Free Republic

A Muslim officer who was fired by the North Chicago Police Department last month is suing for religious discrimination, claiming he was fired after complaining about harassment. “I risked my life so someone could sleep better. And this is not right. This is not right what they did to me,” said Ramtin Sabet. Sabet started working for the North Chicago police in 2007, and the Iranian born officer said the harassment started a few years later. […] “I would show up to calls, they’d say, ‘oh Mr. Taliban pulled up here’, I would call in lunch breaks on the radio...

By one o'clock it was all over. The police were on the roof of the bullet-riddled building, seven of the gunmen were in custody and two were dead. Spent cartridges littered the ground for hundreds of yards around the white apartment block and smoke from a grenade blast blackened its entry. On the roof were thick smears of blood from the dead and the wounded. In the kitchen of the fifth floor apartment where the gunmen had been living was more. On the white wall Arabic script read: There is no God but Allah. It had been written by one...