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Woman sues over headscarf
SA News24 TV ^ | 12/6/07 | AP

Posted on 12/06/2007 11:19:26 AM PST by casino66

Los Angeles - A Muslim woman arrested for riding a commuter train without a valid ticket has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States, claiming her religious freedom was violated when she was forced to remove her headscarf when she was taken to jail.

Jameelah Medina also said she was intimidated by a deputy who accused her of being a terrorist and called Islam an "evil" religion, according to the suit filed on Wednesday in US District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: lawyers; muslim; muslimwomen; southafrica
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To: casino66

I feel discriminated too I want to build a Church in Pakistan and somehow (I could be wrong), I feel they won’t let me because I am Christian.

She can go back to where ever it is she came from so no one will “harass” her.


41 posted on 12/06/2007 11:56:59 AM PST by rbosque ("To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: Osage Orange

Poor as in incompetent?............


42 posted on 12/06/2007 11:59:09 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger

Hehehe....yeah that too!!


43 posted on 12/06/2007 12:01:21 PM PST by Osage Orange (Deer...It's What's For Dinner)
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To: casino66
Criminal playing the race card.
44 posted on 12/06/2007 12:06:58 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Rudy,Romney,McCain, Huckabee will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
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To: casino66
Since the looney left is always looking to foreign governments for the answers -- California being in the top three --

The Sharia law in Nigeria calls for this form of punishment -- the amputation of the limbs of thieves.

The enlightened and smarter than everyone else left needs to see this up close and personal... Then maybe they will stfu.

45 posted on 12/06/2007 12:07:53 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: Graybeard58
"Bill O’reilly who considers FR a hate site."

Bill O'Reilly is an entertainer... therefore, a liberal. Therefore, someone to be ignored... as I've done for the past 4 years.

Most in talk radio and tv are liberal entertainers.

Steven Colbert is at least honest about spoofing conservatives. The rest are just a* holes.

46 posted on 12/06/2007 12:12:15 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: LouAvul
“What’s “BO” btw?”

I always thought BO was about a person who needed a bath.

47 posted on 12/06/2007 12:12:28 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Rudy,Romney,McCain, Huckabee will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
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To: aroundabout
I don’t think they see colors either.

They only see in two diminsions too.

48 posted on 12/06/2007 12:14:34 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Ouderkirk
“Impose a Sharia punishment on her for stealing. /sarc”

and also for being in a vehicle with males who are not her relatives.

49 posted on 12/06/2007 12:16:25 PM PST by alecqss
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To: driftdiver
“She’s a liar. They all are...

Geeze, I thought he meant thieves.

50 posted on 12/06/2007 12:17:44 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a Liberal hanging from every tree, He wouldn't have created so much rope!)
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To: casino66

I think we have a professional victim here, or at least someone who is very much vested in her victimhood. See: http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/mmca/temp_fn.asp?volumeFN=21&issueFN=02&typeFN=f


51 posted on 12/06/2007 12:26:56 PM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: driftdiver
"And if thats the best joke you have then you must be a liberal."

C'mon, Why can't we all just get along?, Let's have a group hug, ok, and then...and then maybe we could sing a chorus or 2 of Kum Bi Ya? Waddaya say...hah?

52 posted on 12/06/2007 12:38:47 PM PST by aroundabout
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To: aroundabout

“Why can’t we all just get along?”

Because people making remarks like that hurt everyone on FR.


53 posted on 12/06/2007 12:39:42 PM PST by driftdiver
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To: casino66

Was she traveling without a male relative? Big no-no in Sharia. 39 lashes for that one!


54 posted on 12/06/2007 12:40:50 PM PST by BJClinton (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: driftdiver

Oh don’t give me that, your a racistbigothomophobe.


55 posted on 12/06/2007 12:42:23 PM PST by aroundabout
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To: casino66

Now I know what argument to use if I am deadbeat riding on a train without a ticket...


56 posted on 12/06/2007 2:43:53 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: casino66

Doesn’t the deputy have freedom of speech? Can’t he give his opinion? Or is speech going to limited based on the sensitivity of some very sensitive people? BTW, if this women is so concerned with her religion, why didn’t she f******** BUY A TICKET?


57 posted on 12/06/2007 2:51:10 PM PST by Jabba the Nutt (Just laugh at them!)
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To: Bobibutu

You mean if we go further down the road than Britain? Hard to do! I pray we don’t go down that road...


58 posted on 12/07/2007 10:32:11 AM PST by wazoo1031
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