Hofstad Group Member Released from Dutch Jail

May 11 2013 Convicted Dutch terrorist Jason Walters, who has spent eight years in jail for throwing a hand grenade at police, has been released after serving two-thirds of his sentence. He was arrested in 2004 as one of a group of men said to have formed a terrorist organization known to police as the…

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Birmingham terror plot ringleader jailed for minimum of 18 years

Irfan Naseer and co-conspirators planned attacks that could have been more devastating than 7/7 bombings. The ringleader has been jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 18 years. Irfan Naseer, 31, was described by a judge on Friday as the “leader, driving force and man in charge” of the terror cell in…

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CAIR Welcomes S.C. Jail’s New Policy Allowing Hijab

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/14/13) — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today welcomed a decision by a South Carolina jail to allow female inmates to wear religious head coverings, called “hijab.” The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) made the request for a policy change following a complaint from a Muslim woman who…

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Hofstad Group Member Granted Prison Leave

16 January 2012   A member of the Hofstad group has been granted a supervised leave while serving his eight year jail sentence in the Netherlands. Jason Walters, a convert to Islam with an American father and Dutch mother, was convicted of throwing a hand grenade at police while resisting arrest. Walters has since rejected…

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Judge sentences Polish couple for attacking two Headscarved women

16 August 2012 Drunken polish immigrant Beata Jopek and her partner Maciej Matysniak assaulted two Muslim women on a train from Leeds to Sheffield. After verbal attack, the couple pulled at Miss Ibrahim’s hair and the scarf came off. Judge has given Beata Jopek a three-month jail term suspended for 12 months and 120 hours…

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