Posted on 10/23/2006 1:55:42 PM PDT by rajuchor
Chicago Teen Sentenced to "Sensitivity Training" from CAIR Eighteen year-old David Huffman says he “tapped” a Muslim woman on the head, nearly dislodging her headscarf, as a “prank.” He was charged with battery, and pleaded guilty.
But instead of fining or sentencing him to jail, the judge ordered him to undergo “sensitivity training” from the foremost radical Islamic front group in the United States, at the notorious Bridgeview Mosque: ‘Prank’ gets teen lesson in tolerance from CAIR. (Hat tip: Jim C.)
David Huffman told police it was just a prank gone wrong: On April 22, at a McDonald’s in Tinley Park, he tapped a Muslim woman on the head, nearly pulling off her headscarf.
The woman, a young mother with her children, didn’t see it as harmless. She was scared and embarrassed; her faith had been attacked. She told police, and they called it battery.
But in a surprising twist, a Cook County circuit judge did not fine or jail Huffman, who pleaded guilty. He was instead ordered to undergo sensitivity training at the downtown Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization.
During the past three months, Huffman, 18, has spent 40 hours listening to and talking with Muslims across Chicagoland. He has completed required tasks that seemed ripped from reality television: watching Muslim youths play basketball, attending a 9/11 event and visiting area mosques, which Huffman called “synagogues” at the beginning of his training.
But what exactly did David Huffman learn?
When Huffman first arrived Aug. 4 at the Muslim civil rights organization’s office, his hands were shaking from nervousness, and he appeared as though he’d rather have been anywhere else. He was late, for starters. He arrived with his shoes untied and a patchy stubble, looking more like he had just stumbled out of bed than spent the better part of an hour commuting from Tinley Park.
“I’d rather not talk about it,” Huffman said of the April incident, soon after arriving. “I want to forget it.”
He eventually told his version of the events. He said he knew he was wrong, but he was confused why the woman had become so upset.
“I understood immediately after I did it. But even after I apologized, she was still so angry,” he said. “I didn’t understand that.”
Explaining that to him would be the responsibility of Veronica Zapata, the organization’s sensitivity training coordinator.
We can only hope. As for that woman's faith, what exactly is it about her faith that is so commendable? How did he knowingly attack her faith?
And that of High Strung Hysterics.
He should in the middle of the training session yell.."Submit! Submit! Heal ! Heal! Make me a sandwich!!"
For the record:
Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"
--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
You have to wonder if the same thing would have happened if it was a swastika on a synagogue type of incident
Curious. Would she have been all bent out of shape if this occurred in a Muslim country? A) The male is always right, and B) she likely would have been beaten for wandering around unaccompanied or for raising her voice to a man. Because the scarf-poker was an infidel dhimmi, however, this was obviously a hate crime against TROP. Guess he should be glad he still has a head attached to his shoulders.
WTH is going on in this country?
So...did he convert, or what??
This story is SICKENING!!
I think the main problem many see with this is not getting punished per se, but the form of the punishment.
Cheers.
I would have told the judge to go f#$k himself and taken the jail time.
I'm definitely not getting this....
Must have an incompetent lawyer. Sounds like "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" to me.
But instead of fining or sentencing him to jail, the judge ordered him to undergo “sensitivity training” from the foremost radical Islamic front group in the United States, at the notorious Bridgeview Mosque: ‘Prank’ gets teen lesson in tolerance from CAIR.
Well, he's now got a perfect excuse to go and bomb the courthouse that sent him there.
'Allah demanded I do it! Praise be to Allah!'
He'd get off due to brainwashing...
...and CAIR would be in a world of hurt.
Have Muslims already reached protected minority status?
Whatever happened to a stern lecture from the judge about mocking or degrading other religions. Instead, this idiot throws Huffman to the Islamofascists! Sheesh!
Muslims are ALWAYS angry about something. It's because they are so miserable! What I'm wondering is if what this Judge did is even legal? Can you imagine the uproar had this been a Christian and he were forced to attend church for a little "sensitivity training?" The ACLU would be wetting themselves to get to the court house to sue!
This is INSANE.
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