by Charles Cameron | Apr 22, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an attempt to make it clear how complex the various religious affiliations in the Yemeni conflict are ] . My latest piece for LapidoMedia, briefing journalists on religious aspects of contemporary news, is now posted there under a slightly...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 11, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the role of iconography vs idolatry within Islam and Christianity ] . Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace tweeted an image of Muhammad today: Images of the prophet Mohammed weren't always taboo. This 16th...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 9, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — as their respective flags testify, both Sunni and Shia benefit from our involuntary largesse ] . We're selling 175 new Abrams tanks to Iraq to replenish for their losses to daesh. http://t.co/clPMWdAIQP pic.twitter.com/sJpkPcirtI...
by zen | Dec 30, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] A Facebook friend with an astute comment pointed me toward this Wall Street Journal article by Joe Rago on the mission of General John Allen, USMC as “Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — as one headline put it, 20 Million Shia Muslims Brave Isis by Making Pilgrimage to Karbala ] . You may remember IS / Daesh bulldozing the berm separating Syria and Iraq (upper image, below) not so long ago: Putting that into perspective is...