by zen | Aug 6, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] John Robb had a cool post on the ultra-radical takfiri insurgency ISIS/ISIL and their self-proclaimed Sunni “Caliphate“, the Islamic State, whom he gave as an example of “the cockroaches of war”:...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — introducing Theodore, Son of Shoebat ] . I do rather like Ted / Theodore Shoebat‘s Crusading Christian header image, I must admit: And see that Lady in the banner, top right? That’s the Blessed Virgin Mary. We shall return to...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — nightmare of the cartographers ] . Let Yassin Musharbash have the first word: The #ISIS Narrative of eliminating the Sykes-Pikot-Borders? You have to admit: Good choice of a narrative. Resonates with many. #Mosul — yassin musharbash...
by Charles Cameron | May 30, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a minor incongruity? — Breivik and Wallander ] . ** This is a quick (I wish) note about something that caught my eye — a character in the British (Kenneth Branagh) version of Wallander is decribed as a “cultural...
by Charles Cameron | May 20, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the destruction by ISIS of the shrine of a remarkable Muslim saint, to be followed by a glimpse of the man himself ] . First, the destruction of the shrine of Uways in Raqqa: Before: I am not sure when the picture was taken, but it was...