Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Georgia Woman Jailed Over Hijab

An outraged CAIR press release to follow in 3...2...1...

At first glance I thought this woman was that whackjob Cynthia McKinney, in which case I'd suggest the full burqa treatment.
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.

Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said after they arrested her Tuesday.

Kelley Jackson, a spokeswoman for Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, said state law doesn't permit or prohibit head scarfs.

"It's at the discretion of the judge and the sheriffs and is up to the security officers in the court house to enforce their decision," she said.

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. She said she was unexpectedly released after the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations urged federal authorities to investigate the incident as well as others in Georgia.
Like clockwork, here are the agitators from CAIR, the unindicted terrorist co-conspirators. If you bother to read their press release, this whole thing smells like a publicity-seeking, grievance-mongering stunt. Who'd have imagined?

Islam Online is milking this bigtime.

Expect this crew to have Obama on his knees by February.

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