While IS murders innocent humanitarians …
- If ISIS Beheads a Muslim … (The Hill)
… Muslim neighbors of a one victim of IS murder raise funds “to help provide financial support for Alan’s family and other ongoing projects to benefit those in need to ensure his legacy continue”:
The continuing series of American missteps in the Middle East now threatens one of our most moderate and stable allies:
- Islamic State Group Shells Syrian Border Crossing (AP / abc News)
- Turkish Kurds on the Frontline: ‘We Will Never Leave Kobani in Isis Hands’ (Guardian)
- What’s at Stake as Kurds, Islamic State, and US Fight over Kobane? (Christian Science Monitor)
- Thousands ‘Will Most Likely Be Massacred’, U.N. Warns, as Fighters Push into Kobani (Reuters)
- Why Syria’s Disaster Threatens a War in Turkey (Guardian)
“Egypt has clamped down on security and tightened control over faculties…. ‘Our demands have not changed, but the situation has moved on without us. All we achieved were friends in prison, friends in graves,’ says Hend … [who took] a leading role in Al Azhar’s Muslim Brotherhood protests” …
- Egypt’s Universities, Centers of Dissent, Reopen Under Strict New Controls (Christian Science Monitor)
.. and in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria the repression continues:
- Police Arrest 40 Protesters at Islamist Rallies (AP / abc News)
“It’s not fair that we have to constantly keep justifying and explaining things that people have not put any effort in trying to understand” –Â Amirah Amin, a “social worker … mentoring a handful of young women … [in a] group, called ‘SisterHOOD’”:
- Fearful Muslim Teenage Girl’s plea to Be Accepted (Sydney Morning Herald)
“The Instagram account has since been frozen by its users, with the explanation that it has been ‘shut down due to the high amount of false publicity’”:
“Last year, I said that I do not deserve it, and I still say that because I have started a campaign and it’s not over yet. It’s not completed yet”:
- Malala Yousafzai Was at School When She Won Nobel Peace Prize (AP / abc News)
“By fusing both their sense of fashion with their faith, this growing group … is reinterpreting traditional notions of what it means to dress conservatively. They’re spawning a new market for niche fashion brands and finding unexpected supporters among some mainstream brands, as well as from conservative Christian and Orthodox Jewish women”:
- Make Way For The Muslim ‘Hijabi Hipsters’ (Huffington Post)
“Distraught families plead that their girls are kidnap victims, but a proposed French law would treat them as terrorists liable to arrest upon return”:
- How 2 French Girls Were Lured to Jihad Online (AP / abc News)
“[T]he group, which swept to power in Somalia in 2006, stayed a potent force after it was driven from Mogadishu in 2011 and the latest setbacks are unlikely to halt its campaign that has included attacking the presidential compound, assassinating officials and ambushing the Western-backed African Union force”:
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