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abunoor 11:28 am on December 17, 2008 | 2 Permalink | Reply
Tags: discrimination (27), first amendment (2), hijab (75)

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  Zack 1:02 pm on December 17, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  

  According to the AJC,

  Valentine said she was accompanying her 19-year-old nephew to address a citation Tuesday morning when she was stopped at the metal detector and told she would not be allowed to enter the courtroom with a head scarf.

  Valentine, an insurance underwriter, told the bailiff that she had been in courtrooms before with a scarf on and that removing it would be a religious violation.

  Frustrated, she turned to leave and uttered an expletive. She said the bailiff then told her she could take the matter up in front of the judge. She said she was handcuffed and taken into Rollins’ courtroom.

  “They were putting me in there like I was some sort of criminal,” she said.

  The judge ordered her to serve 10 days in jail, where she was forced to remove her headscarf.

  It was not clear whether Valentine’s language contributed to her arrest.

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  Abu Noor Al-Irlandee 1:07 pm on December 18, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  

  I have a post up now about this incident at Muslim Matters, where I am now an “Associate Writer.”

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