{"id":22492,"date":"2013-05-20T01:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T01:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=22492"},"modified":"2013-05-20T01:59:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T01:59:05","slug":"jottings-9-boko-beaucoup-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=22492","title":{"rendered":"Jottings 9: Boko \/ Beaucoup Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; who just can&#8217;t resist a skilled bilingual pun, and is also curious these days about terrorist logos &#038; branding ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_22504\" style=\"width: 662px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hamas-Boko-Haram-logos-compared.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22504\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hamas-Boko-Haram-logos-compared.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hamas &amp; Boko Haram logos compared\" width=\"652\" height=\"357\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hamas-Boko-Haram-logos-compared.png 652w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hamas-Boko-Haram-logos-compared-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hamas logo, left, and putative Boko Haram logo, right, compared<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n**<\/p>\n<p>I found my delicious multilingual pun in a comment from April 2012 on an <em>RFI<\/em> post titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/afrique\/20120410-mali-bamako-gao-tombouctou-boko-haram-ansar-dine\">Boko Haram en renfort des islamistes arm\u00e9s dans le nord du Mali<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ces voyous la je les app\u00e8lerai plut\u00f4t bokou haram! Lisez \u00e7a beaucoup haram. &#8230;  Ce qu&#8217;ils font peut juste \u00eatre qualifi\u00e9 de beaucoup haram.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>BTW, does Boko Haram really use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idfblog.com\/hamas\/2012\/01\/21\/hamas-history-ideology\/hamas-logo\/\">Hamas logo<\/a> with its own name clumsily cut&#8217;n&#8217;pasted across the top, as illustrated above and suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/247nigerianewsupdate.com\/be-cautious-of-boko-harams-ceasefire-announcement-army-chief-warns-fg\/\">here<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; who just can&#8217;t resist a skilled bilingual pun, and is also curious these days about terrorist logos &#038; branding ] . ** I found my delicious multilingual pun in a comment from April 2012 on an RFI post titled Boko Haram en renfort des islamistes arm\u00e9s dans le nord du [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,915,526,470,675,211,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-brand","category-charles-cameron","category-foreign-language","category-hamas","category-terrorism","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22492","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=22492"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22513,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22492\/revisions\/22513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}