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JURIST Contributing Editor Liaquat Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the recent events in the US are a continuation of a Western medieval custom of desecrating the Qur'an... The recent Qur'an burning by Pastor Terry Jones,...

Dutch politician Geert Wilders said Thursday that the Netherlands will ban the burqa and other full Islamic veils as part of the government's plan to form a minority coalition. The Liberals and...

An Amsterdam trial court ruled Wednesday that it has jurisdiction to try right-wing politician Geert Wilders for statements against Islam. The court rejected Wilders's claim that...

The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the 2008 acquittals of seven men charged with belonging to a terrorist network, ordering a new trial. The seven men, suspected of belonging to...

Of 113 terrorism cases in the Netherlands between September 11, 2001 and 2008, only 27 have led to convictions according to a report Thursday in the NRC Handelsblad . The report states that...

Dutch parliamentarians called for changes to the country’s terrorism laws Thursday in response to a Wednesday appeals court decision overturning the convictions of seven men suspected of belonging to the Dutch Muslim Hofstad Network . The...

A Dutch appeals court Wednesday overturned the convictions of seven men who were charged with being in a terrorist network that included Muslim extremist Mohammed Bouyeri . Bouyeri confessed to the November 2004 murder [BBC report;...

The Dutch government announced after a cabinet meeting Friday that it will introduce legislation to ban the Muslim full-length burqa veil as well as other face coverings like ski masks in...

The Dutch parliament official website] has approved a new anti-terror bill that dramatically lowers the amount of evidence needed for Dutch police to arrest terror suspects and allows officials to hold suspects for up to two weeks without charge....

Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali , who was born in Somalia, resigned her office Tuesday and announced that she will leave the Netherlands in response to the controversy surrounding her naturalization. Ali admitted lying on her 1992 asylum...