The response was so strong that Mr. Hamid, 36, with only one previous novel, sold close to 100,000 copies of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," enough to propel the book, a work of more literary tone than popular flavor, onto the New York Times best-seller list last spring.
The threat of a fundamentalist backlash remains real enough, despite mass arrests of militants and extremists.
Today he is behind bars and, as the country inches toward this year's regional elections, the same tactics are being used again this time against Muslim elected officials in other cities and provinces who are seen as not being Muslim enough for fundamentalists.
First, I'm worried that NALT Christians are too focused on saying what they aren't (anti-gay, anti-equality, anti-fundamentalist) and not focused enough on saying what they are, which is people who believe God's love is so broad and welcoming that it includes all people (including those who are "like that").
But his career path has been a meandering one, which took him, oddly enough, deep into fundamentalist Christianity, a movement that fiercely opposes the work he does today.
And the villains are, shockingly enough, Islamic radical fundamentalists".
The killings at Charlie Hebdo are a deeply unwelcome reminder to the west that for some, mainly young radicalised men, their fundamentalist interpretation of their religion matters enough to kill those who offend it.
Fair enough, today's Protestant fundamentalists are a little like Oliver Cromwell's Ironsides ("who knew more about the geography of the Holy Land than about the English terrain two counties away").
He felt threatened enough by the rise of fundamentalist Islamic groups that he discussed his desire to "trick" the public, into thinking that his government, too, endorsed Islamic values.
The message of these writers seems to be that if fundamentalist students and IDCs can be exposed enough to evolutionary theory (without insisting that they accept it), they will eventually come around to accepting evolution.
The nationalist and Hindu fundamentalist BJP party is likely to muster enough seats to form a coalition government with Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister.
