A Baltimore man pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to blow up a Catonsville military recruiting station. Antonio Benjamin Martinez, 22, was arrested on Dec. 8, 2010 after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be explosives at the armed forces recruiting station near Baltimore. According to Martinez’s plea agreement, he was a recent convert…
News Agencies – December 27, 2011 Thirty war graves of Muslim soldiers who fought in World War I have been attacked and defaced in the southern city of Carcassonne. Racist insults and swastikas were painted on the graves, which are identified by the Islamic symbols of the star and crescent. Slogans including “France for the…
News Agencies – September 19, 2011 30 Muslim tombs of soldiers killed during the First World War have been desecrated with racist and Nazi inscriptions in the St-Michel cemetery in the city of Carcassonne. The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) and the National Watch Against Islamophobia expressed “indignation” and “anger.” The case has…
LITTLE ROCK — A man who confessed to shooting two soldiers outside a military recruiting station in Arkansas struck a plea deal with prosecutors Monday to avoid the death penalty. Abdulhakim Muhammad pleaded guilty in the middle of his trial to capital murder and attempted capital murder charges. Pulaski County Judge Herbert Wright then sentenced…
July 5 2011 The Hague district court has ruled that the Netherlands can be held responsible for the death of three Bosnian Muslim men in the Srebenica massacre. The deaths occurred when in 1995 Bosnian Serb forces overran the UN ‘safe area’ under the watch of Dutch forces, killing 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and…
