Posted on 07/10/2002 3:35:26 PM PDT by knighthawk
WASHINGTON, July 10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Many U.S. based Muslim and Arab organizations criticized a discriminatory court verdict depriving a mother from her child after she became a Muslim, just after the same organizations praised the decision of the Cook County police department in Illinois which allowed a Muslim deputy commissioner to wear hijab (veil) while on duty.
A South Dakota court ruled that a child be taken from his mother because she converted to Islam.
The parents of the woman filed a lawsuit against their daughter accusing her of “adopting abnormal conduct, including wearing a Muslim outfit and declaring that she became a Muslim”. They also presented to the court a photo of the mother wearing hijab.
She married an Egyptian man and was preparing to travel to Egypt with her son. The court ruled that the child’s custody goes to the mother’s parents.
The file of this case contains many anti- Muslim sentences, which indicate that the decision may not be taken depending on the best interest of the child, but rather it is based on discrimination, said Jachua Sallam, civil rights official at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Meanwhile, in Illinois, a Muslim policewoman was able to win her fight with the police department she works in, when they allowed her to wear the hijab while on duty after their initial refusal.
“The American Muslims welcome that the department has accepted to give the policewomen her religious freedom,” said Ibrahim Hoper, head of the media department in CAIR.
This case proves that that any conflicts that may appear in places where there are religious diversity can be solved if good intensions and the will to solve the problem exist, he added.
According to article 7 in the human rights law of 1964, it is illegal that business owners discriminate between their employees on the basis of their beliefs or religious activities.
The law also dictate that business owners should accept their employees religious practices if they are acceptable and are not a burden on the owner.
Many Muslim organizations in the U.S. have demanded at the beginning of the month of July that public and media pressure be imposed on the police department for its refusal to allow the policewomen to wear the hijab after she became a Muslim in January 2002.
Seperation of church and state? What next, will they introduce the sharia in the US, like they did in Malaysia?
Malaysia State Approves Strict Islamic Punishment Code
In the Netherlands there was a case where a muslim woman who worked for a court wanted to wear her hjiab in court! She filed a complaint after the judge did not allow it. A commission said she was allowed to wear it, but the judge dismissed this, pointing out to the seperation of church and the justice department. These are attempts to undermine the state to gradualy introduce their way of life. The Trojan Horses...
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It's metastasizing.
Aside from the obvious irony here that a true muslim woman wouldn't be taking a job or driving a police car, this ruling could be a dream come true for any cop who might face a brutality rap. Imagine, being allowed to conceal one's face while on duty so that no witnesses can give a positive ID!
I can't think of a single multicultural state in history that has not had to become authoritarian (e.g. Austria-Hungary) or totalitarian (e.g. the old USSR) in order to hold itself together. Lest you mention Switzerland as an exception, I would say that the three major ethnic/cultural groups in Switzerland are separated by very high mountains.
This is a problem. Could you imagine a hijab-wearing cop trying to make an arrest?
Life has gotten better in recent centuries.
Yeah!
(I am ready to convert..! Where do I go to get the little hat thing?)
The parents of the woman filed a lawsuit against their daughter accusing her of “adopting abnormal conduct, including wearing a Muslim outfit and declaring that she became a Muslim”. They also presented to the court a photo of the mother wearing hijab.
Good for them!! get the kid away from her before she can poison its mind with that pagan nonsense.
Then, try to pick them out of a mug-shot book or police line-up!
Hah!
Leni
“The American Muslims welcome that the department has accepted to give the policewomen her religious freedom,” said Ibrahim Hoper, head of the media department in CAIR.
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