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To: lorne who wrote (11070)	12/10/2007 6:29:57 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Muslim Woman Sues Over Forced Removal of Head Scarf in Jail(And you thought you had heard it all....) orange county register ^ \| December 6, 2007 \| DOUG IRVING ocregister.com ORANGE – A Muslim woman says her religious freedom was violated and she felt "naked and exposed" when she was forced to remove her headscarf as she was being booked into a San Bernardino County jail. Jameelah Medina filed a federal lawsuit in Santa Ana against San Bernardino County late Wednesday, in a case that closely follows one filed in Orange County earlier this year. Her lawsuit also names a Los Angeles County deputy, claiming he made "offensive and bigoted" statements about her religion as he drove her to jail. "It's something I have to do," said Medina, a 29-year-old doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. She spoke during a morning news conference at the Orange office of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing her. "It's too important," she added. "A lot of the community, we don't speak out about a lot of things." Medina was stopped in December 2005 for riding a MetroLink train to her job in Los Angeles with an invalid ticket. She was ordered off the train in Pomona, where the Los Angeles County deputy was waiting for her, according to her lawsuit. The deputy questioned Medina, then handcuffed her and drove her to the West Valley Detention Center in nearby San Bernardino County. According to the lawsuit, he called Muslims evil, asked Medina if she sympathized with Saddam Hussein and said the United States was in Iraq at God's direction to squash evil. At the detention center, a San Bernardino deputy told Medina to take off her head scarf, according to the lawsuit. The head scarf, or hijab, is a "reminder of her faith, of the importance of modesty in her religion, and of her religious obligations," the suit states. (Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ....