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To: weegee
Not just a troll, a banned troll back with a new name.

Yeah, and did you see how he claimed that his identity was based on his deathless prose, not his screen name? Unfortunately, there are so many condescending twits on the internet, that it's hard to identify him just on that!

341 posted on 01/30/2002 12:21:45 PM PST by NYCVirago
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Check out this article from the CAIR site about a similar Florida case:

Head covering keeps woman from getting ID photo taken

(By CINDI BROWNFIELD, Daytona Beach News-Journal, 1/24/2002)

Najat Tamim-Muhammad considers herself a deeply religious woman. So devout, in fact, that it may keep her from getting a Florida driver's license.

Tamim-Muhammad, 41, a practicing Muslim, is battling the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles over the agency's requirement that she remove her head covering, a scarf called the "hijab," for her photograph on a state-issued identification card. State law, which also applies to driver's licenses, requires "a full-face photograph."

"To take it off would be the equivalent of some other woman being forced to remove her blouse," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic advocacy group.

Practicing Muslim women are required by their religion to keep all but their face and hands covered while in public...


357 posted on 01/30/2002 1:24:02 PM PST by NYCVirago
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