Sunday, December 21, 2008

AP twists Muslim head scarf story

Was she jailed for wearing the scarf in the courthouse or was it something else?

Ga. judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf

A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint said Wednesday that she felt her human and civil rights were violated. A judge ordered Lisa Valentine, 40, to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court, said police in Douglasville, a city of about 20,000 people on Atlanta's west suburban outskirts.
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Valentine, who recently moved to Georgia from New Haven, Conn., said the incident reminded her of stories she'd heard of the civil rights-era South.

"I just felt stripped of my civil, my human rights," she said Wednesday from her home.


Awww that judge sounds like a meanie. But wait whats the very last line of the article?

Hall said Valentine, an insurance underwriter, told the bailiff that she had been in courtrooms before with the scarf on and that removing it would be a religious violation. When she turned to leave and uttered an expletive, Hall said a bailiff handcuffed her and took her before the judge.


Hey now wait a minute why is that at the very end? Was she in contempt for wearing the scarf or being a twat?

So when the AP prints this garbage in India I wonder how well it plays out.

In US, woman jailed over head scarf

ATLANTA: A Muslim woman was arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint. A judge ordered Lisa Valentine
to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court, said police in Douglasville, a city of about 20,000 people in Atlanta.

Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said. She said she was released after the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations urged federal authorities to investigate the incident.


That's all it says with no mention of her reaction to the bailiff.

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