“[P]ublic opposition to what we later learned would have been a massive bombing campaign … succeeded without knowing about the rejected proposal for peace of 2012 … [but] the U.S. went right ahead inching its way into the war with trainers and weapons and drones”:
The enterprising 14-year-old was very proud of having built his own electronic clock, but when he tried to show and tell at school his teacher insisted it must be a bomb and had him arrested …
… but “The hashtag … was trending on Twitter all day on Wednesday” and since opening his own twitter account “Ahmed has been invited to visit NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (his “dream schoolâ€), and the White House – a personal invitation from President Obama”:
- Why #IStandWithAhmed Is About More than a Muslim Boy in Texas (Christian Science Monitor)
The unification of Yemen in 1990 was never stable, and once again we may see two governments in the country:
- Yemeni Cabinet Returns to Aden After Months in Saudi Exile (AP / abc News)
- What Does the Return of Yemen’s Exiled Prime Minister Mean? (Christian Science Monitor)
“Hungarian police issued a statement accusing “aggressive†migrants of breaking through the fence, but a United Nations official at the scene said the barrier did not appear to have been breached”:
“Allan staged the hunger strike to protest Israel’s controversial practice of “administrative detention,” which allows it to hold suspected militants without charge for months at a time” and his father fears the re-arrest will kill him:
- Israel Re-Arrests Palestinian Hunger Striker (AP / abc News)
Barbara Falconer Newhall is frightened by both the rigid Saudi interpretation of Islam and ISIS’s violent practice, but not by the “open-minded and loving” expression of the religion her Muslim friend who practices “Islam the way [her] mother does and the way [her] grandmother did”:
- Does Islam Scare You? If So, Here’s Why (Huffington Post)
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