A Muslim newborn girl has died at the hospital of Udine. Her parents decided to bury their daughter in the cemetery of Paderno (a village in the province of Udine); where one year earlier the Muslim community obtained from the municipality a specific area in the local cemetery. The community, in fact, was unable to…
A woman whose headscarf became entangled in a go-kart is suing the Linnaeushof playground in Bennebroek, the Netherlands. The woman visited the playground in 2007 on an outing of an Islamic association, and claims that the Linnaeushof’s insufficient safety measures and supervision led to the accident and injury, for which she was taken to the…
A 32-member multiparty panel led by Andre Gerin presented a panoply of recommendations aimed at dissuading Muslim women from wearing full-face covering headscarves. Another recommendation: denying resident cards and citizenship to women who wear all-encompassing veils. The panel was bitterly divided over recommending a ban on face-covering veils on the street, and that was not…
The defense attorney for Major Hasan, who is paralyzed from the chest down and still in the hospital, declared they will most likely enter a not guilty plea for the Fort Hood murder charges. He says an insanity defense is possible for his client.
Major Hasan, now paralyzed, will have his first court hearing from his hospital room this weekend. It will determine whether to place him in jail or leave him in the hospital pre-trial. A democratic senator also claims there may be additional emails between Hasan and radical imam Anwar Al-Awlaki that were intercepted by the government….
