by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Feb 28, 2012 | Monitor
Unity and Disunity With the passing of years, I became more aware of the urgent need for unity in the Islamic action and of the fact that it is incumbent upon the mujahidin who are bounded by a pure creed to join ranks, to be more flexible in dealing with other...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jan 21, 2012 | Monitor
I'll be referring back to this passage in my next post on the 2d edition of Zawahiri's 2d spiritual autobiography, Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet: Ultimately, for Al-Muqrin, the strategic goal of any just war has to be an eschatological and ethereal...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jan 7, 2012 | Monitor
Zawahiri's Enemies, Friends and Family Note (January 8): Thanks to Mr. Orange for pointing out the incongruity noted in the first quote. My guess is this was a translator's error. In the second edition of his spiritual autobiography, Knights Under the Banner...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jan 2, 2012 | Monitor
A Study of Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (2d ed) The Dagestan Bookend “In this way we started our trip of moving among countries.” Zawahiri’s Dagestani interlude in the second edition of Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (Knights2) — his...