{"id":25468,"date":"2013-08-03T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25468"},"modified":"2013-08-03T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:37:10","slug":"one-eyed-or-suspecting-ali-gharib-might-just-be-the-dajjal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25468","title":{"rendered":"One-eyed: or suspecting Ali Gharib might just be the Dajjal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; always on the lookout for signs of the dajjal &#8212; even in the New York Times ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, WTF?  <\/p>\n<p><em>Are you Presbyterian?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Headlights.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Headlights.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Headlights\" width=\"606\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Headlights.png 606w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Headlights-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I probably wouldn&#8217;t have take much notice of Ali Gharib&#8217;s tweet (upper panel, above) if I hadn&#8217;t just wandered off after reading a tweet from Habib Zahori:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Kabul&amp;src=hash\">#Kabul<\/a>: Driver: People only talk about Qeyamat, judgment day, we live every second of our lives in Qeyamat.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Habib Zahori (@habibzahori) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/habibzahori\/statuses\/363579345027080192\">August 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>to find out who he was, and run across his NYT piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/atwar.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/11\/the-insidious-language-of-war\/\">The Insidious Language of War<\/a>, which looked interesting enough that I read it &#8212; leading me to the headlights quote (lower panel, above).<\/p>\n<p>Okay, two one-eyed remarks in five minutes got me thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>But as you may know, by now my mind is fully stocked with what <strong>Coleridge<\/strong> in his <em>Biographia Literaria<\/em> calls the &#8220;hooks and eyes of memory&#8221; &#8212; so a broken headlight in Kabul and mention of the Mullah&#8217;s missing eye brought me naturally to the celebrated image of Mullah Omar (below, upper panel)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Omar-Dajjal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Omar-Dajjal.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Omar Dajjal\" width=\"600\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Omar-Dajjal.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Omar-Dajjal-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and thence (lower panel) to the Dajjal &#8212; Islam&#8217;s version of the Antichrist.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Thus, a sort of <strong>Six degrees of Kevin Bacon<\/strong> game brought me from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/08\/02\/netanyahu-sticks-by-rowhani-mistranslation-in-hawkish-case-against-iran.html\">Daily Beast blogger<\/a> via broken headlights to the Dajjal in three quick hops &#8212; and the result is what one might term a <strong>false positive<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was fun while it lasted &#8212; I just wonder how many times NYPD officers ask drivers &#8220;Are you Amish?&#8221;  Maybe a horse and buggy on Fifth Avenue would somewhat justify so inquisitive an inquiry. <\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ali_Gharib\/status\/363678766406443008\">Ali Gharib<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/atwar.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/11\/the-insidious-language-of-war\/\">Habib Zahori<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/afghanhindsight.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/04\/implications-of-mullah-omars-death-ii\/\">Mullah Omar<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/listing\/2689332168909\">Dajjal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Charles Cameron &#8212; always on the lookout for signs of the dajjal &#8212; even in the New York Times ] . Seriously, WTF? Are you Presbyterian? ** I probably wouldn&#8217;t have take much notice of Ali Gharib&#8217;s tweet (upper panel, above) if I hadn&#8217;t just wandered off after reading a tweet from Habib Zahori: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,627,753,623,139,96,709,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-doublequotes","category-islam","category-mahdist","category-media","category-new-york-times","category-taliban","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468","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=25468"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25515,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions\/25515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}