Islam in Britain: Switzerland orders community service for returned Islamic State jihadist

Thursday 11 December 2014

Switzerland orders community service for returned Islamic State jihadist

Switzerland orders community service for returned Islamic State jihadist - Telegraph alternative approaches to UK (and elsewhere): " Switzerland has ordered a returned recruit of the Islamic State group to do 600 hours of community service and will not send him to prison, in the country's first sentencing of a foreign jihadist fighter."

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Gary R. Bunt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded Digital British Islam project; Co-Investigator for the CHANSE funded Digital Islam Across Europe project.

Prof. Bunt's book Hashtag Islam: How Cyber Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority was published in 2018. A new book, Islamic Algorithms, is out in May 2024.

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