Talk:M. Shahid Alam

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Alam is well know to the radical left community..

• So he IS well known. Well their you have it, from the horse's mouth.

[edit] deletion

I don't see any reason this person should be included in the wikipedia. He seems to be a very unknown economic professor who has contributed some minor articles to some leftist magazines.

• He's widely published, even in major papers like Asia Times, Outlook India, and Al-Ahram (all three have subscribers in the tens or hundreds of thousands, the last one in the millions). You may not like his political views, but then again, this isn't Stalinist Russia, where you can silence people you disagree with.

The article should stay.

Change the sentence structure and made the language more objective.

[edit] deletion of "Harsh Criticism" comment

I have deleted the sentence dealing with criticism of Alam because it has no sources or links to back it up. I'm sure that Alam has a lot of people who criticize him for his views, but these criticisms should be sourced and verified. I'm not adverse to including these criticisms, I just think including a very out of place sentence in the article like it has now reaks of POV pushing. annoynmous 8:59, 24 February (UTC)