Posted on 04/22/2006 6:53:58 PM PDT by voletti
WASHINGTON: The trial of Rehana Khan, a Muslim girl of Pakistani-descent from Illinois who had her headscarf or hijab ripped off after she and several others were arrested for civil disobedience while protesting at a rally for immigrant rights last year, has finally been scheduled for April 25. A group of five young people - white, Latino, Muslim - are facing up to four years in jail for a protest against the racist vigilante group the Minutemen. Two Illinois state attorneys have reportedly refused to discuss a plea without jail time. Their case goes to trial on April 25, according to the New Jersey-based website DesPardes, quoting the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Rehana, while being led to a police squad car, reportedly informed an officer that the way in which she was being handled was causing extreme pain - actions from which she obtained bruises and scars - and requested that the officer ease her grip. The officer responded by stating, “No, that’s what you get,” and then remarked, “Take that off” and violently pulled off her hijab. At the police station, Rehana was made to take off her hijab again and was searched by a female and male officer without her hijab on. After the search, the female officer tried to give the hijab back to her but the male officer stopped her, saying that there was nobody at the station to look at her, while adding that the practice of wearing the hijab was a “fashion statement”. The detainee was then kept in lock up without being permitted to wear her hijab. CAIR-Chicago will be meeting representatives of the village of Arlington Heights to discuss this instance of police misconduct. khalid hasan
Here send to all MM to let them have a good laugh.
Let Christians wear crosses and worship freely in muslim countries, and we'll give the whole hijab thing a second look, 'kay?
a hijab in jail would be similar to a belt..a no no
Can't do the time...
"Let Christians wear crosses and worship freely in muslim countries, and we'll give the whole hijab thing a second look, 'kay?"
Good point, but 2 wrongs don't make a right. That said, this story sounds like it might be BS muckraked up by CAIR.
Oh my God! Did someone see her unclothed hair? The humanity!
I am getting verklempt .. *sniffle*
>>are facing up to four years in jail for a protest against the racist vigilante group the Minuteme<
I am very sensitive to the right to protest. And i am concered and sensitive about police behavior.
But..
1. If you are arrested you have to show your face.
2. How can we take the rest of this story seriously after what they said about the minute men? - its dripping with bias
The view from America's WoT ally.
Funny how that's against Islam while Judeo-Christianity allows for anyone to worship and believe anyway they want openly.
If it weren't going to be so tragic and horrific, I'd be laughing my onions off the day that Muslims begin to take over portions of states and integrate Sharia laws thereby tossing what many call "separation of church and state" to the four winds and to the detriment of anyone non-muslim.
Idiocy and a failure to defend one's freedoms leads to all sorts of disastrous things, eh.
Gosh, do you think that the Pakistani Times knows that there are cartoons of the girl as well?
They depict her as actually TOUCHING Mohammed.....
Black Groups, Minutemen To Join Forces For Rally
(CBS) LOS ANGELES A few African American groups plan to join members of the Minuteman Project Sunday to protest illegal immigration, called the “biggest threat to blacks in America since slavery” by organizer Ted Hayes.
That picture defines the battle.
Four years, is that all?
A fine example of journalistic integrity...really not too different from the kind of crap we read here in the US.
Of course here the mushhead media wouldn't say "racist vigilante group the Minutemen"--rather "self appointed, lie in wait, jingoistic"---not much difference is there?
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