by Charles Cameron | May 10, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an astute PR move, i think — but still a slaughter of captives ] . It’s usually the men in balack (IS) who execute the men in orange (Copts) — upper panel, below — but this time there has been a reversal of the...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 19, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — “The now defunct Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University (1996-2003) brings to the public one final conference on apocalyptic beliefs” ] . If this was a movie, I’d say the speakers at this conference were a...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 29, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a highly recommended article on an often overlooked topic ] . ** Amb. Husain Haqqani has a new piece up on the Hudson Institute site, Prophecy & the Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent, which deals with the Ghazwa-e-Hind. I have quoted...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 21, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the role of promise and illusion in recruitment, disappointment and disillusion in CVE ] . Here’s an example of promise and disillusionment from the early Afghan jihad: upper quote below from Abdullah Azzam, lower quote from Mustafa...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 17, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how sky differs from heaven, and what that means for morale and jihad ] . ** Okay, that Spartans / Battle of Badr DoubleQuote above is just a teaser, locating us in the general zone of morale.. What I’d really like to offer you here...
