no grisly detail gets spared.
The video's lurid  violent subject matter already seems to have angered some of the band's fans  prompting a video response from  Virgil . "I understand. I get it. I feel you on that "  he  says. "I don't really like it that much either because I guess I just prefer comedy over drama but I think that Shooter [Jennings] and Bob [Wayne] both did a really good job on it  making it and creating it."

SOLUTION: Hellbound Glory's 'Hellbound Blues': See Video

PROBLEM: New England Patriots linebacker James Harrison  is getting pushback for posting a photo of an âassault weaponâ on Instagram.
As a Pittsburgh Steeler   Harrison  expressed  his  enthusiasm for guns by posing for Menâs Journal with a revolver in one hand and a pistol in the other.
Now   his  photographs have moved to more politically-charged weapons. The âassault weaponâ photo  he  posted to Instagram is an AK-47 emblazoned with  his  jersey number  92.
That new Deebo Dracoð¯ð¥ A post shared by  James Harrison  (@jhharrison92) on Jan 16  2018 at 12:06pm PST
 Harrison  received thousands of likes on  the photo   but some Instragram followers took exception. One asked  âThis is the musket the founders in mind right? SMH.â Another wrote  âHow do I unfollow?â

SOLUTION: Patriots Linebacker Faces Pushback for Posting Photo of 'Assault Weapon' on Instagram

PROBLEM: 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:
Novelist Kamila Shamsie Talks About Radicalization Citizenship and the Link Between Violence and Masculinity