Battle mars Syria holiday cease-fire
Fighting raged near a military base in Syria's north as a cease-fire in the bloody civil war was supposed to go into effect Friday at dawn, activists said, illustrating the difficulty of enforcing even a limited truce coinciding with a Muslim holiday.  

[They were just being good muslims. Their false prophet Muhammed (wibih) came to power only after he attacked and pillaged caravans on what was a holy day for the pagan religion of his time]