{"id":16695,"date":"2012-11-08T03:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T03:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16695"},"modified":"2012-11-08T03:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T03:47:15","slug":"graphical-footnotes-1-iwo-jima-and-the-muj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16695","title":{"rendered":"Graphical footnotes, 1: Iwo Jima and the Muj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; another insight into mujahideen ethos via their graphics, this time from their Soviet era campaign ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>First, a current graphic which I&#8217;ve already shown you in a recent post on jihadist imagery &#8212; then a version of the same visual idea from earlier days:<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_16701\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SPECS-Muj-Iwo-Jima.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16701\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SPECS-Muj-Iwo-Jima.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPECS Muj Iwo Jima\" width=\"434\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SPECS-Muj-Iwo-Jima.png 434w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SPECS-Muj-Iwo-Jima-155x300.png 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credits: above, Ibn Siqilli, below, Mathew Trevithick for Foreign Policy<\/p><\/div>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ibn Siqilli<\/strong>&#8216;s image is contemporary, <strong>Trevithick<\/strong>&#8216;s is drawn from his fascinating series of images titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/26\/mujhaideen_not_so_funny_papers#1\">The Not-So-Funny Papers<\/a>, which I missed myself when it first came out, and warmly recommend.  The legend the flag in Trevithick&#8217;s piece carries is &#8220;Jihad&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This post is intended as a footnote to my earlier post, <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=14035\">Iwo Jihad?<\/a> &#8212; the muj have clearly been at this business of graphical borrowing for a while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; another insight into mujahideen ethos via their graphics, this time from their Soviet era campaign ] . First, a current graphic which I&#8217;ve already shown you in a recent post on jihadist imagery &#8212; then a version of the same visual idea from earlier days: . Ibn Siqilli&#8216;s image is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,730,526,644,842,473,436,687,709,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asymmetric","category-charles-cameron","category-graphical-thinking","category-ibn-siqilli","category-propaganda","category-psychology","category-specs","category-taliban","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16695"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16728,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695\/revisions\/16728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}