News and Analysis (10/27/16)

The placement of American drone bases in threatens to undermine the most promising democratic reform movement in the Arab world …

• U.S. Has Secretly Expanded Its Global Network of Drone Bases to North Africa (Washington Post)

… adding to the horrors inflicted by drones not only on he victims of American military intervention abroad, but our own soldiers suffering “guilt, anxiety, moral injury, PTSD, sleep disorder, despair” and sometimes suicide”:

• The U.S. National Bird Is Now a Drone (davidswanson.org)

The imamah says that resistance from more conservative Muslims has been “quite moderate” but that she has “received threats from right-wing extremists on social media”:

• Scandinavia’s First Female-led Mosque in Denmark Makes Compromises to Avoid Burning Bridges (AFP / Straits Times)

“There are a lot of feminist undertones with the decision to veil parts of yourself in order to make other parts of yourself shine” — Layla Shaikley, NASA intern and cofounder of TedxBaghdad and of software startup Wise Systems :

• Hijab in High Places: Muslim Women Leaders Explain the Challenges of Visibility (Fast Company)

Erdogan is more fearful of the Kurds than Asad or ISIS:

• Turkish Leader Threatens More Involvement on Syrian Border (AP / abc News)

His father reminded him that his scholarship to Bennington College was “donated by wealthy Americans” and educating a poor African Muslim is “as Islamic as building a mosque” and kept the US “elevated in the eyes of Allah”:

• My Muslim Father’s Faith in America (New Yorker)

“[M]ore than 14 million people, over half of Yemen’s population … are short of food, with much of the country on the brink of famine, according to the United Nations”:

• Images of Starving People in Yemen Help to Show the Horrors of War (Reuters / abc News)

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