According to evidence compiled by High Court Judge Ismael Moreno, Imad Eddin Barakat, the convicted leader of a Spanish Al Qaeda cell, did not stop financing Islamic terrorism even after he was imprisoned in November of 2001. Barakat is a Syrian-born Spanish citizen who is currently serving a 12-year sentence for being a member of…
According to a new report published by the Italian daily newspaper Il Sole, almost 40 percent of prisoners held in Italian jails are foreign-born. According to the report, Moroccan and Romanians make up the largest numbers of these prisoners – with some 4,199 Moroccans and 2,738 Romanians, of the total 51,736 jailed in Italian prisons….
The New York Times describes the story of Debbie Almontaser, who dreamed of starting a unique public school in Brooklyn in which children of Arab and non-Arab descent would join students of other faiths in learning Arabic together, with hopes of becoming ambassadors of peace and hope. Plans for the school, however, have not gone…
Newly drafted laws in the Catalonia region of Spain will limit immigrants in public and other colleges as part of a regional education law. The law will permit different percentages of foreigners in certain education areas, and those areas with too few foreigners will be able to increase the number of positions by up to…
