While Muslims across the world celebrate Eid, in Syria, Yemen and Iraq politics and conflict means that people celebrate on different days. EidAlFitr2019
Muslims across the world yesterday celebrated the end of Ramadan. Yet for Muslims living in warzones, Eid, which should be a day to rest and reunite with family, has been marred by bitter local conflict. As if that weren’t enough, in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, where local conflicts are part of larger regional and global wars, Ramadan and Eid are increasingly used as tools in the ever-increasing power struggle on the ground.
There have been deep political differences between Shia and Sunni authorities over power-sharing in Iraq since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, which have since extended to include exerting control over the communities.As the war in Yemen enters its fifth year, the Saudi-backed Yemeni government, currently based in the port of Aden, declared that Tuesday would be the first day of Eid, aligning itself with Saudi Arabia.
As the power struggle between the two sides deepens, local actors feel the need to exercise their power by being able to impose their will over all matters, which now includes religious affairs. Yemen has been plagued by a civil war that began in 2015. Since then the war, which has seen Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran fight out a bitter proxy war for control over the strategic country, has left millions malnourished and thousands dead and displaced. In Syria, where the Assad regime is attempting to gain control of Idlib, one of the last opposition-held areas, religious division is not just a fight for political survival.
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