MIAMI – Jose Padilla, the Brooklyn-born convert to Islam whom the government once accused of plotting to detonate a dirty bomb in the United States, was sentenced on Tuesday to 17 years and 4 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to help Islamic jihadist fighters abroad. The sentence was more lenient than…
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut: William Chrisman had three wives and nine children to support and struggled with panic attacks, but the Muslim convert was determined to help the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He became an informant for the FBI and ended up in contact with two other Muslim converts suspected of…
A dietary conflict at the Ringerike prison in Norway has provoked many prisoners to convert to Islam. The conversion is a demonstration of sympathy with Muslim inmates after authorities refused to supply halal meat during Ramadan. An anonymous inmate told the NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) that the support of their fellow inmates may have occurred due…
Six men are accused of operating a network to recruit people in Belgium, to join an Islamic militant group. Among the recruitments was a female convert to Islam, who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq near a U.S. patrol in November 2005. The trial, which began Monday in Brussels, takes place amid rising fears…
Interview with Lydia Nofal, a German Muslim convert, who fights for a new mosque in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
