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 | Aug 5, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of the Temple Mount and Noble Sanctuary, by way of Bamiyan and Timbuktu, the Cordoba Mezquita and Cathedral ] . The Temple Mount / Noble Sanctuary, then and now ** Today as I write this, it is Tisha b’Av — the day on which the...
by John Bugnacki | Jul 21, 2014 | Monitor
With the recent advance of the Sunni-extremist group the Islamic State and the increasing sectarian divisions that are cleaving apart the Islamic world, it is more important than ever to understand the differences and similarities between distinct Muslim groups,...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — life not quite as subtle as art, but echoing it nevertheless ] . Poignant photo of refugees sleeping in Samarra's Askariya mosque — credit Bryan Denton for the NYT ** Alissa Rubin, writing in yesterday’s NYT under the...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 7, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — art, but can you bank on it? ] . Sacagawea is for sure my favorite of the women hijabbed to the hilt in artist Stephen Barnwell‘s renderings of Islamic banknotes, US — it’s those two feathers of hers… The other two...
