Islam: Santanche sentenced to 4 days of arrest and a fine

December 2, 2013   Daniela Santanche has been sentenced to four days of prison and payment of a fine of 1,100 Euros. The sentence came from Maria Luisa Balzarotti, a Milan judge, for Santache’s unauthorized anti-burka protest in September 2009. Santanche as the leader of the “Movement for Italy” promoted an anti-burka protest in front…

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Veils in court: judges to be given guidance, says lord chief justice

November 5, 2013   The most senior judge in England and Wales has disclosed plans to launch a consultation on whether veils can be worn in court as he warned the issue had become highly divisive. At his first press conference since taking up his judicial post last month, the lord chief justice, Lord Thomas…

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Federal court reviews legality of NYPD Muslim surveillance program

Judge will rule whether strict limits on surveillance apply to the NYPD’s investigations into hundreds of Muslims.   A federal judge on Tuesday revisited at a decades-old court settlement restricting how the New York Police Department conducts surveillanceafter civil rights lawyers accused the department of breaking those rules by monitoring Muslims.   The dispute centers on the restrictions…

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Judge allows Muslim woman to wear niqab in London court

A Muslim woman has been allowed to make a plea in court while wearing a face-covering niqab after a judge agreed a compromise in which she was identified in private by a female police officer who then attested to her identity. The judge in the case at Blackfriars crown court in London then heard arguments…

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Fully veiled women hinder progressive Islam by Yasmin Alibhai Brown

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a founder member of British Muslims for Secular Democracy and argues that when firstly a British judge and then dedicated educationalists running a British college are defeated by the aggressive guerrilla army of Muslim Salafists and their misguided allies problems arise. At Blackfriars Crown Court, Judge Peter Murphy ordered a 21-year-old, veiled…

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