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Michigan: Hamas-linked CAIR sues, falsely claiming prison denied Muslima inmate a hijab and served her pork

Apr 20, 2018 4:23 pm By Robert Spencer

Victimhood is currency in our ridiculous society, but Islamic advocacy groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have a problem: there aren’t very many genuine “anti-Muslim hate crimes,” not nearly enough to fuel their propaganda machine. So they have to be fabricated out of whole cloth.

Hamas-linked CAIR is suing the Michigan Department of Corrections, claiming that officials didn’t allow Siwatu-Salama Ra, a “community activist” who was convicted on felonious assault and weapons charges, to wear a hijab. But “prison spokesperson Chris Gautz says she didn’t arrive at the prison with a hijab and also didn’t ask for one. The request instead came from attorneys representing her. ‘We immediately went to the prisoner and asked her if she would like one. She indicated that she would so we provided her with the form that she can fill out to purchase a hijab.'”

Also, “they won’t provide her with pork-free meals,” but “the prison says they don’t have any meals with pork.”

Finally, “Religious leader Marna Mohammed says she was barred from visiting her in prison. ” But “Gautz said that’s not how the system works. ‘(You can’t just say) here’s this paper that says I’m allowed to come in as a clergy, I want to come into the prison today. That’s not how it works.'”

There is no discrimination here. There is no “Islamophobia” here. This is just Hamas-linked CAIR playing the victimhood game they play so well.

“Pregnant Muslim woman claims prison won’t let her wear hijab, practice faith,” WJBK, April 18, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):

DETROIT (WJBK) – The Council on American Islamic Relations has filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections on behalf of a community activist, saying the Muslim woman is not allowed to wear a hijab, not getting meals in line with her faith.

Siwatu-Salama Ra was sentenced in March for felonious assault and weapons charges. The woman is also 6 1/2 months pregnant but terrified of delivering her baby in prison.

“She is extremely fearful of having to give birth in prison, simply because of the way the prison has treated her, she has been treated,” her attorney, Victoria Burton-Harris, said.

CAIR filed the civil rights complaint against the DOC, saying that ever since she arrived at the women’s Huron Valley correctional facility, she’s been discriminated against for her beliefs.

“She has been unable to get a hijab or Islamic head covering, despite many requests by herself and our organization to provide her with one,” CAIR attorney Amy Doukoure said.

Prison spokesperson Chris Gautz says she didn’t arrive at the prison with a hijab and also didn’t ask for one. The request instead came from attorneys representing her.

“We immediately went to the prisoner and asked her if she would like one. She indicated that she would so we provided her with the form that she can fill out to purchase a hijab,” Gautz said.

The prison says the hijab will arrive next week.

That’s not the only problem. She also say she can’t get a copy of the Quran in prison and they won’t provide her with pork-free meals.

“MDOC would not allow her her own holy book to read, they tried to give her a bible. So see this is just a pattern,” Dawud Walid, Exec. Dir of CAIR, said.

The prison says they don’t have any meals with pork and deny allegations of discrimination.

“We have a paper trail and evidence that shows we took every step possible to meet the individual needs,” Gautz said.

Additionally, Religious leader Marna Mohammed says she was barred from visiting her in prison.

“The MDOC’s website specifically states that if I come with my letter from the religious organization and my ID that I would be allowed my initial visit. I was denied repeatedly.”

Gautz said that’s not how the system works.

“(You can’t just say) here’s this paper that says I’m allowed to come in as a clergy, I want to come into the prison today. That’s not how it works.”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 4:27 pm

    Oh, the HUMANITY! How cruel can these heinous perpetrators get? Someone offered a person a meal that they don’t want? Oh, CALL THE FBI !

    How about just saying, ‘I WOULDN’T CARE FOR THAT, THANK YOU. MAY I HAVE THE VEGETARIAN MEAL INSTEAD?’

    That wouldn’t produce ‘victimhood’, though, would it?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 20, 2018 at 5:58 pm

      Except she wasn’t served pork in the first place, since the prison does not serve it.

      Of course, they *should* serve pork, just because it is a popular food. (And I say this as a vegetarian).

      • Richard says

        Apr 20, 2018 at 7:33 pm

        A question on the pork question. It has been years since I read the Koran, but I recall reading in it of pork: “He who eats it, neither craving nor desiring, it is no sin to him.” That would make perfect sense as a matter of necessity or force, and would allow the prison to feed pork to her, whether she likes it or not. Prisons are for punishment, after all. Another point: The article refers to “Religious leader Marna Mohammed”, who had earlier been loosely referred to as “clergy”. Can a woman be a religious leader or clergy in Islam? I doubt it, but that is just my guess.

        • Arnold Jackson says

          Apr 20, 2018 at 10:15 pm

          I found this really funny:

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 21, 2018 at 11:47 pm

          True, Richard.

          That’s Qur’an 5:3:

          “…But as for him who is forced by severe hunger, with no inclination to sin (such can eat these above mentioned meats), then surely, Allaah is Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful”

          And Qur’an 6:119:

          “And why should you not eat of that (meat) on which Allaah’s Name has been pronounced (at the time of slaughtering the animal), while He has explained to you in detail what is forbidden to you, except under compulsion of necessity?”

          But Muslims know they can make the Infidels feel guilty with false claims of not accommodating their ugly creed.

    • J D S says

      Apr 21, 2018 at 11:13 am

      I keep trying to tell all that it will take NEW LAWS to address the Muslim law situation…
      Take this prison situation for instsnce….New laws could be passed to cover this.
      Prison is prison and should be treated as prisons not hotels….Now I’m not talking of going back to the days of beatings etc. But FOOD and CLOTHING …get real!!! Again I say ..if it takes new laws to address the so called, muslim laws, then, C’mon law makers, time to earn your salary and save AMERICA……

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 22, 2018 at 12:10 am

        No, we don’t have to change our laws to accomodate Muslims. We just need to vigorously enforce the laws we have now.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 4:28 pm

    Under Sharia law, a Muslim can eat pork if that’s what is served. They just have to pray a special prayer and *POOF*… Allah magically makes the dinner *HALAL* in a jiff.

  3. Sentinel says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 4:48 pm

    Presumably she also demanded a Heckler and Koch with ten clips of ammo and a range in which she could fully practice her religion of peace. Difficult to claim the moral high ground when you’re a gun toting criminal.

  4. somehistory says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 5:11 pm

    Being prosecuted and found guilty of a crime has punishment as the reward. She did the crime, but whines about the reward. Prison isn’t meant to be a picnic with favorite foods and clothing. It is meant to punish and cause the criminal to think about the crimes committed as well as keep society safe from her/him.

    All women who are sent to prison while pregnant and are there at the time of birth, have the child in prison. No one, not even a whiny moslim gets to be treated special. She should have given thought to that before assaulting another person and possessing the weapons..

  5. SpencerforPOTUS says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 5:21 pm

    I’ve lived in Michigan for three decades. It’s my home-state. If there’s anyway I can vote-in people who think like Robert Spencer, or Robert Spencer himself, into positions that can annihilate the quran / jihad / mosques, my vote will be for that. Ill definitely be voting for whoever is competing against Abdul El-Sayed.

  6. gravenimage says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 5:55 pm

    Michigan: Hamas-linked CAIR sues, falsely claiming prison denied Muslima inmate a hijab and served her pork
    ……………………….

    Lawfare and fake Muslim victimhood.

  7. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 6:00 pm

    https://www.rt.com/usa/424717-us-pay-white-helmets-syria/

  8. J. Lynch says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 6:33 pm

    If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime!! Since when do prisoners get special treatment based on
    religion ? These CAIR people are traitors to everything America stands for!

  9. Linda says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 7:14 pm

    Just one more Muslim hoax.

  10. Truth says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 8:24 pm

    Have Muslims taken millions of black people as slaves from Africa? Do Muslims have a word for black Africans……Abeed…that means lesser human? Did the African nation Angola declare Islam illegal?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 22, 2018 at 12:44 am

      The first part of this is true, Truth–the last is mistaken. A lot of people to believe this, though, but it did not happen:

      “Angola denies it banned Islam, destroyed mosques”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/angola-denies-it-banned-islam-destroyed-mosques

  11. Rey Ybarra says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 10:01 pm

    Too friggin bad!! You committed the crime now deal with justice!! At least you are not taken out and beheaded!!!

  12. Sarah says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 11:38 pm

    “Siwatu-Salama Ra was sentenced in March for felonious assault and weapons charges. The woman is also 6 1/2 months pregnant but terrified of delivering her baby in prison.”

    Ohh boy. Where does one start, with all of this?

    Firstly, this woman is nothing but a pure mongrel. If she’s so terrified of giving birth in prison, maybe she should have thought about that, before beating the absolute crap out of someone, presumably with some serious weapons involved.

    It’s called consequences for actions, you utter mongrel. Enjoy them. Enjoy them til you choke on them.

    As for the request for a hijab – you’re in a female prison, you absurdly moronic idiot. If you feel the need to cover that fluff on your head that you call hair, around any male prison employees, then grab your pillowcase off your bedding and wrap that around your stupid head.

    I honestly, cannot find even a thin inch of compassion, tolerance, respect or kindness for this worthless creature. May she have an utterly miserable time in prison.

  13. Herman says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 7:24 am

    I am sick and tired of these mozlim hoaxes, their false victim claims AND most of all tired of the “media” following along.

  14. Rolf Wittwer says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 7:56 am

    She is a Criminal.
    Nobody has to follow her sick requests in prison.
    Such people the US never should “import” anymore. Stop it!

  15. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 10:56 am

    mithraist christians are being inspired by the satan to force muslims to violate the sharia to be like them to serve the satan together. Eg, French colonialists forced Muslims under French colonies to be assimilated into French culture and became non-practicing Muslim as in Niger Republic, mali, Benin, Burkinafasso, Guinea ,Senegal, Algeria and Tunisia. when Muslims there now become practicing muslims, mithraist christians are not happy. wicked people

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 22, 2018 at 12:47 am

      Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed believes that being exposed to civilized culture is being “forced”. As always, Muslims cannot understand free will.

    • Sheepdog says

      Apr 22, 2018 at 9:03 am

      You are so devoid of truth that you have to go back 2,000 years to find a mystery cult to associate Christianity with. No group today practices this; using it to try to defame Christians shows how truly desperate you are to find anything to hate. Any group such as that to which you belong whose ideology hinges on hatred of everyone that disagrees with you is evil and unworthy of recognition except to destroy it as one would a rabid dog.
      No one here knows what you’re talking about without looking it up. Mithraism. Pathetic. This is how low you have to dig to find anything to hate about Christians and the West, something that hasn’t existed since the 4th century.
      No one is forcing muslims to violate sharia, you just can’t break our laws to practice it here. You are the ones trying to force Westerners to violate our Christian beliefs and honor your false god and his false, murdering prophet.
      We’re aren’t weak like the Europeans. Many of us are aware of the threats against us. We are legion and we are not afraid.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 22, 2018 at 9:56 pm

        +1

  16. Hogdude says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 1:12 pm

    I love the smell of pulled Michigan pork in the morning!

  17. gravenimage says

    Apr 22, 2018 at 12:39 am

    Yes–ugly stuff, Jay Boo. Also, for her to claim that Barbara Bush supporting Clarence Thomas was “racist” makes no sense. Does this idiot hope that people don’t know that Clarence Thomas is *himself* Black?

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