Thursday, August 27, 2009

Muslim sues judge over order to remove hijab

A 32 year old Raneen Albaghdady is suing a Michigan judge after he told her to remove her hijab in his courtroom. Albaghdady claims that the judge violated her First Amendment right to practice her religion.

Islamic apologists and some prominent islamic groups have claimed in the past that the hijab is not mandated by islamic law. If it isn't mandated that Albaghdady can take the hijab off without violating her religious practices.

But all of a sudden the hijab is compulsory when it is convienent to creep shariah law through the back door.Breitbart

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - A Muslim woman on Wednesday sued a Michigan judge for telling her to remove her headscarf in his courtroom, claiming he violated her First Amendment right to practice her religion.

Raneen Albaghdady, 32, says she felt humiliated when Wayne County Circuit Judge William Callahan ordered her to remove her hijab at a June 16 hearing in his Detroit courtroom.

"This is the country and the land of freedom, and we're not supposed to be treated like this for the scarf," the Dearborn Heights woman said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon at the Southfield headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relation's Michigan chapter, which joined in the federal lawsuit against Callahan and Wayne County.
Always beware when CAIR is involved.
Callahan says Albaghdady, a native of Iraq, removed the scarf without protest and never mentioned its religious significance. If she had, he said, she would have been allowed to continue wearing it.[...]

The suit asks a federal judge to order judges in Wayne County to allow the wearing of the headscarf in court.

1 comment:

#1 infidel said...

Callahan is a decent judge and pretty fair ! it is these idiots that want to take over Dearbornistan and Southfield ,( and a few surrounding areas ) that are the problem , always looking to impose their way somehow , without EVER understanding anyone else !
It is a shame to see it happening so close to my home !