Muslim woman who says veil cost her chance to pursue claim gets new court hearing in Michigan

International Herald Tribune ^ | January 24, 2007 | AP/iht.com

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HAMTRAMCK, Michigan: A Muslim woman whose small-claims case was tossed out after she refused to remove her veil while testifying in court has been granted a new hearing.

Ginnnah Muhammad, 42, of Detroit, plans to wear a niqab

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CAIR alert. Heard this locally on WJR radio and see that it now international news.

[RightWhale]

Let's hear from her mufti, not that whacky political action group.

[stm]

She probably spared the courtroom from seeing a face like this"

[sgtbono2002]

When in Rome, Do as the Romans.

What would happen if I went to a bank in a Lone Ranger mask?

[Xenalyte]

Ginnnah

Illegal tripling of mid-name consonant. Penalty!

[wastedyears]

Nuts

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Answer: A Muslim woman.

Carnac: What is a veiled threat?

[Maceman]

All the defense needs to do is have a male witness contradict her, since in a Sharia court a man's testimony is worth four times as much as a woman's (so I've read.)

[Robert DeLong]

U.S. law trumps any religious conviction. The only consideration is, is it U.S. law? That I am not sure of. If not and it is made law, does her religious belifs get grandfathered in? Damn it it is time to send all Muslims packing to contries that share their religious beliefs.

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Make that, it = it is.  

I should have also mentioned that in Hamtramck, Michigan the city council allowed the five-times-per-day Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast over Hamtramck's loudspeakers as they voted unanimously in April 2004 to allow it.  There were many threads here on this topic.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

It could just as well have been her. After all she has a good reason to wear a veil.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Maybe not. Just saw she was 42, so there is a 100 year age difference.

[VOA]

A Muslim woman whose small-claims case was tossed out after she
refused to remove her veil while testifying in court has been
granted a new hearing.

So I guess that "face" your accusers only meant you'd be allowed
to see them.
But they might be covered with a sheet?
(/sarc)

Didn't we grow past this Bravo Sierra when we outlawed wearing hoods
in public during the years of the resurgent KKK?

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Prime Minister Tony Blair said at the time that veils were seen as a "mark of separation."

Duh.

[HitmanLV]

I have taken to calling these types of head wear 'masks.'

[San Jacinto]

Why who could expect a Court to uphold the right of one to confront witnesses and have effective cross-examination against the wonderful traditions of such a noble religion as Islam ? -- especially in Michiganistan. Cair just needs to make a list of all the things we do wrong so we can correct them all at once. So much more convenient than this piece meal method.

[LC HOGHEAD]

http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u245/barry27614/?action=view&current=pelosi-hot-air.jpg

[Publius6961]

Ginnnah Muhammad, 42, of Detroit, plans to wear a niqab — a scarf and veil that covers her head and face, leaving only the eyes visible — at her Feb. 21 hearing.

How will that change anything?
Unless she gets the "special privilege" of instant fingerprint identification (assuming she would submit to that!)?

[squarebarb]

then her opposition in this court case should wear all veils or masks too.

If she can wear one so can everybody else. They should all come to court with sheets over their heads and little eye-holes cut out.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Cair just needs to make a list of all the things we do wrong

1. American non-muslims breath air.

2. See #1 above.