Jihad Featured Israel vs Iran: The targets no one is talking about, Part 2 First a brutal Arab Sunni dictator, then a ruthless Arab Shi'a tyrant, followed by a brutal Iranian Shi'a dictator. Diverse, yes, but they had one aim, to destroy Israel with the ultimate weapon, and a common ideology, Islam.
Jihad Featured Salah ad-Din, we are your descendants!* It was a great blow that had killed the passion in those fanatics who still followed him. The Americans put that bag on his head; finally the curtain fell on an era.
Propaganda Featured "I don't know why it’s not obvious to everybody." All of us saw Hamas savages grab a teenager girl from the neck, pushing her into the unknown. That’s your very freedom. That girl represents your freedom. ...I don't know why it’s not obvious to everybody. That the United Nations fail to condemn them.
Jihad Featured Anatomy of a madness, Part 4 I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.