by Charles Cameron | Sep 3, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — some light refreshment after dark sides and devilish walks ] . ** Sources: Sohrab Sepehri, Poetic Voices of the Muslim World Wallace Black Elk, The Greenfield Review, vol 9, double issue 3 & 4 with thanks to Joseph Bruchac &...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — as one headline put it, 20 Million Shia Muslims Brave Isis by Making Pilgrimage to Karbala ] . You may remember IS / Daesh bulldozing the berm separating Syria and Iraq (upper image, below) not so long ago: Putting that into perspective is...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — taking a hint from the twitter stream of HSM Press and running with it ] Update: As of Monday morning 11am California time: I now think it’s clear that the twitter stream I was commenting on in this post and the second in the series...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a DoubleQuote in two tweets on the importance of religious knowledge in due season ] . From about a month ago: Iraqi #ISIS stop three #Alawite truck drivers; ask them how many time they kneel for prayer. Wrong answ. Are executed...