i wish... outstanding pic!!!
Posted on 05/09/2007 6:28:49 PM PDT by hercuroc
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York prison guards will be allowed to accommodate religious practices in their uniforms after settlement of a lawsuit on behalf of a Muslim prison officer, the New York Civil Liberties Union said on Wednesday.
The settlement with the New York Department of Correctional Services will allow Abdus Samad Haqq, a devout Muslim corrections officer, to wear a kufi, or skullcap, on the job after he was ordered not to wear it in 2005, according to the
NYCLU.
The union, which filed the suit in Manhattan federal court on behalf of Haqq last October, said the settlement meant other prison officers would also have religious rights in wearing their uniforms.
"New York has now abandoned its policy of refusing to accommodate the religious beliefs of correction officers," said NYCLU lawyer Christopher Dunn.
Brian Fischer, commissioner of the correctional services department, said in a statement it revised its policy "to make reasonable accommodations in the workplace when it comes to the religious beliefs and practices of its employees."
In March the U.S. Justice Department filed a similar lawsuit against the Department of Correctional Services citing Haqq's case and arguing that Americans were not required to abandon their religion when they report to work. That case is still pending.
Haqq, 53, wore the skullcap without incident for more than 10 years before he was ordered to remove it because it was not part of a sanctioned uniform.
© Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.
It’s a way of being treated differently. The inmates find they have special privileges when they convert and so do the officers. A would guess many do not follow the strict teachings of Islam and are only in it for the percs!
I’d like to pour boiling hot “Kufi” on all of them.
You must really be upset to want to do it TWICE.
i wish... outstanding pic!!!
Big question, is this NYC DOC or NYS DOC?
That´s just frigging great. The courts and civil liberties groups have gone out of thier way to stop Christians from wearing religous items, celebrating X’Mas or decorating with Christian or Judeo items. But they seem to bend over backwards for this Muslims.
Got to know what the First was about first...
I was skeptical about that part, too. They’re trying to act like it’s some precedent for a prison guard to go to work wearing a kufi, as if nobody’d ever even comment on that.
Allah’s will.
Guess this means that Jewish guards can wear a yamakha.
And Sikhs can wear their head wrap.
What next? Women correctional officers wearing burkhas?
We continually suck up to our enemies and, on bended knees, beg them to become police and prison officers.
We need to count the mosques and figure out a way to get them out of America.
Once their biomass reaches the critical level.
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