{"id":4169,"date":"2011-07-20T05:52:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T05:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2011-07-20T06:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T06:11:11","slug":"teenage-mutant-jihadi-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4169","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Mutant Jihadi Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — jihadist pop ]<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

You’ve no doubt seen the reports of a Jihadist animation movie<\/strong> nearing completion, at DangerRoom<\/a> if not on Jihadica<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It seems like a logical development to me — we’ve already seen that you can get bin Laden DVDs:<\/p>\n

\"bin-laden-dvd.jpg\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Hezbollah even produces its own video games:<\/p>\n

\"hezbollah-special-forces-2.jpg\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What else?<\/p>\n

Will McCants suggested<\/a> “Now they just need some action figures” in his blog post — action figures!<\/strong><\/em> — but then he saw the new Inspire<\/strong><\/em> magazine<\/a>, #6, and tweeted, “New Awlaqi action figure in Inspire looks like the Jewel in Jewel of the Nile” — with a link to a nice image<\/a> — so that part’s taken care of…<\/p>\n

So okay, back to the cartoon — here’s the next big question — what does this remind you of?<\/p>\n

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And I just have to admit — they remind me of this:<\/p>\n

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That’s what the jihadists in the cartoon are — mutant teenage turtles<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

So sorry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — jihadist pop ] . You’ve no doubt seen the reports of a Jihadist animation movie nearing completion, at DangerRoom if not on Jihadica: It seems like a logical development to me — we’ve already seen that you can get bin Laden DVDs: And Hezbollah even produces its own video games: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,385,526,471,483,113,473,436,1,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analogy","category-art-history","category-charles-cameron","category-cultural-intelligence","category-extremists","category-framing","category-propaganda","category-psychology","category-uncategorized","category-wired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","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=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}