creeping
The application of Islamic sharia law (and the Islam tax) goes even further:
a nonpublic photo without the covering will be taken for police use and another photo with the covering will be available for public use.via Hennepin County sheriff’s office announces new policy for religious head coverings for inmates | Star Tribune. h/t LUTBOI
Dhimmitude:
Hennepin County Sheriff Richard W. Stanek, left, and Major J.R. Storms
spoke about the addition of a policy regarding Islamic head coverings
for Muslim inmates.
Inmates at the Hennepin County jail
will be allowed to wear religious head coverings, the Sheriff’s Office
said Thursday, making it the first law enforcement agency in Minnesota
to adopt such a policy.
Just a few hours after Sheriff Rich Stanek announced the change, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office said it will roll out a similar policy this week.
The new policies were warmly welcomed by representatives of religious and cultural groups.
“This addresses the most fundamental of
civil rights,” said Fartun Weli, executive director of Isuroon, a Somali
women’s advocacy group. “It’s part of our identity.”
The trauma of an arrest can move a suspect
to “seek spiritual relief, but they also have to deal with the shame of
not being able to wear a head covering,” Weli said. “This is a big deal
to us, but we aren’t saying somebody should receive special treatment
because of their religion.”
How do you say bullshit in Somali? The punishment for breaking the law is LOSING rights, not getting special privileges at taxpayer expense.
Although both sheriff’s offices had been
considering the changes for nearly a year, a compelling letter from the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to Stanek last fall drove
home the importance of allowing religious garb in jail, the sheriff
said.
In Hennepin County, at least a couple of dozen inmates each year will be affected.
When individuals wearing a head covering such as yarmulke, hijab or
kufi are booked into jail, they will be taken to a private area where
the clothing item will be searched and inventoried. For security
reasons, the jail then will provide a replacement.
Procedures are also in place for inmates who didn’t arrive wearing a religious head covering, but want to request one.
One caveat: An inmate can receive a head
covering only if he or she isn’t deemed a safety or security threat,
Stanek said. If the covering is altered or used for anything other than
its intended purpose, it will be taken away.
The
new policy also includes booking photos. In Hennepin County, a female
inmate wearing a hijab will be allowed to keep it on, but push it back
off her face for the photo. In Ramsey County, a nonpublic photo without
the covering will be taken for police use and another photo with the
covering will be available for public use.
Outright compliance with Islamic sharia…at taxpayer expense.
The policy’s genesis
The new policy, which adheres to the
constitutional and federal requirements of the Religious Land Use and
Institutionalized Persons Act, followed discussions with CAIR and
experts on religion and corrections, Stanek said. His office also
reviewed similar policies in California and Illinois.
Before the new policy, the Sheriff’s
Office considered head covering requests from inmates case-by-case. The
jail currently accommodates inmates with specific religious needs such
as adhering to dietary requirements, providing religious literature and
organizing religious leaders from a variety of faiths who volunteer in
the jail.
Each year, more than 38,000 people are
booked into Hennepin County jail and 20,000 into the Ramsey County
facility. Inmates usually are struggling with a variety of issues when
they land in jail, and not being able to wear a head covering can add to
their problems, Weli said.
Weli has seen a jail-issued hijab, which
is dark brown and made with a stretchy material. She said she was
pleased with it, and that it compared well to one she might buy at a
local Somali shopping mall.
Lori Saroya, executive director of CAIR,
agreed, then joked she was glad they weren’t the bright orange color
typically associated with jail attire.
An influential letter
Saroya said her office has heard complaints of insensitivity over head coverings at jails throughout the state.
In August 2013, a religious Muslim woman
was ordered to remove her hijab and given two T-shirts to cover her head
and arms, Saroya said.
The letter CAIR sent to Stanek in December
detailed that incident and compared making the religious woman remove
her scarf to asking a woman to take off her shirt.
“The hijab is not an accessory. Muslim
women who wear the hijab sincerely believe it is a religious
obligation,” the letter stated.
The letter also discussed federal and
state discrimination laws, head-covering policies in other states and
recommendations for the Hennepin County jail. Saroya hopes other
counties will follow the lead of Hennepin and Ramsey.
Steve Hunegs, executive director of the
Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, also
hailed the change. “We appreciate the difficulty in balancing a person’s
sincerely held religious beliefs and practices with the need to
maintain security and decorum at the [jail],” he said.
The new policy is an opportunity to be proactive rather than reactive, Stanek said.
Proactive sharia law? Stanek and the other LEO’s should be
ashamed of even meeting with the Hamas-linked, federally named
unindicted co-conspirator to the largest Islamic terror financing
conviction in U.S. history. They are negligent in their duty to protect
Americans.There’s a plague settling across Minnesota:
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