[ by Charles Cameron -- with an assist from Wm Benzon, under-appreciated and brilliant film and literary critic, musician, author of Beethoven's Anvil ] . Screen-time is valuable: movie directors don’t just throw it away. Here are screen-grabs of two moments in Greg Barker‘s HBO bin Laden documentary, Manhunt, offered for your consideration: and: ** [...] Read more »
Manhunt: Radicalization, & comprehending the full impact of dreams
[ by Charles Cameron -- how do you intercept messages that come via dreams? I'm thinking of al-Balawi ] . My little graphic (below) may be kidding — but what of reality? ** In the bin Laden documentary, Manhunt, which I mentioned before seeing it here, and discussed briefly here, another passage (at 1.22.31) that [...] Read more »
Disrespect of the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina in Azan #2?
[ by Charles Cameron -- the second holiest site in Islam disrespected by the editors of Azan? ] . I’ve taken out the surrounding matter, but here’s the section on “decorated mosques” as a sign of the time of the Dajjal or Islamic antichrist, from Maulana Asim Umar‘s Third World War and Dajjal in the [...] Read more »
Apocalyptic Fire in Azan #2
[ by Charles Cameron -- on end-times rhetoric and having no need of sun or moon ] . ** On the whole, the “signs of the end times” described in the installment of Maulana Asim Umar‘s Third World War and Dajjal, pp. 23-31, and now posted in the second issue of Azan on pp 83-89 [...] Read more »
How to win souls and be worthy of emulation?
[ by Charles Cameron -- considering a rare attribute in two religious leaders ] . ** Christopher Anzalone tells a story about the Grand Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr (above, left), Moqtada‘s father, in his highly recommended podcast on Jihad & Martyrdom in Contemporary Muslim Militants with Karl Morand. I’m very slow at transcription, but this story [...] Read more »
Every day is Ashura, every place is Kerbala
[ by Charles Cameron -- an Ayatollah's video take-down of the Grand Mufti ] . Today’s latest news from the Long War Journal is titled Egyptian jihadists call for attacks in Shiite countries and opens with the paragraph: Twenty Egyptian jihadists have issued a statement calling upon Sunnis to launch attacks in Shiite-led countries in [...] Read more »
Love, Death, and Jihad by Pen and Sword
[ by Charles Cameron -- with Wagner and Abu Dujana as examples, the cognitive sting here is in the tail -- the power of a double image to engage both emotion and insight ] . Love and death. ** The human mind thinks in parallelisms and oppositions. My lords, if you would hear a high [...] Read more »
It’s a weird, wild world
[ by Charles Cameron -- Omar Bakri Muhammad, al-Muhajiroun, Tom Jones and The Hour -- also: hot-wiring the apocalypse, I think not ] . As we all know by now, it turns out that the primary Woolwich suspects were associated with al-Muhajiroun. Accordingly, a couple of days ago I watched John Ronson‘s recently reposted documentary [...] Read more »
Hezbollah and related graphics
[ by Charles Cameron -- insights into symbolism on both sides of the Syrian conflict, including Nasrallah as Dajjal and Pinocchio, Star Trek darkness, more ] . I thought it might be instructive to compare the Hezbollah flag: with a couple of variants seen recently: The version on the left is captioned Syrian opposition activists [...] Read more »
Some good news aka gospel
[ by Charles Cameron -- the Greek word for gospel, euangelion, literally means good news -- these news items from the last month or so are good ] . Sources: Times of Israel, Hard to deny a Holocaust your father saved Jews from Ha’Aretz, In one hard-knock British city, a secret Muslim donor helps save [...] Read more »