Woman sues over headscarf

SA News24 TV ^ | 12/6/07 | AP

[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.

[casino66]

Poor lawyers are everywhere. We don't have a category for 'stupid news' which this is.

[LouAvul]

She’s a liar. They all are. Besides, they don’t feel pain the way we do.

[Red Badger]

I’ve never met a poor lawyer.........

[Ouderkirk]

Impose a Sharia punishment on her for stealing. /sarc

[End Times Sentinel]

Roberts "accused Medina of being a terrorist and supporting terrorism. He stated that Muslims are evil ... and that the United States was in Iraq at God's direction to squash evil," read the suit.

Isn't the truth some sort of defense?

[South40]

It’s LA, land of kooks where she knows she’ll find a sympathetic jury.

[Pistolshot]

Impose a Sharia punishment on her for stealing. /sarc

With the constant persecution by radical Muslims against people who 'offend' them and call for their death, it might change a lot of Muslim attitudes if the punishment fit the crime, according to their religious beliefs, of course.

[Emmett McCarthy]

So what we have here is some muslim broad who wanted a free ride and she got one - to jail, but then she didn’t like the dress code. Too bad, too sad. Did they put her in a cell that didn’t face Mecca, too? If you want to be a muslim, go live in a muslim country. That ain’t Los Angeles which everybody knows is an Hispanic country.

[driftdiver]

“She’s a liar. They all are. Besides, they don’t feel pain the way we do.”

Thats a silly statement. Trying for a hateful comment that might be quoted on BO’s show?

[Bobibutu]

This will be one to watch - it will show us how far down the road to submission we are or not.

[Bobibutu]

This will be one to watch - it will show us how far down the road to submission we are or not.

[casino66]

They are probably few and far between, but they are out there. He is working for the ACLU so he probably could not get hired by a real firm.

[edcoil]

“riding a commuter train without a valid ticket has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States”

So she is a thief.

[Snoopers-868th]

Impose a Sharia punishment on her for stealing. /sarc

And after that for not wearing her headscarf./s

[KarlInOhio]

If she had been allowed to keep her scarf and hanged herself with it, I bet CAIR would be protesting the LAPD for that too.

[Psycho_Bunny]

...said she was intimidated by a deputy who accused her of being a terrorist and called Islam an "evil" religion...

The deputy was completely out of line:  Islam is NOT a religion.

[Emmett McCarthy]

If only she were an Hispanic, lesbian, muslim...

[sure_fine]

“”If federal prisons can do that, there is no reason that San Bernardino sheriff’s can’t also,” he said. “”

yes there is, it is not HIS policy in HIS jail

[rocksblues]

Bingo!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

News alert to Burka Betty!....Your not in Muslimland and you have to pay for train rides here.