Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/17/2015

Two Muslim employees say they were fired from their jobs at a Paris airport because of their long beards. The two workers, both men, say that their beards are just “hipster fashion”. In possibly unrelated news, some employees and union officials believe that Air France has a problem with religious fundamentalism at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The imposition of halal food in the staff cafeteria was one of the issues cited.

In other news, a Washington think tank reports that Hamas and the Islamic State in the Sinai have been cooperating for the last two years against their common enemy, Egypt. …