Posted on 10/21/2006 10:54:23 PM PDT by rajuchor
Judge Tosses Case When Muslim Refuses to Unmask in Court
The promoters of Islamic misogyny are not only active in Europe; they’re continually testing the strength of American society too: Muslim woman refuses to remove her veil in court, so judge tosses case. (Hat tip: LSD.)
And again, we see mainstream media (the Detroit Free Press) running interference for the Council on American Islamic Relations.
DETROIT - Ginnnah Muhammad of Detroit was looking for her day in court.
Instead, she said she felt as if a judge forced her to choose between her case and her religion in a small-claims dispute in Hamtramck District Court.
A devout Muslim, she wore a niqab - a scarf and veil to cover her face and head except for her eyes - Oct. 11 as she contested a rental car company’s charging her $2,750 to repair a vehicle after thieves broke into it.
Judge Paul Paruk said he needed to see her face to judge her truthfulness and gave Muhammad, 42, a choice: take off the veil when testifying or the case would be dismissed. She kept the veil on.
“I just feel so sad,” Muhammad said last week. “I feel that the court is there for justice for us. I didn’t feel like the court recognized me as a person that needed justice. I just feel I can’t trust the court.” ...
In metro Detroit, which has one of the country’s largest Muslim populations, a small minority of Muslim women - primarily those of Yemeni descent - wear the niqab, said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Paruk said that as a fact finder, he needs to see the face of a person testifying. Michigan has no rules governing what judges can do regarding religious attire of people in court, so the judges have leeway on how to run their courtrooms.
“My job in the courtroom is to make a determination as to the veracity of somebody’s claim,” he said. “Part of that, you need to identify the witness and you need to look at the witness and watch how they testify.”
Paruk said he offered to let Muhammad, who was born in the United States and converted to Islam at the age of 10, wear the veil during the proceedings except when she testified. He said this was the first time someone had come before his court wearing a niqab, and he noted that many Muslims do not consider it a religious symbol.
“I felt I was trying to accommodate her as best I could,” he said.
Walid said Paruk still violated Muhammad’s civil rights.
They lost this one, but they’ll be back.
It will be characterized as a hate crime and CAIR will demand that the judge be removed.
"if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you,"
Such a simple statement and so obviously appropriate yet many other leaders in the west have such a difficult time with logic and telling it like it is.
The cowards we have as leaders in the west will be the death of us all.
That's what jumps out at me . . . who is this masked man, anyway??? And what would the judge say if I tried to show up in court with a mask on???
awesome point!!
Well DUH!
That's just it, you nut-job.
The courts have to identify or SEE you before they can 'recognize' you.
No recognition equals no legal standing.
No legal standing equals no judgment for you.
Stop trying to use your 'religion' as a crutch to try to skirt our established laws.
Assimilate or LEAVE!
Plead your case to a judge in Mecca, lady, in the shadow of the Ka'aba. Oh, by the way, you might want to keep in mind that according to Islam your word is only worth half that of a man's.
Not by the judge. This is a good sign.
It kills me to see black Americans - who have such a vibrant culture here in the U.S. - fall for this fake religion. Every time I see some former Christian woman dressed in that hideous, hateful schmatta, I feel like screaming.
BTTT
Good on that judge.
If she can drive a car, she can take off the veil.
"*many muslims* are liars, then."
Actually it doesn't have anything to do with their religion. There's nothing in the Koran that talks about covering up women that way. It's more of a cultural thing although they seem to depend on our ignorance to make the religious claim.
Actually she was a white woman, married to a Black Muslim thug.
We have a number of lost souls such as her here in Florida. I can't imagine what would cause anybody of any color to marry these guys, but Florida now has a number of mostly white country girls flapping around in their full burkas behind the Black Muslim prison hubbies they managed to find somewhere.
"15 minutes" here in FL.
Actually, the person showing up for court could be anyone, if they are allowed to wear the veil. Could be the sister, the brother, could be carrying weapons, could be anybody.
That's why I'm against the driver's license photos wearing the veil. How are you going to know who the driver is? It could be anyone...could be a male, even.
Well, it sounds like she may have had other reasons for wanting her face covered (I hope her police record wasn't for bank robbery!).
I just got back from Spain, where I have a friend who hired a Moroccan woman to look after a country place the family has. After a few months, the woman suddenly started showing up in a full veil and also refused to feed the dogs that live on the place. She told my friend that she had recently married and her husband (an "imam" from Morocco) wanted her to wear the veil, and also not to feed the dogs because they were "unclean." These people are nuts.
For that matter, where was her keeper and what was she doing trying to testify in a court of law? Women's testimony is generally regarded as worthless in the ME.
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