{"id":44774,"date":"2015-05-10T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44774"},"modified":"2015-05-10T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T19:34:08","slug":"role-reversal-well-not-quite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44774","title":{"rendered":"Role reversal &#8212; well, not quite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; an astute PR move, i think &#8212; but still a slaughter of captives ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s usually the men in balack (IS) who execute the men in orange (Copts) &#8212; upper panel, below &#8212; but this time there has been a reversal of the color code, with the men in orange (Jaysh a-Islam) executing the men in black (IS) &#8212; lower panel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SPEC-DQ-role-reversal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SPEC-DQ-role-reversal.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ role reversal\" width=\"602\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SPEC-DQ-role-reversal.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SPEC-DQ-role-reversal-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think the Jaysh&#8217;s choice of orange jumpsuits on this occasion was likely in deliberate and ironic commentary on the IS images, as indeed the IS choice was a deliberate choice echoing the jumpsuits of Guantanamo.<\/p>\n<p>Note, though, that those executed in the upper panel were Christians, while the Jaysh is a Muslim outfit giving IS a taste of its own medicine. The Coptic Christians, by contrast, have been <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44023\">remarkably forgiving<\/a>, treating the e=xecution of their own as a cause for gratitude at the faithfuoness of their martyrs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; an astute PR move, i think &#8212; but still a slaughter of captives ] . It&#8217;s usually the men in balack (IS) who execute the men in orange (Copts) &#8212; upper panel, below &#8212; but this time there has been a reversal of the color code, with the men in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,627,1078,1047,210,1129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-doublequotes","category-is","category-isis","category-islamist","category-martyr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44774","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=44774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44777,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44774\/revisions\/44777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}