US Appeals Court Revives SC Solitary Confinement Challenge Based on Religious Rights

In a unanimous ruling Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said evidence shows that Lumumba Incumma has never received any meaningful review of his solitary confinement, despite having no administrative infractions over the last two decades. Incumma was placed in solitary confinement after he and other members of the…

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INTERVIEW: Dutch professor Jean Tilly compares recent controversial student protests to Muslim radicalism

Background information: The high ranking Dutch University of Amsterdam (UvA) had been occupied by unsatisfied students for months (since February 25th) before being violently cleared out by the riot police last week. Students were camping in the occupied “Maagdenhuis” which is the main administrative building of the university. Critical students and university professors unified themselves…

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A book review of The French Intifada: The Long War between France and its Arabs by Andrew Hussey

February 28, 2014   A book review of The French Intifada: The Long War between France and its Arabs by Andrew Hussey (publication date March 6, 2014)   ‘’ Going well beyond news reports, the book shows just how hot and fierce a vein of hatred for France runs through the Muslim populations that have experienced…

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The violence of Trappes

16.08.2013 Le Monde A month after the two day riots of July 19 to 20, the French daily Le Monde re-narrates the story of France’s second suburban riot of the 21st century. The violence started following the stop and search of a 21-year-old Muslim woman in a niqab in the priority neighbourhood of Mersiers in…

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Veiled French Muslim woman charged with inciting riot

News Agencies – August 7, 2012   A French Muslim woman has been charged with assault and inciting a riot after she refused a police ID check because she was wearing a banned full-face veil.

The 18-year-old is to appear in court in the northern city of Lille charged with assault, insulting police and inciting a…

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