by Charles Cameron | Feb 18, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on some aspects of religiously motivated suicide, and I’m not clear why I called this one a jotting, since it’s quite long and detailed ] . . I have been taking a couple of online courses on terrorism in recent months, and in...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 27, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a Buddhist instance of the widespread use of sacred texts as offering sanction for religious violence, with Muslims depicted as the enemy on this occasion ] . Three dimensional Kalachakra mandala by Arjia Rinpoche, photo credit...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 23, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which jihadis take on Jews, Christians, Muslims and Buddhists, quite an interfaith haul for hatred ] . Aaron Zelin at Jihadology posted an hour-long video entitled Woolwich Attack a week or so ago, and I found it particularly...
by Lynn C. Rees | Sep 11, 2013 | Monitor
[defrosted by Lynn C. Rees] Eleven years ago, on September 9, 2001, the Web rudely informed me that Ahmed Shah Masood had been assassinated. I was annoyed. I hated the Taliban. To me, they were the enemy of all mankind. My hate didn’t single them out just for...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 2, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — shall we say, not a great enthusiast for war? ] . . This image of Winston Churchill in the bombed out ruins of Coventry Cathedral is almost a self-referential paradox in itself, if you still believe the canard that he knew the Germans were...
