Posted on 09/05/2007 5:52:52 AM PDT by jdm
An Anaheim woman filed a federal lawsuit against the Orange County Sheriff's Department today, claiming her religious rights were violated when deputies forced her to remove her hijab, or head scarf.
Deputies insisted Souhair Khatib, 33, who is Muslim; remove her scarf when she was being booked into a county jail in connection with a probation violation. Islam dictates that women must wear the hijab, which covers a woman's hair and neck, for reasons of modesty.
Khatib was seen by deputies and other men from her mosque without her covering, causing her extreme emotional distress, her lawsuit says.
"For Souhair, to have her head uncovered in public – particularly in the presence of men who are not part of her immediate family – is a serious breach of faith and a deeply humiliating and defiling experience," the suit says.
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Khatib, a U.S. citizen who emigrated from Lebanon, along with her husband, Amro Khatib, 32, were in Orange County Superior Court's north courthouse on Nov. 1, 2006, to seek an extension on their community service. The couple had pleaded guilty in June 2006 to a misdemeanor violation of welfare fraud and were sentenced to three years probation and ordered to complete 30 days of community service.
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They hate the West. Why are they here ?
Stealing...according to her “RELIGION”, aren’t we supposed to cut her hands off????????
The couple had pleaded guilty in June 2006 to a misdemeanor violation of welfare fraud and were sentenced to three years probation and ordered to complete 30 days of community service.
Omar Ahmad stated… "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant”.
Modesty has nothing to do with it – oppression has.
Of course, it’s a sacrament!
I’m still working out all the privileges of the Great Leader with respect to college cheerleaders.
Back to Lebanon for you and your partner in theft and deception. (Take along the crooks at the ACLU with you.)
It’s jail, not church.
Welfare fraud. If you want the taxpayers gifts, then follow the laws of the native taxpayers country. Otherwise please leave and go to a country which wont remove your hijab.
What a bunch of bogus crap!
Your post expresses how I feel.
So it is a sin not to cover her hair and neck, but welfare fraud is okay? Such a weird religion.
“The couple had pleaded guilty in June 2006 to a misdemeanor violation of welfare fraud...
Does her religion say anything against welfare fraud?”
it is encouraged against the infidel, don’t ya know
should’ve been prosecuted as a hate crime
“Khatib was seen by deputies and other men from her mosque without her covering, causing her extreme emotional distress”
No doubt causing them extreme distress as well. Why do muslim women wear veils? Because paper bags aren’t available.
Good point! :-)
If she insists that the law must adhere to her religion, then we must insist on carrying out punishment as her religion spells it out.
“Whenever a Christian wants to do something of a religious nature, the ACLU comes down on the Christian on the basis of Separation of Church and State.”
This, of course, is not always true, even though some of us like to pretend it is. I don’t agree with much of what the ACLU does, but it’s patently false that they’re always against Christians.
—The ACLU recently won against Rhode Island prison officials who told a Christian prisoner that he couldn’t preach at services any more.
—In Virginia, Stafford County tried to ban a church from holding baptisms in a public park section of a river. The ACLU got that one reversed.
—In Indiana, Washington, and Nevada the ACLU went to court for Christian ministers and congregations who wanted to preach or demonstrate on public sidewalks, including in Las Vegas (where they need all the preaching they can get).
—The ACLU of New Mexico joined with the American Family Association to free street preacher Shawn Miller from the Roosevelt County jail. He has been arrested for preaching on a street corner.
—The ACLU interceded in Massachusetts when school officials suspended students handing out candy canes with religious messages and when Rhode Island denied carolers permission to sing Christmas carols at a women’s prison on Christmas Eve.
The list goes on and on.
Really?
“good point...how did she get citizenship in the first place?”
I would assume the same way any other legal immigrant is allowed to get citizenship.
The couple had pleaded guilty in June 2006 to a misdemeanor violation of welfare fraud
By the beard of their false prophet! That is a good question!
WAIT!
“remove her scarf when she was being booked into a county jail in connection with a probation violation. snip
Khatib was seen by deputies and other men from her mosque without her covering”
Other men from her mosque???? Why were these men at the jail? Were they also being booked????????
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