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There are several ways to get rich in Old Joe Biden’s America. Among the most notable are winning an elected office, being the son of a major elected official, and being part of one of the left’s protected victim groups who can make a case for having been the victim of discrimination. That last one is why a woman in Tennessee, Sophia Johnston, is $100,000 richer today.
Of course, another feature of Old Joe Biden’s America is that $100,000 today amounts to only $14,474 in 1973 dollars, 1973 being the year Old Joe entered the Senate and began working for a better deal for the common man. So it cannot be said that winning her discrimination case has made Sophia Johnston rich, but still, $100,000 even in 2024 dollars is a nice chunk of change to get just for winning the victimhood jackpot.
The Nashville Tennessean reported Monday that Johnston “has reached a settlement with Rutherford County and members of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office after she was forced to remove her hijab for a booking photo at the Rutherford County Detention Center in late August.” Johnston claimed that “the forced removal of her religious covering for a minor — and since dismissed — criminal booking violated her First Amendment right to practice her religion without interference.”
Even worse, Johnston contended, it was obscene. The Miami Herald reported in August 2023 that “forcing an observant Muslim woman to remove her hijab in front of men who are not family is ‘humiliating and degrading,’ according to the lawsuit, which likened doing so to making a woman remove her shirt in public.”
The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office folded easily in the face of the prospect of being accused of “Islamophobia”: “As part of the settlement, the county agreed to update its booking and jail policies to accommodate religious attire, delete Johnston’s booking photos and all video footage in which she was depicted without wearing her hijab, and pay her $100,000.” What? No all-expenses-paid vacation in an Islamic holy city of her choice? No valet service? What kind of a settlement is this?
A lucrative one. Daniel Horwitz, the chief of Johnston’s legal team, crowed: “This is a historic win for Ms. Johnston and her entire religious community. Citizens have the right to practice their religion without unreasonable governmental interference, and we are proud to have vindicated Ms. Johnston’s rights and secured permanent policy changes that will prevent violations like this from recurring. Every government agency in Tennessee should take notice.”
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Billy Willett says
Will that money be paid to her in Obama or Biden currency?
ed says
benjamins baby
PRCS says
+1
ed says
But islam is not a religion
FYI says
Biology for muslimas
Do you know where babies come from?
Will you explain it to allah?
Koran 86:6-7
Is Biology wrong or is it the koran?
No Biology is not wrong.
Yes the koran is wrong.
Have a look at allah’s other amazing science mistakes too.
Do you know that in koran 2:29 allah boasts that “he is the knower of ALL things” yet the Scientific,Historical,Logical and Theological ..{especially koran 5:116 pickthall where allah insists MARY is one of the 3 gods Christians worship.Ridiculous!}….errors PROVE otherwise.
So does allah really know ALL things?No.Obviously not.
Can allah be God if he is provably not omniscient?No.allah is impersonating a god/God.
Why should women have to wear a hijab/chador when allah doesn’t even understand Biology?
Exactly.
It’s a good scam though….Cha Ching$$$..if you can find the right lawyer..
deze MN bee says
And so Daniel Horwitz and Miss Johnston flew to Jerusalem on the wings of a dove. The fruits of Freedom of Religion were aclaimed and all laid down their weapons. Peace had come to the Holy Land. There was a thousand voice choir. Hallelujah!
PRCS says
“Johnston claimed that “the forced removal of her religious covering for a minor — and since dismissed — criminal booking violated her First Amendment right to practice her religion without interference.””
Her “deeply held religious beliefs” must be both protected. And rewarded!
But, in California–despite two separate Supreme Court rulings in favor of a Colorado baker’s deeply held religious beliefs vs demands from homosexuals, another challenge: this time to a California baker’s refusal to cowtow to the letter salad gay mob.
Baker faces legal battle over same-sex cake in California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uob7i9XeYiY
Betcha, should she win, there won’t be monetary remuneration for her.
PS: no one has the unfettered right to practice those aspects of their religious beliefs/laws which run afoul of U.S. law.
Troybeam says
Islam is a cult not a religion, They use God as a word but not in actions or life style, God does not command to kill people, God does not tell women they are nothing that dirt has more respect than a woman.
Islam is a threat to humanity.
nicholas tesdorf says
A Jackpot for the Crackpot.
James Lincoln says
So, how did Rutherford County and members of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office come up with exactly $100,000?
What was it based upon?
bagsgroove says
So after a while,she will use her scam again somewhere else for another 100 grand. She thinks she has it made for life. Can you see thousands of muslimas applying for the 100,000.
Namer says
I guess crime does pay after all.