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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 Nikolas Cruz ? On November 29 of last year   Nikolas Cruz  called 911  himself  in Palm Beach County to report that someone "attacked me and said they were going to gut me."
In a 5 ½ minute call   Cruz  say  "I kind of got made and I started punching walls and stuff and then a kid came at me and threw me on the ground  and he started attacking me and kicked me out of the house."
In another call  a woman  whose name was redacted  describes an altercation between her adult son and Cruz. She also said she's worried that  Cruz  is going to get a gun  "because that's all he wants is his gun  and that's all he cares about is his gun."
The Miami Herald and other news organizations identify the caller as 42-year-old Roxanne Deschamps  who had taken in  Cruz  and his younger brother  Zachary  after their mother died earlier that month.
Meanwhile  the Broward Sheriff's office released  records dating back 10 years documenting contacts it had with Nikolas Cruz  the 19-year-old suspect .  The records released  are logs of 23 separate 911 calls  including 15 calls made by  his  now-deceased mother   Linda Cruz   reporting disputes and disturbances involving  Cruz  between November 2008 and June 2014. Several other calls were made by third parties beginning in February 2016 through November 2017.
"Third hand information from the neighbor's son that  Nikolas Cruz  planned to shoot up the school on Instagram (Picture of Juvenile with guns.) One month time delay. Unknown high school.  Cruz  lives in area."
The log says that the deputy made contact with the anonymous caller. Upon learning that  Cruz  possessed knives and a BB gun  that information was "forwarded to Stoneman Douglas School Resource Officer."
"Caller advised subject Nikolas Cruz is collecting guns and knives.  Cruz  wants to join the Army. Concerned  he  will kill  himself  one day and believes  he  could be a school shooter in the making. Caller advised  Cruz  was no longer living at the listed parkland address and is now living Lake Worth  FL. Believes the weapons are kept at a friend's house at an unknown location."

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kim Jong Un ? WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with North Korean officials  including leader Kim Jong Unâs sister  while in South Korea for the Winter Olympics this month but the North Koreans canceled at the last minute  U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
Pence was going to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Unâs younger sister  Kim Yo Jong  and the nominal head of state  Kim Yong Nam  but the North Koreans called off the Feb. 10 meeting two hours before it was set to start  a U.S. official said  confirming a story first reported by the Washington Post.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence  North Korea's nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam  and  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister Kim Yo Jong  attend the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang  South Korea February 9  2018. Yonhap via REUTERS
âThis administration will stand in the way of  Kim âs desire to whitewash their murderous regime with nice photo ops at the Olympics. Perhaps thatâs why they walked away from a meeting or perhaps they were never sincere about sitting down â Ayers said in the statement.
 Kim Jong Un   through  his sister   invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang to begin talks âsoon.â

SOLUTION:
Neutral