Ga. judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
December 17th, 2008 . by TexasFredGa. 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!
So, Fred, you don’t think this is a Muslim nation yet? I might suggest you go here to be disabused of that little notion. Of course, it’s Minnesota — where else?
BZ
BZ, are you willing to FIGHT it or are you going to sit back in apathy much the same as McCain and the presidency?? Are YOU going to, are you WILLING to just sit back and accept it??
“anything other than sit in the basement with a keyboard and a bag of Cheetos” damn it I gotta turn off that webcam…
Oh hell yeah I’d fight it, I am willing to stand toe to toe side by side with anyone that will fight it. We can’t do it from here, we need to go out and confront it, however 3 or 30 of us would just be called a “Hate group” 3k to 30k would be called a “large hate group, 3 million to 30 million would be called ” an uneducated voting block”
I am for a revolution myself, it’s time to take our government back.
When I was on jury duty we had a Muslim witness, they made it a point that “She took off her habib” or jib jab or whatever the hell it’s called, so we were supposed to Really believe her cause she removed it…
I should have been removed from the jury at that moment for what I was thinking…
This brings up a point I’ll write about very soon but, the short answer to that and a few other question is: yes. And one of the ways we fight this is to continue to communicate and inform those who, in their OWN apathy, don’t know that this is already occurring in our nation. We write about it, we place this information into the Blogosphere and onto the internet where, increasingly, people are receiving their news. That’s just one way.
BZ
I am SO close to going OFF on every rag wearing Muslim son of a bitch in this nation it ain’t funny, and we do have a few here, in Texas, but they tend to keep it on the quiet, maybe because of vocal and radical rednecks like me. Maybe it’s time for a lot more radical AMERICAN LOVING rednecks to stand and take this nation back, and apathetic AMERICA HATING fake conservatives assholes like Donnie Dickless and his PROGRESSIVE ilk can read that any way they want to.
Prior to 9/11, Muslim women didn’t seem to have a problem removing their head scarfs. Many didn’t want to be seen in public wearing a head scarf. But now, they’re making it an issue to even circumvent our laws. Many are demanding to have drivers license pictures taken with their full faces covered. To me, this has become an “in your face” thing against our way of life and culture in this country.
When I was in Saudi Arabia, our females had to conform to how the Saudis wanted them to dress. They didn’t have to wear their type of dress but they had to have their arms covered down to their wrists and no pants were allowed, only skirts down to their ankles. They, the Saudis, could have cared less about our customs or beliefs.
Bob, I am goddamned tired of US having to please these ragheaded sons a bitches… Fed up with it, and NOT going to be quiet about it any more, and I don’t give a damn WHO likes it or not.. I know you’re feeling MUSH the same…
I hope a few of these faux intellectual bone smokers and fake conservatives take issue with me on this, I want the whole world to see these America hating, apathetic asshole PROGRESSIVE sons a bitches for exactly what they really are…