The Montgomery County School Board preferred to take Christmas off the calendar than mention the Eid al Adha:
- Maryland School Board Asked to Recognize Muslim Holy Day, Strikes References to All Religious Holidays Instead (Think Progress)
Wondering what all the treasure and lives spent on Afghanistan has bought us?
- Afghanistan Opium Production Hits New High as Foreign Troops Pack Up (Christian Science Monitor)
Experiences such as the suggestion that a Cosby-like parody about an American Muslim family would be made realistic by adding “a terrorist uncle who lived in the basement with a goat … radicalized” Aasif Mandvi into “the jihadist of irony”:
“The men were reportedly lured from their homes by the soldiers with the promise of money and jobs but then shot dead … four years ago. They were then falsely described as Pakistani militants. The staged killings led to protests and bloodshed in the Kashmir Valley”:
The history of “the unusual economic independence of the woman Muhammad married – and his approval of her sovereign existence … is often missing from the narrative within and about Islam” but Muslim women are once again becoming “a significant economic force”:
- ‘Womenomics’ Is Starting to Transform the Muslim World (Financial Times)
“Video from security cameras suggested [two teenagers] were shot despite posing no immediate threat to the troops”:
It’s a setback for conservative rival Gulf states which have sought to marginalize Qatar for its support of the relatively more democratic Muslim Brotherhood:
“Nearly three years after Yemen ousted a decades-old dictatorship and began a political transition aimed at preventing civil war, the fragile nation is once again on the brink of disaster”:
- Why Yemen, a Shaky US Ally Against Al Qaeda, Is Cracking Apart (Christian Science Monitor)
Having liberated the village from the IS, the Kurdish peshmerga have turned it over to a Christian militia of its former inhabitants to enable it other residents to return …
- Iraq Christians Guard Village Taken From IS Group (AP / abc News)
… while the Iraqi government shakes up its corrupt military amid reports that the “US-led coalition against the so-called Islamic State and other extremists in neighboring Syria have killed more than 860 people, including civilians”:
- Islamic State Roundup: An Iraq Military Shakeup, and the US Air Strikes’ Toll (Christian Science Monitor)
