{"id":28780,"date":"2013-10-14T22:54:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T22:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=28780"},"modified":"2013-10-14T23:49:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T23:49:21","slug":"questionnaires-of-life-or-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=28780","title":{"rendered":"Questionnaires of life or death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; sometimes the answer to a simple question is a matter of life ansd death ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, the <strong>New York Times<\/strong> ran a remarkable article about a retired IRA gunman, <strong>Sean O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong>, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/13\/world\/europe\/behind-flurry-of-killing-potency-of-hate.html\">Behind Flurry of Killing, Potency of Hate<\/a>.  At the heart of this article was what I call a <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=24681\">DoubleQuote in the Wild<\/a> &#8212; an observed and noted parralelism, in thoughts and or events, with echoes and implications far beyond the two particular instances in question. It&#8217;s that DoubleQuote I want to present to you here, drawing on two other news reports for my presentation.<\/p>\n<p>I examined the idea of a jihadist life or death questionnaire <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=27830\">a short while back<\/a>, as exemplified in the upper panel here and the Nairobi slaughter to which it refers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SPEC-death-quiz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SPEC-death-quiz.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC death quiz\" width=\"603\" height=\"642\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SPEC-death-quiz.png 603w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SPEC-death-quiz-281x300.png 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I read the second quote in the lower panel, however, it gives new context to my understanding of the first.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>BBC, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/january\/5\/newsid_2500000\/2500393.stm\">Ten dead in Northern Ireland ambush<\/a>\n<li>\nTelegraph, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/kenya\/10325536\/Nairobi-shopping-mall-attacks-Britons-among-those-caught-up-in-terrorist-assault.html\">Nairobi shopping mall attacks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; sometimes the answer to a simple question is a matter of life ansd death ] . Two days ago, the New York Times ran a remarkable article about a retired IRA gunman, Sean O\u2019Callaghan, titled Behind Flurry of Killing, Potency of Hate. At the heart of this article was what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,627,893,753,210,961,687,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-doublequotes","category-ireland","category-islam","category-islamist","category-nairobi","category-specs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780","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=28780"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28799,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions\/28799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}