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Police ripped off Muslim girl’s hijab
Daily Times Pakistan ^ | 4/22/06 | khalid hasan

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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hijab; lawbreakers; muslimwomen; rop; trop
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1 posted on 04/22/2006 6:53:59 PM PDT by voletti
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To: HiJinx; Spiff; idratherbepainting; AZHSer; Sabertooth; Marine Inspector; A Navy Vet; ...

Here send to all MM to let them have a good laugh.


2 posted on 04/22/2006 6:55:34 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: voletti

Let Christians wear crosses and worship freely in muslim countries, and we'll give the whole hijab thing a second look, 'kay?


3 posted on 04/22/2006 6:55:43 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: voletti
the racist vigilante group the Minutemen

Our own border anarchists must be very proud to have such fine allies as the Pakistan daily times.
4 posted on 04/22/2006 6:56:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: SlowBoat407

a hijab in jail would be similar to a belt..a no no


5 posted on 04/22/2006 6:57:07 PM PDT by georgia2006
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To: voletti

Can't do the time...


6 posted on 04/22/2006 6:59:10 PM PDT by flada (Posting in a manner reminiscent of Jen-gis Kahn.)
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To: SlowBoat407

"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.


7 posted on 04/22/2006 7:00:46 PM PDT by Battleofbritain (")
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To: voletti

Oh my God! Did someone see her unclothed hair? The humanity!


8 posted on 04/22/2006 7:02:03 PM PDT by blueminnesota
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To: blueminnesota

I am getting verklempt .. *sniffle*


9 posted on 04/22/2006 7:02:30 PM PDT by AntiGuv (The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
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To: voletti
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.
10 posted on 04/22/2006 7:06:42 PM PDT by TheHound (You would be paranoid too - if everyone was out to get you.)
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To: voletti

>>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


11 posted on 04/22/2006 7:09:53 PM PDT by gondramB (He who angers you, in part, controls you. But he may not enjoy what the rest of you does about it.)
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To: voletti

The view from America's WoT ally.


12 posted on 04/22/2006 7:10:48 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain)
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To: SlowBoat407
Yep

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13 posted on 04/22/2006 7:10:51 PM PDT by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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To: SlowBoat407
Let Christians wear crosses and worship freely in muslim countries, and we'll give the whole hijab thing a second look, 'kay?

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.

14 posted on 04/22/2006 7:14:55 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: voletti

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.....


15 posted on 04/22/2006 7:17:28 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: TheHound
"the racist vigilante group the Minutemen."

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.

16 posted on 04/22/2006 7:19:34 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
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To: Delta 21

That picture defines the battle.


17 posted on 04/22/2006 7:21:17 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: Eagles6

18 posted on 04/22/2006 7:22:06 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
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To: voletti

Four years, is that all?


19 posted on 04/22/2006 7:26:56 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulfBeachClub)
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To: voletti

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?


20 posted on 04/22/2006 7:27:30 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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