Jihadist Misfire

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Well, that was annoying. I wrote a rather long article from memory, posted it as private so that I could retrieve some links and populate it (and clean it up), then spent a couple of hours in that cleanup process, including an extensive reorganization of it

Comments

[anonymous]

Damm, and I get frustrated when I write a comment, accidently go to another page before posting, or forget to fill in required info at a new site, and lose the comment.

I am looking forward to the cleaned up draft. The GZM commentary I sent you had a section on one ofthe M. Brotherhood's more influential members, Stayed Qutb, the author of one of Islamism’s most important books, “Milestones“ which fit in quite well with what I read regarding your summation of the mentality of Islamist thinking active in the middle east today.

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Arabic transliteration variations are annoying, aren't they? I've seen Qutb's first name as Sayyad, Sayyid, Said ... and the last name often gets an extra vowel to support the "Kutub" pronunciation.

Yes, I'm aware of him, though I've read only brief excepts of his work. It's intriguing to me that he seemed to have been radicalized decades ago when he came to the US and was apparently teaching college. (He worked at or attended a number of colleges; this wasn't quite like the later Unabomber who was a Berkeley collage adjunct professor.)

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[cutelildrow]

I'll be more than happy to wait. Your posts are always very good to read.

Do you use a client or LJ's web-post? I use Semagic, personally, or craft out what I want to write first on Notepad (for longish comments.)

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I've been using Semagic for almost a decade.

I'd posted the private one (saving it off as a separate draft), then worked on a new version, posted it as new, and then killed the old one.

A few minutes later, it turned out that the old one was the one with the current time, and the edited version had the older time -- which means that I'd killed it off after a couple of hours additional work.

One problem with having a good memory is that I can write most of this material without having to go find source documents. This means that I occasionally get things wrong, or remember things that are true but are not talked about in current sources or are denied in current sources. Many times, the original sources have gone away.

For many years now -- since the mid 1990s -- I've used "TheBrain.com" (an excellent program, with a free version that is very good) to track things, but I don't generally put the entire articles in there nor even every link.

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