A Muslim teacher who was fired from her job for wearing a headscarf has been allowed to return to her job. The Council of State declared her dismissal unlawful, saying that an individual public school or district may not impose a general ban on religious symbols. In early 2006, a Brussels school district began imposing…
An Iraqi Kurd convicted on a terrorism charge after his arrest in 2003 has been released early on parole after assisting police in other terrorism cases, a German judge said Tuesday. The man has been named only as Lokman M, aged 33, and is reported to be the first member of a foreign terrorist organization…
Students at Leuven University are unhappy that halal food is still not available in the student cafeterias. There are not enough students to warrant the change in menu, cites Kris Van Gool of the Alma chain in charge of Leuven University’s food operations.
Mohamed Daki was convicted of international terrorism in a Milan appeals court Tuesday, though he had been expelled from Italy two years earlier. Daki’s case resulted in a firestorm in 2005 when a Milan court acquitted him and two Tunisians of terrorism charges, citing their actions were those of guerillas, not terrorists. However, a new…
DALLAS, Oct. 22 – A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday in what was widely seen as the government’s flagship terrorism-financing case after prosecutors failed to persuade a jury to convict five leaders of a Muslim charity on any charges, or even to reach a verdict on many of the 197 counts. The case,…
