(How did our own institutions turn into vultures feeding off of the decay of our own culture?)
There has been controversy over whether it is right for girls attending state schools to wear religious dress rather than the standard uniform.
But the fact that a mainstream retailer is starting to stock the hijab alongside blazers and blouses is likely to be welcomed as a breakthrough by Muslim parents who have so far had to rely on specialist shops.
2. Islamic State fighters kill dozens of Yazidi villagers
DAHUK, Iraq — Extremist fighters have killed more than 80 men and detained hundreds of women in a Yazidi village, Yazidis and Kurdish officials said Saturday, offering a reminder that the ancient minority sect is still at risk despite President Obama’s conclusion that the threat had passed for those stranded on Mount Sinjar. […] The men were rounded up and executed, while the women were taken to an undisclosed location, according to Ziad Sinjar, a pesh merga commander based on the edge of Mount Sinjar, citing the accounts of villagers nearby. Six men were injured but survived, and managed to escape to a nearby village where they are being sheltered by sympathetic local Sunni Iraqis, he said. One of them told him that 84 Yazidi men were lined up and shot and that more than 300 women were taken away.
3. Anti Semitic Flyers Surface At Jewish shops and also here
4. Kenya to suspend entry from Ebola-hit Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
In a statement, Kenya’s government said it would “temporarily suspend entry into Kenya of passengers travelling from and through the three West African countries affected by Ebola namely Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, effective midnight, Tuesday 19th August 2014”.
5. This may explain a few things
Thank you Maria J., Richard, and all who I lost track of already. Thanks for your insights and input. More to come.
#5 I sounds good, now if we could just get the western nations to act like he said we were going to.