{"id":55700,"date":"2017-06-22T05:33:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55700"},"modified":"2017-06-22T05:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T05:36:26","slug":"on-the-night-of-power-in-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55700","title":{"rendered":"On the Night of Power, in Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Camero<\/strong>n &#8212; figurative self-destruction by ISIS at the Nuri Mosque in Mosul ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Isis destroyed one of the greatest mosques in Islam on the night the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammad.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kareem Shaheen (@kshaheen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kshaheen\/status\/877630167153221633\">June 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Historic-Mosque-destroyed-by-ISIS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"645\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Historic-Mosque-destroyed-by-ISIS.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Historic-Mosque-destroyed-by-ISIS-279x300.png 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hard to imagine more fitting symbol of ISIS self-inflicted decline &#8211; they&#39;ve apparently detonated mosque where Baghdadi claimed caliphate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0CsgqyA74B\">https:\/\/t.co\/0CsgqyA74B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Will McCants (@will_mccants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/will_mccants\/status\/877610455187038208\">June 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will McCants<\/strong> comes closest to my own sense of the business with his invocation of symbolism and his words &#8220;self-inflicted decline&#8221; &#8212; this is an <strong>ouroboric<\/strong> moment, the (yes, self-inflicted) death of the birthplace of ISIS, a homecoming with a vengeance.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>ISIS denies responsibility:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apparent attempt to inflame sentiment against Coalition: ISIS claims it was US airstrike that destroyed iconic Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nbtUi9htz2\">pic.twitter.com\/nbtUi9htz2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tobias Schneider (@tobiaschneider) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tobiaschneider\/status\/877611664706752512\">June 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Atlantic has a piece titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/news\/archive\/2017\/06\/who-blew-up-mosuls-al-nuri-mosque\/531165\/\">Who Blew Up Mosul&#8217;s Al-Nuri Mosque?<\/a> &#8212; but points out that ISIS might prefer its founding edifice destroyed to its certain capture and propaganda use against it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcallimachi\/status\/877617711899181056\">notes<\/a> ISIS has not shied away from using mosques for battle purposes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcallimachi\/status\/877613119274500096\">suggests<\/a> its destruction could be aimed at preventing coalition forces from taking control of it themselves \u2014 a move that could be of symbolic importance given the landmark\u2019s role in the self-proclaimed caliphate\u2019s founding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there we go again &#8212; &#8220;the self-proclaimed caliphate&#8221; &#8212; ouroboric from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>All this takes place on, of all nights, the <strong>Night of Power<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; figurative self-destruction by ISIS at the Nuri Mosque in Mosul ] . Isis destroyed one of the greatest mosques in Islam on the night the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammad. &mdash; Kareem Shaheen (@kshaheen) June 21, 2017 ** ** Hard to imagine more fitting symbol of ISIS self-inflicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1048,526,45,1078,1047,1459,1,769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caliph","category-charles-cameron","category-iraq","category-is","category-isis","category-rukmini-callimachi","category-uncategorized","category-will-mccants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700","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=55700"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55719,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700\/revisions\/55719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}