Posted on 10/06/2007 5:24:29 PM PDT by Alouette
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. --A Muslim inmate is suing a southwest Missouri jail, claiming the facility's administrators violated his religious rights by feeding him sandwiches with a pork product concealed in them.
Odell M. Edwards, who as a Muslim is not allowed to eat pork, filed his lawsuit against the Greene County Justice Center this past week in U.S. District Court in Springfield. Jail officials maintain that the jelly is made with fruit pectin extracted from plants. Pectin is a natural substance that thickens jams and jellies.
The sandwiches in question were served to Edwards and other Muslim inmates during the holy month of Ramadan. Jail Director C.E. Wells said officials consulted with a Muslim spiritual adviser when planning the Ramadan menu, and the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were preapproved.
But Edwards said the jelly in the sandwiches contained gelatin, which is often extracted from pig tissue. He appears to be seeking $250,000 per day for the period in which he was served the jelly.
Edwards, a federal prisoner, is awaiting trial in Springfield on drug charges. He's been an inmate since April 2006.
It's not clear whether the court will dismiss the lawsuit as unfounded - which is what happens to many such cases - or allow it to proceed.
Edwards said in a court filing that jail guards told him on Sept. 12 that his meals contained pork and had for some time. Edwards filed a request for remedy with the jail, asking to see the jelly ingredients and demanding a cultured cook or a dietitian that handled Muslim and pork-free foods.
"I would also like to be compensated for the foul act!" he wrote.
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If the inmate doesn't like it, Oh' well Screw them
BTW, jelly does not routinely contain gelatin. Fruit pectin is the star in jellymaking. I do know some folks who put up figs with strawberry flavored jello ... but that is not an incredient used in commercially made jelly.
Just show him the jelly product with the kosher certification.
Eat whatever is served or starve......your choice you idiot Mooselimb.
Yep, stay out of prison and you can eat all the moon god restricted crap you want, otherwise SHUT UP AND EAT or starve. Makes me no never mind.
Thanks for the ping.
I’ll try to remember to send Odell a holiday gift pack of Jimmy Dean products. Since the local Islamic Center packed up and moved, Odell won’t have many friends around to cheer him up.
It’s JAIL, buddy. You should have had panties on your head.
If you can’t do the rind (pork) then don’t do the crime.
That’s what I thought too.
Excellent. Dumb MoHAMadan. Bacon to break his fast of Ramadamadingdong.
There’s no pork in KY jelly.
“He SHOULD have been fed TO the pigs.”
What do you have against the pigs?
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Lev 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
I am a Catholic. I’m not supposed to eat meat on Friday. I will gladly testify that, if I were in jail, and they gave me meat, I WOULD NOT SUE.
I am a member of PETA.......People Eating Tasty Animals and if they didn’t serve me meat I will be mad. Beef, pork, fish, elk, venison, cabrito. Meat please.
Would somebody please explain to the prisoner that there is nothing “foul” about eating pork? The taboo on pork is merely a primitive culture’s attempt to overcome what economists call an “incentive trap.” I.e., pork is a highly desirable product, so there’s a strong incentive to raise pigs. Where, however, water is scarce, pigs consume too much of that commodity for the good of the community. Thus, religious and political leaders create a “taboo” around the eating of pork. It’s much easier to instill a taboo into the population than it is to explain economics to them.
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