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
"Oh, the inanity!"
This guy says white, Latino and Muslum. I hate to tell him but white is one of the only 3 colors in the world. Black and yellow are the other two. Latino and Muslum are nationalities or in the case of Muslum a religion.
Oh! The other battle. Both fundamental. And the appeasers are still here. Nothing changes, there is nothing new under the sun.
Nice to see a balanced, unbiased article from the world press.
Actually, it's not all that different from our own MSM...
Mark
Actually, I'm very much of the belief that if you protest, you must show your face as well.
Mark
Geez!
Good thing that they didn't de-pants her and get to view her mutilated genitals striken by her father, in the name of allah, the greatest!
Geez!
Good thing that they didn't de-pants her and get to view her mutilated genitals striken by her father, in the name of allah, the greatest!
You saw that, too. I was thinking that they should praise Allah that the police didn't put the Panties Of Ultimate Shame on their noggins.
In fairness to them, if they had been even semi-literate in English, they would have realized that they were attempting to squeeze three or four actual paragraphs into that one paragraph.
"...protest against the racist vigilante group the Minutemen."
I belong to the Jeffersonian Vigilantes...
Racist baiting is so passe...
Support the Minutemen...citizens and patriots.
I see they have been consorting with the liberals and ACLU again... /s
"They depict her as actually TOUCHING Mohammed....."
Giving Mo' some hijab?
"Latino and Muslum are nationalities or in the case of Muslum a religion."
I-slum is a terrorist organozation...never was a religion
Daily Times Pakistan... New York Times...
Separated at birth?
Any what would happen if a Christian went around wearing a large crucifix in Pakistan?
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