by Charles Cameron | Jul 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an old Jihadica post revisited ] . In a 27th June 2008 post on Jihadica, Will McCants reported that one al-Fata al-Jurani had argued on the Eklaas fourm that “the Mahdi will not appear until a caliph once again rules Muslims. After...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 28, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a small devotional exercise for our sometimes too-secular world ] . In the upper image of the pair above, a crowd in Raqqa, Syria, is protesting the desecration of a church by Islamist enthusiasts who had pulled down the cross atop a...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 17, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — burial flags, shrouds on the unknown, and the black banner seen from a new angle ] . I feel grief. ** We are, by now, all too well aware of the cost of war in lives. Sometimes those lives are of unknown souls, perhaps belligerents, perhaps...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 25, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — product from a neat, brief convo with Ibn Siqilli aka Chris Anzalone ] . I found the upper image in the same Visual References post from Chris Anzalone that I recommended recently in two comments here [figs 2, 3, 3B] and here. If you look...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 9, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — don’t let’s go overboard, eh? ] . I’d like to note up front that Liz Sly was talking about a pro-Morsi rally, and Leah very possibly about an anti-Morsi event… In any case, these two tweets between them remind me...
