Posted on 10/24/2017 6:57:37 AM PDT by Simon Green
The convicted terrorist known as the “underwear bomber” — who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound jet on Christmas in 2009 — says his constitutional rights are being violated at a federal prison in Colorado, where he’s allegedly being forced to eat food forbidden by his Muslim faith.
In a lawsuit filed last week in Colorado federal court, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab claims he’s being housed in long-term solitary confinement at the 425-inmate supermax prison in Florence, and has been harassed by white supremacists who target Muslims, as well as being blocked from communicating with his relatives.
“Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmate from the protections of the United States Constitution,” according to the 73-page lawsuit filed by Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian native who was sentenced to four life terms in prison in 2012 after pleading guilty to trying detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit with nearly 300 people on board.
The lawsuit names US Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, as well as 20 unidentified defendants. Spokespeople for the named defendants could not be reached for comment on Sunday, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Abdulmutallab, according to the lawsuit, has gone on a hunger strike to protest the alleged conditions, but says he has been repeatedly force-fed non-halal food. He also claims he’s enduring special administrative measures that block him from communicating with “more than 7.5 billion people, the vast majority of people on the planet,” according to the lawsuit.
The wannabe terrorist claims the constraints have restricted him from practicing his religion, a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, according to the lawsuit...
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Someone is supplying him a script with the latest leftist attack buzzwords.
Good point. I heard he was on a hunger strike. LOL. If I had my way, I encourage him by tossing raw pork and bacon into his cell for food.
Is that insensitive or "cruel and unusual"?
Convicted terrorist and failed mass murderer?
What rights?
Somehow I think when the Lord said he was passing out ‘brains’ this idiot thought he said ‘trains’ and moved to another line ...
ODD that he never filed any lawsuits during the 8 years of the OBOZO Administration........................
What!?! Prison sucks?
Who knew!
/s
Geez, I really feel sorry for this piece of trash.
rights? What about the rights of the people you almost blew into Smithereens you idiot you don’t have any rights you’re in prison dumbass
I agree with him. It’s wrong to keep him in solitary. Dump him into the general population.
Every time I fly and have to remove my shoes I’m reminded how my rights have been violated.
He should just be given a Philippine hair-cut!
How bout we just take him out to the desert, rearm him, leave and let him try again
This is a self-correcting problem: Just don't eat.
O O, Talaga!!!
Some liberal judge will grant his request.
So when did he get Constitutional rights? I never saw anywhere that he was a citizen in the first place.
Should be given fried pigs’ testes. He tried to explode his, splattering them all over the plane.
He is not being allowed to kill infidels as commanded by his prophet..........
If he doesn’t like the food, he doesn’t have to eat it.
The criminal terrorist should be shot...not wasting taxpayers’ money in prison.
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