Juan often has good insights, but when he gets it wrong, like here, he goes all-in. It's almost like a poker-tell: when the general public's (and mainstream media's) reaction is right about a topic involving Islam (however rare that may be), Juan's tone rises and he gets all dismissive and prickly.
Yes, of course Mohammad Hassan Manteghi Bourjerdi, aka Man Haron Monis, aka 'Sheikh' Haron, was not directly affiliated with ISIS.
But equally obviously he wanted to be, and ISIS leaders (once they learned of him during the seige) encouraged him and other lone-rat attacks. (See the ISIS Twitter responses to it.)
Equally obvious, when Hakki Bahadir Atahan tried to rob a bank in 1984, it was not in a context of gruesome terrorist incidents being perpetrated on innocent civilians around the world using a religion as an excuse, with the fear of even greater mayhem via alleged bombs.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
The Sydney crisis was a major crisis not because of what happened, but because of what was unknown at first, the broader context, and what could happen.
What does this mean, 'in the hands of': "Most of the works Al-Azhar University has done in Egypt, even the academic works, are now in the hands of Saudi Arabia."
Does it mean that Saudi Arabia funded this research and writing?
Juan often has good insights, but when he gets it wrong, like here, he goes all-in. It's almost like a poker-tell: when the general public's (and mainstream media's) reaction is right about a topic involving Islam (however rare that may be), Juan's tone rises and he gets all dismissive and prickly.
Yes, of course Mohammad Hassan Manteghi Bourjerdi, aka Man Haron Monis, aka 'Sheikh' Haron, was not directly affiliated with ISIS.
But equally obviously he wanted to be, and ISIS leaders (once they learned of him during the seige) encouraged him and other lone-rat attacks. (See the ISIS Twitter responses to it.)
Equally obvious, when Hakki Bahadir Atahan tried to rob a bank in 1984, it was not in a context of gruesome terrorist incidents being perpetrated on innocent civilians around the world using a religion as an excuse, with the fear of even greater mayhem via alleged bombs.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
The Sydney crisis was a major crisis not because of what happened, but because of what was unknown at first, the broader context, and what could happen.
What does this mean, 'in the hands of': "Most of the works Al-Azhar University has done in Egypt, even the academic works, are now in the hands of Saudi Arabia."
Does it mean that Saudi Arabia funded this research and writing?