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 Leuven municipal council voted down a proposal by Vlaams Belang to ban civil servants from wearing the headscarf. By a large majority, only three of 45 councilors supported the proposal. Hagen Goyvaerts of Vlaams Belang pointed out that ethics codes provide for workers to stay neutral during working hours, and may not conduct religious…
An imam in Turin was expelled from Italy to his native Morocco, after his sermons were secretly filmed and deemed a threat to public security. Mohamed Kohaila has been living in Italy for several years according to the Interior Ministry, and that checks from local and national anti-terrorism authorities showed that Kohaila was inciting violently…
Laleh Bakhtiar, an Iranian-American scholar, had already spent two years working on an English translation of the Koran when she came upon Chapter 4, Verse 34. The hotly debated verse states that a rebellious woman should first be admonished, then abandoned in bed, and ultimately beaten – the most common translation for the Arabic word…
PARIS (AP) — One was a security agent once praised for finding a weapon in a piece of luggage, another handled baggage and a third delivered mail. All are practicing Muslims who worked at the main Paris airport – until their security clearance was revoked. They are among 72 people who had security badges taken…
