Written and published the before 9pm EST, July 19, 2021

عيد مبارك
Eid Mubarak, a popular greeting. Eid is a transliteration, as there are others. The spelling is supposedly to reflect how the word may sound. (However, sometimes there are no exact equivalences for each letter from each language to English, rather a best effort to get as close as possible, or represent what the sounds are. The 'E' is not the 'ﻉ', the i is not the 'ﻱ', and so forth.) With impacts of COVID-19 and precautions, shrouding of what is clear can still persist. The word or announcement of when Eid is for certainty, especially the prayer, may have been a bit more difficult to find out than in a non-pandemic status.

Many simply perform Eid prayer the morning after the Day of Arafat.
There are two Eid days per lunar year. The Eid immediately after Ramadhan, the fasting month is one. This Eid, morning performances on Tuesday July 20, 2021, is the Eid after the Day of Arafat.

Published Thursday night EST May 20, 2021
When in January 6, 2021, a stark attack on the US Capitol Building occurred, although it's happened before, such in ripples of the War of 1812, and other incidents at other Capitol Buildings historically, that may have pointed to foretelling of a day it might happen again, the mainstream thought may have been that an attack post year 2000, is about as unimaginable as a snow falling in July in Washington.
July 4th celebrations are going to be tough to hold the normal 'as usual' way this year in the Nation's Capital and other locations, for two obvious reasons, COVID-19, and security concerns.
There is a dollar figure for maintaining security.
A suggestion, is bite the dollar figure, and strategize for as a lean a budget possible. 
Tranquility from anything resembling the January 6th event spoken of, does not have a dollar figure on it, in terms of a value. That is where the balance is drawn.
There is talk of at least two Republicans pushing back efforts for a special National Guard protective force. Solid, and cannot harp on it as a continuum, enough, solid substantiation why a pushback below all covers, not just under color, if under color, of budget, need be present.

-Vulnerabilities to the security of major symbolic infrastructure, can come through the form of politician rhetoric.
To make this point clear, the US Capitol needs to have solid viable protection at all costs, to include dollar costs.

--There's the subject of US possibly pulling out of Afghanistan, to what extent and so forth. What was seen through the girls school incident claiming the lives of about 60 in recent weeks, substantiates right then and there the military announcement by high ranking officials that maintaining some degree of presence is wise. 

There might be a dollar figure to get it all done, but the aftermath when the actions for protection and stability are not made, and something disastrous happens, the aftermath may far outreach in cost and value, the costs spent on common sense actions.

-Fighting over control of a stable government gone unstable in Afghanistan has been proven bound in the past three decades
-Over a dozen persons have been reportedly killed the result of roadside bombs in Afghanistan, earlier today.


Confer militarytimes.com for more information

Written and published, to degree appropriate given the date, March 13, 2021

Today is Eid Al Fatir, as recognized by many around the world.
Eid Mubarak, a well known greeting, to exclaim on this day.
The world has seen the current tensions in the Middle East duplicate itself many times.
1917 was chosen in the title to allude to the hackneyed date of the Balfour Declaration.

Palestine, Israel, Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan, names known over recent years to hotspots of violence, anguish, tensions.
Questions often come up, why do the places near, if not the locations themselves, where the teachings of peace emerge from over thousands of years, be the places where the most intense strife is ongoing? Why during Ramadhan? Why on Eid?

Turkey, behests for Kyrgyzstan to get involved, Palestine, Iraq leaders, and others initiated communication to come to diplomatic solutions to the tensions conundrum.

Who was the perpetrator of the bombing of the girls school in Kabul last week that claimed the lives of about 60 persons?

Many in the 'West', know very little about 'Sunni', 'Shia', and henceforth very, very little about the difference between them. Media in the West however nevertheless will often cite these differences as a major plausible factor in the tensions.

It was debated to try to sing a fable about Afghanistan in the wake of the girls school tragedy.

Let it be said though, there are lessons that can be applied to everywhere.

lndividuals that lurk for vulnerabilities, in crowded places, so they can attack with a thermal method, is very old, whether bomb blast like today, or simply attempt to burn a village, such as through strategically placed arson points.

It may be that evil doers that manipulate vulnerabilities while seeking loss in life, often do not care which 'side', their victims are on.

So, they may attack a 'Shia' town, then within a few weeks later, attack a 'Sunni' town.

Meanwhile, the ruthless violence that went on and is still going on, in Burma-Myanmar, is being examined and analyzed, and reiterating, the events in Afghanistan are going right alongside them in the larger analysis framework.

Who is the one that starts out with a noble cause, maybe a religious slogan to substantiate mass terror, then slide right on over to seeking power, maintaining power, then wealth, then greed, on to rugs, human trafficking, and rest on entities like the UN or consortium of nations to politically recognize them as leaders, giving them more time to continue perpetuating and perpetrating oppression?

Words to the wise, beware, be careful; seek out wrong doers, and put them trial.

The reputable Saudi administrators and authorities on the subject, as of now, 5pm EST, have announced that Eid AlFatir will begin at sunset Wednesday, making that day the last day of fasting, last day of Ramadhan, whereat Thursday, the next day May 13th, will be Eid prayer, basically coinciding with the first day of the following Hijri, [lunar] month.
In the USA, a number of congregations will likely go forward with being synchronous to abovesaid announcement.
However, other moon sighting groupings may find a different date, as was for their assertion of the first day of Ramadhan. This referring to in the USA and other locations globally. This year, there are reports of at least a up to a 2 day discrepancy as held by some groupings from the date announced by the Saudi Royal authorities.

A 2 day discrepancy, might have eventualities found cumbersome when a couple of months down the line, the Day of Arafat will be announced, and it is ordinarily the norm for Hajjis (people performing Hajj) to all do the same thing in uniform. Between now and then, what will happen to the phases of the moon are for the most part to be ascertained when they arrive; [a simplistic pragmatic view might hold, that if all goes as they usually go, something unusual might have to happen in order for everyone to be on the same page].

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Written and published night Sunday, May 9, 2021 EST
Title enough said. Stories abound the Internet.
Tragedy in Kabul, Afghanistan girls school.