Ga. judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
ATLANTA (AP) – A Georgia judge ordered a Muslim woman arrested Tuesday for contempt of court for refusing to take off her head scarf at a security checkpoint.
The judge ordered Lisa Valentine, 40, to serve 10 days in jail, said police in Douglasville, a city of about 20,000 people on Atlanta’s west suburban outskirts.
Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations urged federal authorities to investigate the incident as well as others in Georgia.
“I just felt stripped of my civil, my human rights,” Valentine told The Associated Press on Wednesday from her home, after she said she was unexpectedly released once CAIR got involved. Jail officials declined to say why she was freed.
Municipal Court Judge Keith Rollins said that “it would not be appropriate” for him to comment on the case.
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Ga. judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
I am going to keep this very short in comparison to most posts and say, this is pure BULLSHIT!
I don’t care WHAT religion you belong to but that religion can’t be used to circumvent the laws of this nation. If you want to wear your headgear at ALL times, great, take your rag wearing ass OUT of this nation and go to some place that forces you to do so.
No one is telling this Islamic troublemaker that she can’t wear a rag on her head, they are saying she can’t wear a rag on her head while in court.
This is NOT a Muslim nation, at least, not yet, and there are many of us in this nation that will stand and FIGHT before the USA is allowed to become one!
We’ll likely lose our battle, mostly because there are so few people in this nation that have the GUTS to stand and fight anymore. The PCness that faux intellectuals demand of others, the loony libbers and their desire to give America over to anything that comes along, as long as they don’t have to stand and actually DO anything other than sit in the basement with a keyboard and a bag of Cheetos, and the apathy of so many that CLAIM to be lovers of America, that is exactly what is going to destroy this nation.
Diversity?? Damn right. Religious freedom?? You bet!! Submission?? When HELL freezes over!
If that attitude tends to make you think that I am a racist or a redneck, so be it, you too can kiss my ALL AMERICAN ass as you die and go straight to HELL!