Posted on 12/04/2010 7:38:53 AM PST by bjorn14
A University of Colorado student who started wearing hijab after converting to Islam is fighting the Boulder County Jail's insistence that she remove her headscarf for a booking photo, saying that to do so would violate her religious beliefs.
Maria Hardman, 19, of Boulder, reported to the jail Wednesday to do the paperwork for a two-day work crew sentence that was supposed to be served this weekend. But when a jail detention officer told her to remove her headscarf for her mug shot, she balked.
"It's stated in the Koran in two or three places that believing women should wear the veil, except in the company of close family members," she said.
Hardman said she spent three hours at the jail while her lawyer tried to convince officials to let her take the picture with her scarf. She eventually was allowed to leave the jail without taking a picture at all. She said she was told she would be found in contempt of court for being out of compliance with her sentence.
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I guess she hasn't read the part of the Koran that forbids followers from drinking alcohol.
She should have been jailed in contempt of court until she took the mug shot, though I’m not sure why a hijab would prevent a mug shot. Her face is uncovered, and officials could move her scarf to uncover her ears and cheeks for the side shot.
I’m sure she’d be as steadfast in her beliefs if she knew that her male relatives would arrive at her house with clubs to discuss her honor.
Is the judge considering Shariah law before rending his decision?
If not, he’s a racist Islamophobe!
/sarc
“Hardman’s blood-alcohol content after the accident was 0.19, more than two times the legal limit.”
Who is she kidding??
As someone pointed out in the comments thread at the source:
Why do people who put themselves above reproach never think to lock their Facebooks first?
http://www.facebook.com/maria.hardman
“Activities: Running, Traveling, Hiking, Scootering, Reading, Cooking, Skiing, Horseback Riding, Hookahing, Partying and Lovin’, Camping, Drinking, and 1 more”
“Interests: Traveling, Partying, Ummm See Above”
Lots of stereotypical college kid swearing and references to crazy/awesome nights and partying. My favorite update, “permadrinkin ;)” with a self-reply of “Supposed to say ‘permadrunkin’”.
Read more: Muslim woman fights Boulder jail to keep hijab for mug shot - Boulder Daily Camera http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_16773482#ixzz17AcyQVSf
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You are correct. If she wants to play the muslim card, let her be judged according to the hadiths and receive 99 lashes or something like that.
Silly Wench!
Silly F-N *religion*
It’s not a religion, it’s sort of a cult, but worse, what the hell is it anyway?
If, as a male, I wore a rag on my head, they would have removed it for me!
No doubt in my mind whatsoever.
I haven’t read the replies, but I say:
‘If you want to wear that hijab bi+c#, move to a country that requires it to be worn’
Problem solved. BUT, I bet you won’t like it there.
Okay let me get this straight.....
She Converted to Islam about 3 years ago (Check)
She was Drinking (Check)
**Okay so it was “spiked” Punch but in Islam it’s still Drinking**
She was Driving (Check)
She was not accompanied by a Male (Check) at any point so...
If she was in some Islamic Country right now she would have been Stoned, Whipped, Shot or whatever kind of Torture they do for such Criminal Offenses.
Now little girl take the D&#$ Headscarf off and get your Photo taken
who is that?
ADJUST or LEAVE.. and take your bombs with you!
True religions oppose evil. Islam embodies evil.
But Obama, his comrades in the government, academia, the media, and the PC crowd in general all tell us that Islam is a religion deserving respect, and protected by the First Amendment. I imagine that they don’t realize that the the Ayatollah Khomeini once said, “Islam is politics or it is nothing”. They also probably don’t realize that sharia law (so-called “Holy Law”) “deals extensively with the acquisition and exercise of power, the nature of legitimacy and authority, the duties of ruler and subject, in a word, with what we in the West would call constitutional law and political philosophy.” (1) Islam does not recognize secular law, such as our own Constitution. The ideal for Islam is to combine or merge the state with “religion” in such a manner that religious freedom and individual rights are denied. It is fundamentally at odds with our Constitution.
Islam is a totalitarian political ideology which teaches hatred, discrimination and barbaric violence against Jews, Gentiles, Infidels, Buddhists, Americans —— even against other Muslims. There are similarities between Islam and Nazism. Allowing mosques or sharia courts in the United States is similar to tolerating outposts of Hitler’s National Socialism during World War II. We often hear about “radical” Islam versus “moderate” Muslims. This is a bogus dichotomy. There is no such thing as “sort of” Muslim. People either adhere to Islam or they don’t. We are also told sometimes that Muslims are a race. This is totally wrong; there are Muslims of various races in most countries.
Islam belongs in the 7th century. If Muslims would wake up, reject Islam, and join the 21st century, the world would be far more peaceful.
Congress should identify Islam as a political ideology which is subversive to our Constitution. Mosques and sharia law should be outlawed. Muslim immigration to the U.S. should be halted. Muslims should not serve in our civilian government or the military.
99% of terrorist attacks over the past few decades are the work of Muslims, and they continue on a daily basis around the world. See:www.thereligionofpeace.com for the long bloody list. It is abundantly clear that profiling should be used, but instead the government (TSA, etc.) has spent the last 9 years pretending that 300 million Americans and millions of other travelers are equally suspect. The stupidity of the government is beyond contempt.
(1) Source: The Crisis of Islam, by Bernard Lewis - a widely recognized expert and scholar, Professor Emeritus at Princeton.
I’m sure she would, but then she would sue them afterwards and it would settle for $12,000,000 - which would promptly be wired to Hamas.
LOL!
She blew a .19 and is claiming she didnt know she was drinking alcohol.
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