The seven men – five Frenchmen, one Algerian and one Moroccan between 24 and 40 years old – were convicted of criminal asocial with a terrorist enterprise and sentenced to between 18 months and seven years in prison for helping funnel fights to Iraq’s insurgency. Most acknowledged going to Iraq after the U-S-led invasion in…
A law which prohibits Muslim women teachers from wearing head-scarves in a German state’s public schools also forbids Catholic nuns from wearing their veils in regular classrooms, judges said Wednesday. The administrative tribunal of Baden-Wuerttemberg state set out the position in a detailed written judgement, two months after ruling verbally that a woman convert to…
Immigrants in the northern Italian city of Padua have decided to contribute to local security, by organizing a local nighttime neighborhood watch. Mohammed Ahmed, an Egyptian-born news anchor, launched the initiative. The group of immigrants who are integrated in the local community will begin their patrol on Friday night, in several districts of the city….
