{"id":55675,"date":"2017-06-20T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55675"},"modified":"2017-06-20T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T03:11:09","slug":"monkey-see-monkey-do-or-an-eye-for-an-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55675","title":{"rendered":"Monkey see monkey do, or an eye for an eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; or, I suppose you could say, symmetry ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Finsbury Park Mosque attacker<\/strong> drove a car into a crowd because he was disgusted by the <strong>Westminster Bridge attacker<\/strong> who drove a car into a crowd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Finsbury-Park-Westminster-Bridge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Finsbury-Park-Westminster-Bridge.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Finsbury-Park-Westminster-Bridge-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah well, <strong>bin Laden<\/strong> back in the day had a more sophisticated form of the same practice. As he put it in a speech to America::<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>SPLC<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hatewatch\/2017\/06\/19\/what-we-know-finsbury-park-attack\">What We Know: Finsbury Park Attack<\/a>\n<li><strong>Telegraph<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/03\/22\/westminster-terror-attack-everything-know-far\/\">Westminster attack: Everything we know so far<\/a>\n<li><strong>Zenpundit<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=19957\">Close reading, Synoptic- and Sembl-style<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; or, I suppose you could say, symmetry ] . The Finsbury Park Mosque attacker drove a car into a crowd because he was disgusted by the Westminster Bridge attacker who drove a car into a crowd: Ah well, bin Laden back in the day had a more sophisticated form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,53,526,627,210,1362,383,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bin-laden","category-britain","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-islamist","category-islamophobia","category-symmetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55675","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=55675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55679,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55675\/revisions\/55679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}