by Charles Cameron | Feb 6, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a bullet train of thought re Daesh from the New Yorker ] . Kenji Goto, friend of Syrians ** George Packer, in Why ISIS Murdered Kenji Goto a couple of days ago, connects a longer distance between ideas faster than the bullet train from...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — part 1 of a series I’ve been working on for almost two week, that keeps morphing and growing as new news comes in ] . For a visceral take on Daesh / IS, ICYMI, there’s the PBS Frontline special The Rise of ISIS, highly...
by editor | Oct 28, 2014 | COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Narrative
CSC has released a new white paper entitled De-Romanticizing the Islamic State’s Vision of the Caliphate. The Executive Summary is below, and you can download the full PDF here. Executive Summary Calls for restoration of the Caliphate are a regular feature of...
by editor | Oct 27, 2014 | White Papers
by R. Bennett Furlow, Kristin Fleischer and Steven R. Corman Calls for restoration of the Caliphate are a regular feature of Islamist extremist communication, most recently and notably that of the Islamic State (IS) who in mid-2014 declared a new Caliphate and named...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — not sure of the original provenance, but the content speaks for itself ] . Infographie jihadiste pour dire que les frères musulmans ont eu tort de croire en la démocratie en rejetant le jihad pic.twitter.com/XNQY6igDct — David...