A Muslim female inmate at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Columbia has allegedly been denied the right to wear a hijab, a headbag worn by many Muslim women.
Charleston City Paper Nadhira Al-Khalili, national legal director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says that on Dec. 31, corrections officers forced a woman to remove her hijab for a booking photograph and then did not allow her to wear it while she was incarcerated. CAIR sent a letter to the S.C. Department of Corrections early last week requesting that the agency obey the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act, which protects religious practices in prisons.
The hijab is a matter of modesty, and some Muslims believe that the hadiths, or sayings of the prophet Muhammad, require it. “Hijab is just like any other article of clothing,” Al-Khalili says, “so if you asked a woman to take off her shirt, even if other women are taking off their shirts, if she doesn’t feel comfortable removing that particular article of clothing, it’s going to be a very demeaning and demoralizing experience.”
CAIR also tried to have this South Carolina billboard for what they called an ‘Islamophobic’ movie taken down, but lost.
In other states, laws make specific accommodations for inmates who choose to wear turbans, yarmulkes, and hijabs, and female corrections officers are allowed to take female prisoners into a private room to search their hijabs for contraband.
Al-Khalili, who wears a hijab, says another South Carolina woman contacted her in the fall when she was forced to remove her hijab in a SCDOR facility, but the woman chose not to pursue legal action. In this case, she says CAIR has not yet decided whether to file a lawsuit. “If the Department of Corrections would just contact us, that would certainly save everyone a lot of time and resources, but we haven’t even heard from them yet,” she says. (South Carolina has more important things to worry about like trying to pass anti-sharia legislation)
There need be no special rights in prison. No head bags. The prisoners must be able to be identified and they could be hiding knives in their head bags. Say no to all muslim head bags.
BNI, thanks for publishing these pics. We need these billboards in every city.
Where is Prince Dracula now that we need him? Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, the very real Prince Dracula of Transylvania in the Middle Ages was once visited by some biggies wearing some sort of head covering. He told his translator to tell these men to remove their head gear in his presence. They explained to him that their religion demanded that they wear them so Prince Dracula said, “In that case nail them onto their heads to make sure they don’t fall off.”
BNI, the billboard image reminded me of the following video by a band called “Stuck Mojo.” The song is called “Open Season.” I think you might like it – I loved it. Perhaps post it on your blog.
loved it . how many music channels has this been shown on?
How come THEY get to keep their assault rifles?
Also, I take exception to this site reffering to CAIR as Nazis.
This is an insult to Nazis, who, at least, had some sense of honor!
Aryan enough yet are we?
Banning the garments which conceal identity should be a universal American policy.
Here’s yet another example of egregious tolerance to the deceptive veil:
Found: girl snatched from school by hefty sacked kidnapper
Modesty Schmodesty ! The louse habitat is just another form of muslim demonstration. The stink eminating from those sweaty louse bags ought to be enough to get them removed. Notice they didn’t say why the bitch was in jail. Prisoners are prisoners.
Let her have her muslim ways if she insists. Including the ones that mandate amputation for theft and stoning for fornication.
Jail means you lost your privilage of freedom of choice.
bitch is an inmate. lost her rights. but the american muslim john Walker Lindh won his right to pray with other asslifters. Still don’t see the attraction to this filth
your hate is the reason we cover. this world is sick and twisted and painful. you lust when you see my curves, my hair, my sexy lips. when i cover it, you have no control -no peek-a-boo. leave me alone.
You bagheads cover up and still get raped more than any other women in the world. Your children, too. Don’t flatter yourself, most muslim women are butt ugly.
But you’re right about one thing – we do hate you.
I suppose the concept of “IMPRISONMENT” and the loss of freedom that entails doesn’t register with these buffoons.
When you are imprisoned for a crime, you do NOT have the right to wear whatever you want to wear. You wear what they TELL you to wear; you eat WHEN and WHAT they tell you to eat (or you don’t eat at all); the lights go out when THEY decide to shut them off, and the lights go on when THEY decide to turn them on.
THEY, in this case, being the prison authorities.
Further, when it comes to state Departements of Corrections, the STATE decides what is permissible to wear and when, NOT the Federal Government.