News and Analysis 1/12/25

At the OIC meeting snubbed by the Taliban, the MWL chief and Malala Yousafzai agreed that limiting girls’ education is unIslamic:

• Islam ‘Places No Restrictions’ on Girls’ Education, Forum Told (Arab News)
• Malala Says Taliban Do Not See Women as Human Beings, Created a System of ‘Gender Apartheid’ (Dawn)

Mexico and Canada aren’t the only foreign countries willing to help in the California crisis, but Iran has had its own problems with wildfires “which devastate wildlife habitats almost every summer”:

• Iran Says Ready to Send Rapid Response Teams to Contain California Fires (Iran International)

Israeli war crimes continue:

• Israel Kills at Least 70 Children Across Gaza in Last 5 Days Alone (Daily Sabah
• CCTV Shows West Bank Woman Shot During IDF Raid as UN Expert Says It Could Be ‘War Crime’ (Sky News)
• Israeli Siege of North Gaza Leaves 5,000 Dead, Missing After 100 Days (Aljazeera)

“His release came days after Iran freed Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist”:

• Italy Releases Iranian Wanted in Lethal Drone Strike on U.S. Troops (Washington Post)

More push-back against Zionism’s war on free speech:

• Activists Back US Professor ‘Forced’ from Columbia over Palestine Advocacy (Aljazeera)

“Banning Khatami from attending the ceremony coincided with a conference on ‘national unity’ elsewhere in Tehran that Pezeshkian addressed on the same day”:

• Iranian Reformists Protest Restrictions on Ex-president (Iran International)

“Although the U.S. publicly backed Kashmir’s right to self-determination via a U.N.-mandated referendum, … [a] report shows that the U.S. prioritized cultivating favorable relations with India over addressing human rights abuses in Kashmir”:

• The Forgotten Right: U.S. Complicity in Kashmir’s Struggle for Self-Determination (Daily Parliament Times)

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