by Charles Cameron | Jan 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — slightly tongue-in-cheek, intrigued at a rhetorical level, not sure who here, if anyone, necessarily believes the words they speak ] . Okay, let’s see now. In December 2009, Israeli PM Netanyahu said, “You don’t want a messianic...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 5, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on end-times rhetoric and having no need of sun or moon ] . Detail from a Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liebana ** On the whole, the “signs of the end times” described in the installment of Maulana Asim Umar‘s...
by Charles Cameron | May 19, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — bemused again, “jihad” (the word) in the news, “big data” too, plus Google expecting Mahdi ] . I suppose I should be glad — or should I? — that the word jihad is now in the news. It’s about time....
by Charles Cameron | May 18, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — not good branding, not Islamic, dumbstruck? — not a whole lot else to say ] . Commander Abu Sakkar / the Farouq Brigades logo Let’s take the bald facts first: Commander Abu Sakkar of the Farouq Brigades, Free Syrian Army, had...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 25, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — if we omit all mention of the Qur’an, will the jihad perhaps disappear, you think? ] . On Friday, Oct. 29, 2004, just before the 2004 US Presidential Election, a videotaped speech by Osama bin Laden was released online and variously...
