New York City will pay three Muslim women a total of $180,000 after they were forced to remove their hijabs while having police mugshots taken.
Almost three years ago, the “NYPD changed their policies regarding religious head gear, meaning people were informed they had the choice to get their photo taken in a private room with an officer of the same gender.”
The hijab has nothing to do with religious freedom. The Islamic veil represents the lower status of women in Islam: a woman is commanded in Quranic texts to be fully veiled lest she be abused (33:59). A Muslim woman may choose to wear a head covering, but for mugshots removing it is a necessity for proper identification, and in jail, the hijab becomes a security issue, as it can be used to conceal things.
Also, Westerners should not be bowing to the sharia dictates of female inferiority. Westerners have lost all sense of reason for fear of being branded “Islamophobic.” In the case of these three women, taxpayers are having to pay for an unreasonable accommodation as a result of the folly of the NYPD and the Brooklyn Federal Court.
Tehran Police Chief Hassan Rahimi has warned Iranian women protesting the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab rule of a zero-tolerance policy against protesters. He called on Iranians to observe “Islamic rules” regarding the hijab
The NYPD and the Brooklyn Federal Court should be ashamed of themselves for subjugating themselves to Islamic rules, while women in Iran risk their lives to escape its strictures.
“Three Muslim Women Receive $60,000 Each After Being Forced to Remove Hijab for Police Mugshots”, by Ewan Palmer, Newsweek, February 28, 2018:
New York City will pay three Muslim women a total of $180,000 after they were forced to remove their hijabs while having police mugshots taken.
The lawsuits were settled in Brooklyn federal court with each of the women receiving $60,000 each, according to the New York Daily News.
The first case dates back to 2012 when a teenage girl—identified only as “G.E”—was arrested after getting into a fight with two other Brooklyn school girls she believed were spreading rumours about her.
When G.E was taken to a local police station, she was told she must remove her hijab before her photo could be taken. After she refused, the teenager was taken into a private room where a female officer took the mugshot without any men present.
However, when she was taken to Brooklyn Central Booking, the girl was told there weren’t any female officers around to take the mugshot and that the camera had to remain in its fixed location, not moved to a private room.
The teenager claimed she felt “exposed, violated and distraught” after being made to remove her hijab for around 20 minutes in the company of other men, the Daily News reports.
In March 2015, NYPD changed their policies regarding religious head gear, meaning people were informed they had the choice to get their photo taken in a private room with an officer of the same gender, court rulings show.
Two other similar cases in 2015 and 2016 where then filed by G.E’s lawyer, Tahanie Aboushi, after the new rules were out in place….