Center for Strategic Communication

200 lashes for a Saudi rape victim???

[ by Charles Cameron — how a half-baked, re-raked tale from 2007, now showing on my local Facebook, gets things all wrong ] . Let’s set the record straight. It seems that Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times did the amplification in this case. He...

On eating one’s enemy

[ by Charles Cameron — not good branding, not Islamic, dumbstruck? — not a whole lot else to say ] . Commander Abu Sakkar / the Farouq Brigades logo Let’s take the bald facts first: Commander Abu Sakkar of the Farouq Brigades, Free Syrian Army, had...

Hysteria about Afghan schoolgirl hysteria

[ by Charles Cameron — Reuters publishes scary stuff, should have checked their facts with WHO epidemiologists first ] . Last time, it was the Jerusalem syndrome — this time it’s mass hysteria, not poison. The Reuters article, Afghan girls’...