A federal judge on Monday ordered Washington state prisons to provide nighttime meals to Muslim inmates observing Ramadan….The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit from the Muslim advocacy group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which accused the state’s corrections department of violating inmates’ constitutional rights.
There have been similar requests, lawsuits and accommodations across the US, Canada and in other Western countries. These special accommodations are causing tensions, and in some cases, threats of violence in prisons where Muslim prisoners get special privileges that others don’t get, such as are getting a microwave of their own and better food.
Here is another twist from Sing Sing maximum-security prison in Westchester County in New York, which holds over 1,600 inmates, including many who have been convicted of crimes like murder and manslaughter:
The prison’s imam, Jon Young, said that 80 percent of the Muslim inmates in Sing Sing had converted to Islam after entering prison.
Young praises Islam as a “discipline that they didn’t have before…. a real sense of brotherhood. They protect each other.”
With special treatment and accommodations for Muslims in jail, it is no surprise that many prisoners would convert to Islam. The implications are serious once these prisoners are released.
“Judge orders Washington state to provide Ramadan meals to Muslim inmates,” by Avery Anapol, The Hill, June 11, 2018:
A federal judge on Monday ordered Washington state prisons to provide nighttime meals to Muslim inmates observing Ramadan, according to The Associated Press.
The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit from the Muslim advocacy group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which accused the state’s corrections department of violating inmates’ constitutional rights.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of four Muslim inmates, said that the Monroe Correctional Complex’s Ramadan meal policy was insufficient. According to the lawsuit, the prison requires inmates to register by the end of January if they want to be on the list for Ramadan meals.
Some inmates observing Ramadan, including those who entered the prison after the deadline, were not being given nighttime meals. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit reportedly lost an average of 20 pounds each during Ramadan, which requires that Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.
“Muslim inmates have been starved and their health is in danger as a result of the Monroe Correctional Complex’s shameful starvation policy,” said Lena Masri, the national litigation director for CAIR…..
Bev says
Get these people out of our country. They’re worse than communists. When a Muslim is held in prison they need to be separated from the others or held in their own prison so they can’t indoctrinate the rest of the inmates into this bogus religion. CAIR needs to be designated as a terror sponsor and anyone who belongs or associates with CAIR needs to be deported to the middle of the Pacific ocean.
rob says
Agree 100%. Transport them to one of the shit hole muslim countries in Africa and pay its dictator a couple of grand per head to take them in and ensure that they don’t try to return to the USA. I’m sure they’ll be much more comfortable there during their Ramalanna Ding Dong soirees.
John York says
Get real. This is supposed to be prison, not a luxury hotel with room service.
Scott says
Do we not serve Jewish inmates Kosher meals?
SweetOlBob says
Bev:
With all respect; NO THEY DON’T !
We already do too many special things for these uncivilized barbarians !
Where the hell does it say that it is our responsibility to keep them within the tenets of their so called religion. Are we supposed to hold down their daughters so that they can be sexually maimed ? Are we supposed to deliver their children up to be murdered wen they act disrespectfully ? Are we supposed to cheer when by their religion, they are allowed to beat their wives ?
And when they beak our laws because they are muslim and believe that they have to follow only sharia, so we have to give the filthy bastards prayer rugs, a special diet, and a quiet, calm,private place to
pray ?
They are CRIMINALS ! In prison they have NO RIGHTS other than the rules of the prison !
That liberal, sobbing, bawling, muslim smooching judge needs to be horse drug, cat scratched, dog bit, and thrown out of office ! Wherever he is there could be something worth while. Like a septic tank !
PABLO says
This poses a security threat and should be appealed.
John York says
This is totally unfair to American inmates who must sit there and starve while smelling the good food the Muslims are getting. They are torturing the American prisoners while the Muslims are feasting.
Rob Crawford says
Taxpayers shouldn’t be held accountable for a criminal’s decision to “fast” (gorging on food after sunset isn’t a fast).
They choose to starve, let them abide by their choice.
Jay says
What a double standard this is! Being convicted of a crime and sent to prison means you give up rights due to your crimes! Since when do violent inmates have rights to demand the prisons conform to
them and their anti American religions? This is complete insanity. The Muslims in this country have corrupted our democracy and they had eight years of obama to get a foothold! This is serious and must be stopped! Of course our judicial system is ful of progressive judges that tow the Obama doctrine! We must replace these judges with conservative judges that uphold the constitution of the United States! If congress won’t approve Trump’s judges, we must vote them out as well! Thank goodness communist Hillary lost!!
Go Trump,2020 ????????
John York says
The worst part of all this is that the prisons are turning out Islam terrorists. We have American inmates sitting there watching the Muslims feast and are told if they convert to Islam they can also feast.
Now what would you do if you’re sitting there hungry and watching these Muslim criminals pigging out and telling you all you have to do is convert to Islam and you will get the goodies too. So now you have guys that are in prison for maybe stealing a car or whatever, but coming out of prison as Muslim terrorists wanting to kill everybody and being told it’s okay to rape children.
The dumbass judge should be prosecuted for recruiting terrorists.
mortimer says
DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE BUILT INTO ISLAM’S “DARURA” PRINCIPLE
Because Islam’s “Law of Necessity” fully permits Muslims to find creative ways to adapt when Sharia Law conflicts with practical life, the argument that societies are obliged to make concessions to privilege all the demands of strict Sharia Law is considerably weakened.
Islam Is a flexible religion: religious obligations allow exceptions, subject to circumstances. Muslim religious scholars balance countervailing obligations to determine when exceptions apply.
Understanding such balancing of necessities in Islam is not only important for public policy, but also for understanding how an identical set of religious beliefs can be used to justify war or peace, terrorism or peaceful coexistence.
Fasting During Ramadan at Olympics
As the London Olympics are underway, London organizers of the Olympics, according to a report in the New York Times, are supporting the needs of Muslims athletes, “with more than 150 Muslim clerics on hand to assist athletes, as well as fast-breaking packs including dates and other traditional foods.”
As it is also the month of Ramadan, during which Muslims are obligated not to eat or drink, even their own saliva, from sunrise to sunset, spare a thought for the more than 3,500 Muslim competitors, who, if they strictly observed Ramadan, would be abstaining from food and drink from the first prayer of the day (Fajr) at 2.44 am through to the dusk prayer (Maghrib) at 8.53 pm (as at July 29, 2012, see Islamicfinder.org).
Optimum sporting performance cannot be expected from athletes who go without food or drink for over 18 hours — a circumstance which would not be fair to them.
Many Muslim Olympians now in London will therefore not be fasting. Some may rely on religious rulings (fatwas) which exempt sportspeople from the Ramadan fast, such as a ruling issued in 2010 by the German Central Council of Muslims, that Muslim professional footballers, because they depend upon football for their living, need not fast during Ramadan.
The United Emirates, using a different approach stated that players may omit the fast as long as they do not stay in one place for more than four days. This is based upon a standard exemption for travelers during Ramadan (Sahih Bukhari, 3:31:167). Another exemption, following advice from imams in Morocco, is being used by English Olympic rower Moe Sbihi, who announced that he will donate 60 meals to poor people in Morocco for each missed fast day. Many Olympic athletes are postponing their fasts until their sporting commitments are completed. However, the Moroccan football team are fasting and trusting that Allah will help them to victory. All Muslims agree that fasting is obligatory during Ramadan; they differ in the exceptions they make.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
No Muslim need fast during daytime in the month of Ramadan if daytime eating is a matter of necessity (“darura”, also spelled “dharoorah”), such as when being held captive in a prison run by kufaar. Here’s a four-minute fatwa on this by Imam Bill:
https://www.politicalislam.com/necessity-and-obligation/
Sharia regulates the behavior of kufaar as well as of Muslims, but a lot of kufaar are insufficiently conversant with the sharia principle “Necessity cancels Obligation”.
Sam says
Why people can not read JW and learn ISLAM?
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Ren says
That federal judge must be clueless on islam. The nighttime privileges only promotes religious hypocrisy.
Ramadan = deprivation of food during daytime to feast and eat like a pig at nighttime
Eagle Nest says
The Koran requires these inmates to be treated differently and better than other inmates, this is discrimination!! All inmates should be under the same rule of law. I’ll bet dollars for donuts that there is something in the Sharia Law and the Koran that says infidels and non-believers cannot imprison Muslims. When will the Obama era judge discover this one. We need term limits and a law that bans Sharia Law from America. Don’t do the crime if you cannot do the time! This Muslim stink is getting stronger every day. The food is there,they have a god given right to starve if they want too.This judge does not know what the rule of law is about.!!
HugoHackenbush says
This is partly the fault of congress and those who pushed for “right to practice religion” laws that pertain to prisons. CAIR is simply making use of these laws. Rescind the laws that allow the cases to be brought.
DragarOz says
Completely agree, we are past such requirement now in our society in my opinion. we have constitutional issues here with freedom of religion also. it was done due to the prodestant and catholic issues but now is being bent around by Islam. easiest way forward is to declare Islam as not being a religion. Mountains to climb on that one.
JM says
The “clueless in Seattle” leftards are turning their state into the next Minnesotastan.
What’s next? Weekend passes from prison and temporary driving permits so jihadis can carry out divine allahu-akbar missions during the Islamic holy season of Ram-a-van?
Ragdoll says
Surely it makes no difference what time they eat meals in prison, they can’t see whether the sun is shining or not outside??!
Do the crime, do the time.
gravenimage says
Federal judge bows to CAIR, orders special nighttime Ramadan meals for Muslim inmates in Washington state prisons
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Insane bowing to Shari’ah. That they are emboldening felons is all the more insane.
Axolotl says
“The prison’s imam, Jon Young, said that 80 percent of the Muslim inmates in Sing Sing had converted to Islam after entering prison”
It’s brilliant in it’s simplicity.
Inmates sign-up as Muslims solely for the perks and privileges it brings. As time goes by, they succumb to the steady pressure of indoctrination and actually become Muslims. Come parole time, with help from the iman, they get out and are assisted with accommodation and employment by other Muslims – help that they probably wouldn’t get from the state. How wonderful is Islam to them. As with many converts, some will become fanatics for the cause.
And we all know what happens next…
somehistory says
“starvation policy”? There is no such thing. Food is provided. It’s up to the prisoner to eat when the food is available.
Many people have religious practices that must be put on hold while in prison. It is not “unconstitutional” for all prisoners to have a set time to eat when the prison kitchen is open. If a molim chooses not to eat, that is his choice, but the prison should not be made to serve food later.
Next thing, they’ll be demanding that they be given the “right” to go to mecca during the time of incarceration and saying that to not be allowed is “unconstitutional.”
Just make the moslim inmates get up two hours before sunrise, fix their own food and eat. It shouldn’t fall on the other inmates that work in the kitchen to have to extend their long day into the night for these demanding creatures. One meal a day should suffice.
Voytek Gagalka says
“Constitutional rights” of criminals? In good old days criminals were LOSING their citizen (“constitutional”) rights while in prison. It was part of their PUNISHMENT.
WPM says
Give them a loaf of bead to take back to their cells with vitamin and protein enrichment tell them they can eat it any time they want and wash it down with tap water problem solved! If they want to fast then fast ,if they want to pray let them pray just let the rest of the world get along with the business of these parasites serving their sentences, it is not summer camp for Gods sake. Maybe keep them in a cell with no windows and the light shut off tell them it is prison time night they can gorge on ice cream and cake ,what the hell do they do in the place were there is little or no night in the far north in June!
DragarOz says
Better yet give them a bacon and egg roll!
WPM says
bread typo sorry
ron stackler says
Many years ago Judge Richard Posner, 7th Federal Circuit, wrote a decision denying a Muslim plaintiff the right to compel a prison to allow him to bathe daily when the prison only allowed weekly showers for all inmates.
John York says
Then there would be no pages left .
Gjallarhornet says
What’s the point in sending people to prison if the people sent there are going to determine the conditions for the stay?
Johm says
The president needs to get involved with judges putting us in jepority with stupid Islamic decisions !
Brian hoff says
First the judge is makeing the state pirson okey the federal law. You Islamoprobic are supporting lawless action.
Carl Henrik Lampe says
The bit by bit implementing of Sharia. I think that what has to happen is that you have to appeal this verdict and if necessary to the supreme court where there is a conservative majority at the moment.
WPM says
To Brian hoff
Please put your statement into translatable English .
Sheri says
Question: Why are there so many Muslims in our jails & prisons?
Question: Is this a more recent growing trend?
Question: CAIR had offices in Everett to train Lawyers and they have offices in Seattle, are these inmates in any way connected to CAIR?
Question: What Mosques are these inmates connected too?
Cheryl Marceau says
What Constitutional right do they have? They are trying to change the “Constitution” so they can eat when THEY want? I didn’t know that the right to eat was in the Constitution….
Freedomfriend says
Why are there so many Muslims in Washington jails?
RK says
This country has become nothing but anti-American spineless Freakin cowards…. they “assimilate” to us, NOT us to them, period!
And they ARE in prison- which should mean they DO NOT get any special anything! -THEIR AGENDA IS TO CONVERT OTHERS DUE TO THESE SPECIAL PRIVILEGES, THAT THEY ARE GETTING AWAY WITH THROUGH CAIR WHICH IS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, SO WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA…. U ARE THE PROBLEM HERE!!!
Hogdude says
This is wrong. Muslims, (or Moos-lims, as Obama pronounces it) should assimilate into our society (ugh). They should not be given special privileges and should have to eat pork sandwiches just like the rest of us. What blasphemy. How heartless to have to eat what infidels eat. How uncivilized for the followers of Muhammed, the Pedophile. Not very nice at all.
SweetOlBob says
Bev:
With all respect; NO THEY DON’T !
We already do too many special things for these uncivilized barbarians !
Where the hell does it say that it is our responsibility to keep them within the tenets of their so called religion. Are we supposed to hold down their daughters so that they can be sexually maimed ? Are we supposed to deliver their children up to be murdered wen they act disrespectfully ? Are we supposed to cheer when by their religion, they are allowed to beat their wives ?
And when they beak our laws because they are muslim and believe that they have to follow only sharia, so we have to give the filthy bastards prayer rugs, a special diet, and a quiet, calm,private place to
pray ?
They are CRIMINALS ! In prison they have NO RIGHTS other than the rules of the prison !
That liberal, sobbing, bawling, muslim smooching judge needs to be horse drug, cat scratched, dog bit, and thrown out of office ! Wherever he is there could be something worth while. Like a septic tank !
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “Muslim inmates have been starved and their health is in danger as a result of the Monroe Correctional Complex’s shameful starvation policy,” said Lena Masri, the national litigation director for CAIR…..”
No, they have only been starved by their own shameful starvation policy.
Where’s that separation of government and religion now?
Everyone should be treated in an equally secular manner, regardless of their superstitious opinions!
BrianMKE says
What is wrong with their commissary if they want to eat outside of hours????