“A Muslim inmate is suing Somerset County Jail, claiming he’s been discriminated against when employees attempted to offer him Kosher meals in place of Halal.”
But the Qur’an says that “the food of the People of the Book is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them” (5:5), which means that Muslims can eat kosher foods and food prepared by Christians. That makes clear that Sherone Long’s lawsuit is just another exercise in Islamic supremacism, attempting to gain special privileges and accommodation for Muslims, in accord with their privileged status in Islamic law.
Also, imagine if Sherone Long were a Nazi, and that Nazis had food laws. In that case, would Somerset County Jail have any obligation to reinforce his ideology?
“Muslim inmate sues Somerset County Jail alleging religious discrimination,” by Nick Muscavage, Bridgewater Courier News, October 5, 2018 (thanks to Paul):
SOMERVILLE – A Muslim inmate is suing Somerset County Jail, claiming he’s been discriminated against when employees attempted to offer him Kosher meals in place of Halal.
Sherone Long, who filed a federal lawsuit in August, is alleging the jail does not offer adequate Islamic services, despite its handbook stating it does.
According to Long’s statement of facts in the lawsuit’s filing papers, in May 2018 he reached out to Deputy Warden Roger Delin concerning the lack of Islamic services.
Long explained to Delin that he had never been afforded the opportunity to pray with an Imam, as the jail’s handbook states, and he was not given Halal meals.
Delin, Long alleged, tried to organize Ramadan a different way than the Muslim religion instructs. In July, Delin submitted his letter of retirement to Sheriff Frank Provenzano.
The jail staff, according to the lawsuit, insisted that Kosher and Halal are the same.
“In honesty, with my experience in this jail, the administration is biased towards Muslims,” Long wrote. “We can’t get prayer rugs, kufees or oils.”
Long is requesting the court waives his fee of filing his lawsuit.
In 2015 he attempted to file a federal lawsuit with the same allegations, but the lawsuit was dismissed shortly after because he did not pay the proper filing fees.
In 2015 lawsuit, Long alleged that Charles O’Neill, the Somerset County Jail warden, deprived Long of his religious rights over a period of 2 to 3 years by not offering Islamic services at the jail.
According to the lawsuit, O’Neill and the jail “offered Christian services every week at the jail, but maliciously and wantonly refused to do the same for the Islamic faith for inmate Long.”
The lawsuit stated that the jail’s handbook indicated Islamic prayer services are held on Friday in a conference room and Taleem services, or Islamic education services, are held on Tuesdays, “but nothing ever takes place on those days.”…