Two teachers and one supervisor at a Quran school in Borgerhout (Antwerp) have been sent to court on charges of child abuse, accused of having given a number of student corporeal punishment. The accused taught in a Quran school associated with the Bilal mosque. The investigation began in June 2006 after a complaint from the…
A Belgian court convicted five Islamist militants of belonging to a group that was active in recruiting suicide bombers into Iraq. Bilal Soughir, currently in detention, was sentenced to ten years in prison for being a ringleader of the operation. Four other men tried in absentia were also sentenced for organizing and aiding the plans,…
Four of the five UK residents who are being held at Guantanamo Bay are to be released following a request by the British government. They are not British citizens but all lived in the UK before being held. Who are they and how did they come to be in US detention?
There is another imam among the people placed under investigation by the public prosecutor’s office in Perugia. The man’s name is Muhammad El Absi, a member of the mosque in Pierantonio di Umbertide, not far from Ponte Felcino, the place where investigators claim the “school of terror” was located. During one of the searches on…
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, relaunched the government’s hearts and minds campaign aimed at Britain’s Muslims yesterday, promising she would not rush through anti-terror legislation that might leave them feeling isolated in response to the foiled bomb attacks in Glasgow and London. But she and Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, hinted that…
