by Charles Cameron | Nov 6, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a new angle on the “fatwa” approach to defeating IS / Daesh? ] . ** The Sudanese journalist Nesrine Malik, writing on the Huffington Post under the title The Futility of Fatwas, has some ideas worth considering. I’m by no...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 6, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — I’m in Caliornia at present, and thus without access to either of these possibilities — plus — in praise of Karl Sharro ] . Heaven, so to speak? I found heaven, this is the perfect combination, an English pub with...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — coded signalling, or “a nod is as good as a wink” ] . ** Maajid Nawaz‘s An Ex-Radical’s Open Letter to ISIS Fighters: Quit Now While You Can! just published by The Daily Beast gives us an invaluable insight into the...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which the muj from Khorasan talk even more about the erasing of national boundaries than the soldiers of the IS caliphate ] . Before there were maps, there was terrain, some of it populated, and various populations spoke various...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — at least three ways of looking at a pair of tweets ] . If there can be Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, there are at least three or four ways of looking at these two tweets: The similarities are eerie, the differences are enormous....
