[quote name='nasum']jeez, maybe they wanted her to take off the headgear for her own safety? Some of the pther people in jail may have taken a shot at her and could have used it to choke her or something?! Imagine the outcry if such a transgression were to happen.
Two sides pal. You call it religious harrassment, I call it sitting in jail and that's just what happens there. They'll take your little cross on your neck chain too so that you can't use it as a weapon or have it used against you in such a way too. But those are christians or catholics so the ACLU doesn't care about them right?
Oh yeah, forgot we're the great opressors so nothing we do can be for good right?[/QUOTE]
Is it a requirement of faith for a person to wear a crucifix? It is a requirement of faith for women to wear a headscarf. The US has upheld that a person can't be discriminated aginst for wearing it, multiple times. Dude, your analogies suck. Having known a few male muslim inmates, their experience of being muslim in prison was that people actually respected them more and didn't mess with them. The Nation of Islam people were loony and always trying to cause problems.
And since you want to be offended so bad, brace yourself, I'm going to say something so radical, you might have to sit in the corner and stare at the wall for awhile to let it sink in. Muslims have it better in America than in any country in the world. They have it so good becaus the law requires ALL people to be protected even if you disagree with them, not just those that are related to the current dictator or his cronies. That's why maltreatment like this strikes me as so perverse. In a Syrian prison this lady would have already been a "missing" person.
You wrote: Well, this person knowingly and willingly gave money to an organization labeled as a terrorist group, ergo she did that by choice and her choices have landed her in the courtroom. Then again, that's that responsibility sillyness so I suppose I can just give up on going down that road.
--and I've said if she's guilty, I hope she gets the appropriate punishment. Unfortunately in America we have this legal principle of presumption of innocence. Someday when you're king, you can eliminate it, but for now, thankfully we're still the United States, and she is innocent until proven guilty.
Two sides pal. You call it religious harrassment, I call it sitting in jail and that's just what happens there. They'll take your little cross on your neck chain too so that you can't use it as a weapon or have it used against you in such a way too. But those are christians or catholics so the ACLU doesn't care about them right?
Oh yeah, forgot we're the great opressors so nothing we do can be for good right?[/QUOTE]
Is it a requirement of faith for a person to wear a crucifix? It is a requirement of faith for women to wear a headscarf. The US has upheld that a person can't be discriminated aginst for wearing it, multiple times. Dude, your analogies suck. Having known a few male muslim inmates, their experience of being muslim in prison was that people actually respected them more and didn't mess with them. The Nation of Islam people were loony and always trying to cause problems.
And since you want to be offended so bad, brace yourself, I'm going to say something so radical, you might have to sit in the corner and stare at the wall for awhile to let it sink in. Muslims have it better in America than in any country in the world. They have it so good becaus the law requires ALL people to be protected even if you disagree with them, not just those that are related to the current dictator or his cronies. That's why maltreatment like this strikes me as so perverse. In a Syrian prison this lady would have already been a "missing" person.
You wrote: Well, this person knowingly and willingly gave money to an organization labeled as a terrorist group, ergo she did that by choice and her choices have landed her in the courtroom. Then again, that's that responsibility sillyness so I suppose I can just give up on going down that road.
--and I've said if she's guilty, I hope she gets the appropriate punishment. Unfortunately in America we have this legal principle of presumption of innocence. Someday when you're king, you can eliminate it, but for now, thankfully we're still the United States, and she is innocent until proven guilty.
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