{"id":48599,"date":"2016-02-09T05:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48599"},"modified":"2016-02-09T05:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T05:22:58","slug":"comparative-martyr-photos-for-ibn-siqilli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48599","title":{"rendered":"Comparative martyr photos for Ibn Siqilli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Muslim and Sikh memorial photos have similar aesthetic &#038; emotional appeal ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long been interested in the death photos used in AQ and IS propaganda, several of which <strong>Chris Anzalone<\/strong> [aka <strong>Ibn Siqilli<\/strong>] has documented, eg:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_eOThecFRKFQ\/Snu-S8dfbOI\/AAAAAAAAECc\/SUbLMi5VUZQ\/s400\/al-Zubayr+al-Sudani.jpg\"><br \/>\n<strong>Al-Zubayr al-Sudani<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/occident.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/art-of-martyr-part-i-martyrdom-in.html\">as featured in the AQC-produced video series &#8220;Wind of Paradise<\/a>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baitullah-mehsud.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48601\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baitullah-mehsud.png\" alt=\"baitullah-mehsud\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baitullah-mehsud.png 500w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baitullah-mehsud-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe late Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/thewasat.wordpress.com\/tag\/tehrik-i-taliban-pakistan\/\"><strong>Baytullah Mehsud<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Today, I ran across similar images from <a href=\"http:\/\/flickrhivemind.net\/Tags\/dalkhalsa\/Interesting\">a site devoted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khalistan_movement\">Khalistan (Sikh homeland) liberation movement<\/a><\/a> &#8212; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sikh-martyrs.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sikh-martyrs.jpg\" alt=\"Sikh martyrs\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sikh-martyrs.jpg 500w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sikh-martyrs-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As far as I can tell, being linguistically and historically challenged, the gentleman on the right would be <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gurjant_Singh_Budhsinghwala\">Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; perhaps someone can help me identify the gentleman on the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Muslim and Sikh memorial photos have similar aesthetic &#038; emotional appeal ] . I&#8217;ve long been interested in the death photos used in AQ and IS propaganda, several of which Chris Anzalone [aka Ibn Siqilli] has documented, eg: Al-Zubayr al-Sudani, as featured in the AQC-produced video series &#8220;Wind of Paradise&#8220; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,526,644,842,1129,502,778,804,709,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-charles-cameron","category-graphical-thinking","category-ibn-siqilli","category-martyr","category-pakistan","category-photography","category-sikh","category-taliban","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48599","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=48599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48618,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48599\/revisions\/48618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}