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Muslim prisoners sue for millions after they were offered ham sandwiches for Ramadan
Daily Mail ^ | 26th October 2007 | PAUL SIMS

Posted on 10/26/2007 12:35:52 PM PDT by pitinkie

Scores of Muslim inmates at a high security prison are set to launch a multi-million pound claim for compensation after they were offered ham sandwiches during the holy month of Ramadan.

They say their human rights were breached when they were given a special nightly menu - drawn up to recognise their specific dietary requirements - by officers at HMP Leeds last month.

More than 200 Muslim inmates at the jail are believed to have been offered the meat which is strictly forbidden by Islam.

The sandwich was one of three options on the menu card which was created to cover the religious festival during which Muslims are required to fast during daylight.

They later complained to prison officers on duty but say they were told that the menus had been printed in error.

Yet when they opened the sandwiches, having ordered cheese, some claim they were still filled with boiled ham.

They are now launching legal action, insisting that their human rights were breached and could each be entitled to up to £10,000 in compensation if they win their case at court.

One Muslim inmate, a 28-year-old who was serving a 16-week sentence for driving whilst disqualified, said: 'When I opened my meal that night I found I'd been given a ham sandwich. I'd asked for cheese.

'It was a breach of my human rights and I want compensation.'

He claimed that some inmates were so hungry they ended up eating the sandwiches.

The prison denied that any Muslim prisoners had been given ham sandwiches but admitted there had been a mistake when the menus were printed.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: 'An inappropriate menu card was printed during Ramadan. This mistake was rectified immediately.

'Appropriate menu options for the Iftaar evening meal were available throughout Ramadan.

'Prison Service guidelines state that prisoners must have a diet which meets the requirements of their religion.'

It comes as 16 Muslim inmates at Leeds Prison prepare to launch a separate legal case over claims of mistreatment, including being given food that is forbidden by their religion.

They are expected to claim at a hearing next year that they were given meat which was not halal.

Kate Maynard, from law firm Hickman and Rose Solicitors who is representing some of the men, said: 'One of the issues they are worried about is that they were being told food was halal when it wasn't.

'They are taking this to court to try to change conditions in the prison and make conditions better.'

Last year the Prison Service was forced to apologise to Muslim inmates at a category B jail after a kitchen worker was caught throwing ham into halal curries.

Prisoners at HMP Blakenhurst in Worcestershire each received a written apology.

The inmate behind the attack at the prison, which houses 1,070 offenders, was observed throwing tinned ham into curries destined for Muslim inmates and suspended from his job in the kitchen.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: angrymuslims; inmates; islamisasislamdoes; nopretexttoosmall; ukmuslims; warisnothellitspork
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To: pitinkie

Damn...give’m bread, water and rice. What is this with a “prison menu”?


21 posted on 10/26/2007 12:56:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: pitinkie; Vor Lady
Oh Brother, this is one the stupidest things I’ve heard.
I hope the court tells them to ‘put their big panties on and deal’.
22 posted on 10/26/2007 12:57:50 PM PDT by Bunny_with_a_switchblade (I'm sorry,do I know you?)
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To: pitinkie

LOL. I do a ministry in prison. It is turkey and chicken sausages, “ham” and the like, always, never ham. Freaks some of them out at first though cause they think it’s ham.


23 posted on 10/26/2007 12:59:18 PM PDT by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: pitinkie

Is it just me or does it seem like when Muzzies aren’t blowing people up, they are whining about how other people are picking on them?


24 posted on 10/26/2007 1:01:06 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Sacajaweau

“Special nightly menu”, just like a hotel.


25 posted on 10/26/2007 1:01:16 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

And to videotape the act, beam it around the world, and then dump the head and body in an alley.

But France wants to prosecute the US for “torture” under international law.


26 posted on 10/26/2007 1:01:54 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Greg F

“I can’t believe it’s not ham!”


27 posted on 10/26/2007 1:02:25 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: MarineBrat

There was also the outrage over the nation being called Turkey like the bird.


28 posted on 10/26/2007 1:02:59 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: pitinkie

That’s great


29 posted on 10/26/2007 1:03:20 PM PDT by wastedyears (A cosmic castaway)
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To: pitinkie

send em some possum!!!


30 posted on 10/26/2007 1:05:10 PM PDT by the right reverend
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To: pitinkie

Do murderers have rights?


31 posted on 10/26/2007 1:29:06 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: lilylangtree

Over in Europe they have alot of rights!


32 posted on 10/26/2007 1:36:22 PM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: woollyone

These a**holes are being treated better than the soldiers who just returned to Britain from Afghanistan. The barracks that the young single soldiers are crammed into are CONDEMNED buildings right next to Heathrow...Britain wouldn’t dream of putting prisoners in these barracks, yet they don’t bat an eye at stuffing the young men who are fighting for these bastards’ freedom there. Oh, I feel some “ham” coming up in my throat, gotta go blow chunks...


33 posted on 10/26/2007 1:46:33 PM PDT by wazoo1031
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To: pitinkie

And the Brits cave once more.


34 posted on 10/26/2007 1:50:22 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: pitinkie

The Brit government will cave to this in 3 seconds flat.


35 posted on 10/26/2007 1:56:56 PM PDT by navyguy (Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: pitinkie

“They are now launching legal action, insisting that their human rights were breached and could each be entitled to up to £10,000 in compensation if they win their case at court.”

£10,000? £10,000! Hey you guys, you ordered cheese and got ham. That’s got to be worth at least £20,000! Use my lawyer, at “Dewey, Srewum, and Howe”.


36 posted on 10/26/2007 1:56:57 PM PDT by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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To: pitinkie

bump


37 posted on 10/26/2007 1:58:08 PM PDT by VOA
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To: pitinkie

Let’s give ‘em millions — of hankies to sob into.


38 posted on 10/26/2007 2:23:43 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: pitinkie

39 posted on 10/26/2007 2:36:26 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (The WOT will end when pork products are weaponized)
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To: pitinkie
One of these days I'm gonna get one of those backback waterguns and fill it with liquified pork and go down to the mosque parking lot...
PS I just ate some *great* proscuitto.
40 posted on 10/26/2007 2:42:37 PM PDT by jack_napier (Bob? Gun.)
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