04./05.10.2011 On Tuesday, the administrative Court in Minden dismissed the claim made by a former Muslim soldier, who filed a lawsuit against the German army, as considered his early release from service to be unlawful. The 28-year old claimant, Sascha B., had joined the military in 2006 and converted to Islam during his service time….
Religious schools in the Netherlands may not ban Muslim pupils from wearing headscarves on the basis that it contradicts their ‘core values’. Rather, the ban may only operate if it threatens the pupil’s education. This announcement from the Dutch cabinet responded to questions from the anti-Islam PVV, following controversy regarding a Muslim pupil at a…
Lieberman, Collins: FBI and Pentagon could have stopped the Fort Hood shootings. A 14-month Senate committee’s investigation of the Fort Hood killings has concluded that the Department of Defense and the FBI “collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan’s radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it.”…
November 12 2010 Three new judges have been appointed by an Amsterdam court for the trial of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. Wilders faces charges of discrimination and inciting hatred against Muslims for his comments comparing the Quran to Mein Kampf, among others. The previous judges were dismissed last month after a series of irregularities caused…
November 4, 2010 An incident happened in the mosque between Muslim worshippers and the guards employed by the Cordoba mosque, during the past holy week (April 2010) The judge has issued a decree maintaining the complaint of public disorder. The judge sees evidences of assault against public authority, but has dismissed the charges of an…
