{"id":26896,"date":"2013-09-04T18:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=26896"},"modified":"2013-09-04T18:01:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:01:49","slug":"aq-branding-isis-cool-for-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=26896","title":{"rendered":"AQ branding, ISIS cool for school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; AQ &#038; Friends have adopted another of our technologies against us &#8212; this time it&#8217;s branding &#8212; what&#8217;s next &#8212; gamification? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-branding.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-branding.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC branding\" width=\"595\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-branding.png 595w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-branding-281x300.png 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajaltamimi\/status\/375215415632211968\"><strong>Aymenn J Al-Tamimi<\/strong> tweeted<\/a> to alert us to the ISIS school bag today, with the comment: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, folks, it&#8217;s real: Islamic State of Iraq &#038; ash-Sham school bag for kids going to ISIS schools in #Syria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This in turn reminded me of the Al-Qaida version of an Adidas logo. &#8212; I don&#8217;t recall who pointed us to the logo image, but <strong>Joshua Hammer<\/strong> talks the same design in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2013\/jul\/11\/new-turn-tunisia\/\">A New Turn in Tunisia?<\/a>&#8212; published in the NYRB this July:<br \/>\nJuly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yassin wore a black T-shirt emblazoned with jihadist imagery: on the front, a map of Syria with a Kalashnikov- carrying fighter from the Jabhat al-Nusra, the radical Islamic rebel group in Syria that has recruited many fighters from Tunisia; on the back, a portrait of Osama bin Laden accompanied by the legend \u201cJihad Is Not a Crime.\u201d A picture of the World Trade Center, with a jet about to strike, adorned his shoulder. It suggested the Adidas logo, but instead of \u201cAdidas,\u201d it read \u201calqa\u00efda.\u201d \u201cThe police threw me in jail for wearing my T-shirt, and held me for four days,\u201d he told me, grinning. \u201cBut they had to let me go, because there is no law against defending my views.\u201d What were those views? \u201cAl-Qaeda represents Islam, and al-Qaeda defends Islam,\u201d he replied. Despite the incendiary messages on his T-shirt, Yassin insisted that he had entered a pacifist phase. \u201cI\u2019m doing dawaa, making people aware of their religious obligations,\u201d he told me. \u201cI\u2019m not killing people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do they buy these things at <strong>Target<\/strong> (TGT)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; AQ &#038; Friends have adopted another of our technologies against us &#8212; this time it&#8217;s branding &#8212; what&#8217;s next &#8212; gamification? ] . Aymenn J Al-Tamimi tweeted to alert us to the ISIS school bag today, with the comment: Yes, folks, it&#8217;s real: Islamic State of Iraq &#038; ash-Sham school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,915,526,627,34,687,719,440,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-brand","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-education","category-specs","category-sports","category-syria","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896","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=26896"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26912,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896\/revisions\/26912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}