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Civil rights organization files lawsuit against Minnesota prison (CAIR)
Meadville Tribune ^ | October 10, 2023 | CNHI News Service

Posted on 10/10/2023 9:42:22 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA

WASECA, Minn. — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization filed a lawsuit last week against the federal women’s prison in Waseca for violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) complaint against the prison requests declaratory and injunctive relief for an incarcerated Somali-American Muslim woman who was photographed after her hijab was removed, then forced to carry that photo on her ID card.

“Mrs. (Muna) Jama was often threatened if she did not comply with orders to remove her hijab — including threats to cut off her communication with her children,” CAIR legal fellow Aya Beydoun stated in a press release. “The hijab is a sacred part of Mrs. Jama’s identity and her connection to God. No one should be forced to choose between their faith and the ability to speak to their children.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cair; domesticterrorism; domesticterrorists; minnesota; mooslim; prison; vermin
Another Somali vermin
1 posted on 10/10/2023 9:42:22 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: ConservativeInPA
"The hijab is a sacred part of Mrs. Jama’s identity and her connection to God."

Prove it. The Koran says nothing about head coverings being sacred, so I've heard.
2 posted on 10/10/2023 9:48:30 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ConservativeInPA

She can always be shipped to a country where they’ll stone her for her crimes.


3 posted on 10/10/2023 9:55:14 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ConservativeInPA

Screw CAIR.


4 posted on 10/10/2023 9:56:04 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Wrong! Islam is not Sacred. It incorporates incorrectly the Idea of the Sacred which it bowwowed from Judaism and Christianity, and them co-opted it, and used it to justify the creation of a ruthless and murderous ideology that appeals to and energizes the very basest and cruelest human instincts to drive men to slaughter and conquest. Ban the hijab nationwide. When Christians and Jews can walk around Mecca with Crosses and Magen David’s, she can put it back on. While you’re at it ban CAIR in the Land of the Free. America is the antithesis of Islam, which means: Slavery. “Submission” my ass! Their claim that Islam teaches a loving submission to “Allah” is a Lie. It’s not submission when a sword is coming down on your neck.


5 posted on 10/10/2023 9:59:07 AM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees )
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To: Telepathic Intruder
The Koran says nothing about head coverings being sacred, so I've heard.

I suspect it actually comes from other religious traditions:

1 Corinthians 11:2-6
2 I praise you[a] because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you. 3 But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman,[b] and God is the head of Christ. 4 Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered disgraces his head. 5 But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head. 6 For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should cover her head.

It’s rare to see Christian women (non Orthodox) wear a head coverings today, but it was fairly common when I was a child.

6 posted on 10/10/2023 9:59:14 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Muslims in America must immediately return to their nations of origin to fight Islamic extremism.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

That seems to refer to women praying, not being photographed while incarcerated. Or any other time. Modesty and humility are important of course, but taken to extremes like Muslims do with their women is unsupported anywhere, I think.


7 posted on 10/10/2023 10:24:38 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Correct. I just suspect the whole head covering thing is older that Islam. Muslims draw on multiple sources to twist into an incoherent belief system.


8 posted on 10/10/2023 10:30:55 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Muslims in America must immediately return to their nations of origin to fight Islamic extremism.)
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Ancient Egyptians left depictions of other Middle Easterners wearing head coverings. Good for masking blowing desert dust. There are Old Testament passages noting the wearing of head covering as a symbol of mourning or repentance.


9 posted on 10/10/2023 10:43:03 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

‘Civil rights’

IOW either anti-American, anti-white or both.


10 posted on 10/10/2023 10:49:36 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: ConservativeInPA

ANOTHER TARGET SELF—IDENTIFIED.


11 posted on 10/10/2023 12:27:52 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ConservativeInPA
Are there male guards at a woman's prisons?

The four major Sunni schools of thought (Hanafi, Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali) hold by consensus that it is obligatory for women to cover their hair, and the entire body except her face and hands, while in the presence of people of the opposite sex other than close family members.

12 posted on 10/10/2023 12:31:07 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Do they let Sikh prisoners carry their required ceremonial daggers in prison? No? Next!!


13 posted on 10/10/2023 2:08:43 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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