Scarf Wars
A long time ago, in a country far, far away…
It is a period of conquest. Rebel Islamists, striking from the backs of smelly camels, have won their first victory against the Jewish empire…. The Evil Darth Muhammad kills all the men and takes the women for his pleasure… And, just to make sure that they know they are relegated to second class status, Darth Muhammad makes them cover their heads when in public…
Today, that tradition of head covering continues to be a symbol of a male dominated Muslim society, though today’s Muslim women are so brainwashed, they don’t realize it and even go so far as to defend it as a religious symbol of their faith…
Muslim woman sues for being forced to remove headscarf in San Bernardino jail
By The Associated Press – via InfocusNews
LOS ANGELES— A Muslim woman arrested for riding a commuter train without a valid ticket has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States, claiming her religious freedom was violated when she was forced to remove her headscarf when she was taken to jail.
The suit, filed filed Dec. 5 in U.S. District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, names the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and Deputy Craig Roberts of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Jameela Medina, 29, a Ph. D student at Claremont Graduate University, was riding a commuter train from San Bernardino to the California State University, Los Angeles station on Dec. 7, 2005, when she was arrested for having an invalid ticket.
Roberts handcuffed Medina, put her in the back of a police car and began driving her to a jail. According to the suit, Roberts “accused Medina of being a terrorist and supporting terrorism. He stated that Muslims are evil … and that the United States was in Iraq at God’s direction to squash evil,” read the suit.
At the West Valley Detention Center in San Bernardino, Medina was forced to remove her headscarf despite several attempts to explain to a female deputy why she wore it, the suit said. After several hours, Medina was released without being charged or fined, her lawyer said.
The suit seeks unspecified damages and attorney fees.
Medina’s lawyer if the federal prison allowed for inmates to wear the hijab, the san Bernardino facility should as well.
Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Southern California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said authorities often see women with their heads covered the same way “as a male’s choice to wear a baseball cap,” Ayloush said. “This is not the case. For Muslim woman who wear the hijab, it’s their total belief that this is a religion requirement.”
10 January, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Hey, the head scarf is to cover the bruises, I thought.
And because most of them seem butt-ugly. Although the princess or queen or whatever of jordan is pretty hot.
10 January, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Of course, she’s not wearing a burka. She’s wearing Prada and a skimpy bathing suit.
10 January, 2008 at 7:36 pm
CAIR to the rescue. Again.
When will this wretched organization be put out of business?
15 January, 2008 at 2:41 pm
In the long distant days of my youth, the highlight of one particular nights riotous dissipation was
in invitation to spend the rest of it as a guest of her majesty”s constabulary. Whist I do not remember all the details, I do remember the minions of the law requesting my belt and shoelaces,
the reason given was that I might use them to hang myself. A hijab will do the same thing. A
central tenet of my religion is to cover my genitals in public, they are for private adoration only.
Without belt I did risk exposing them,I need advice if I can retroactively sue for having my
religious rights violated.
12 February, 2008 at 5:36 pm
ISLAMOfashion — a hilarious mock-umentary KABOBfest.com created about the kuffiyeh kraze. You’ve got to check it out!