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Minnesota: Muslim woman awarded $120,000 for having to remove her hijab for jailhouse mugshot

Dec 21, 2019 1:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Every other prisoner is expected to get a mugshot and exchange his or her own clothes for jail clothes, but not Aida Shyef Al-Kadi, a Muslim woman in Minnesota. She “received $120,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was forced to strip in jail and remove her hijab for a booking photo…A judge had issued a warrant” for Aida Shyef Al-Kadi’s “arrest after she missed a court hearing over a traffic offense.”

In her lawsuit, Al-Kadi complained “that the county violated her constitutional rights and discriminated against her for her religious beliefs.”

$120,000. Taxpayers foot the bill for these special entitlements. What about the rights of taxpayers in the midst of this growing two-tier system of justice? Note that the settlement did not require the county “to admit wrongdoing.” And it did no wrong. Any number of things could be hidden in a hijab.

“Woman allegedly forced to remove hijab for mugshot gets $120,000 in settlement,” Guardian, December 18, 2019:

A Minnesota Muslim woman has received $120,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was forced to strip in jail and remove her hijab for a booking photo over a traffic offense, the woman and her attorneys said Tuesday.

Aida Shyef Al-Kadi appeared with her attorneys at the Minneapolis headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to announce the settlement approved last month.

Al-Kadi, 57, said her treatment at the Ramsey county jail in August 2013 was “one of the most humiliating and harmful experiences” of her life.

“I knew that I did not want any other Muslim woman to experience what I did,” she said.

A judge had issued a warrant for Al-Kadi’s arrest after she missed a court hearing over a traffic offense while taking her daughter to the hospital, the Star Tribune reported.

In her lawsuit, Al-Kadi argued that the county violated her constitutional rights and discriminated against her for her religious beliefs.

Al-Kadi was born and raised in Ohio. She moved to Minnesota in 2005 so her daughter could receive specialized medical care.

When Al-Kadi turned herself in, she said, she was told to remove her hijab and abaya, a long dress that covered her body, in front of male jailers. When she objected, she said, she was removed from the area and taken to a holding cell, where she removed her hijab in front of a male jailer.

She said she agreed to remove her headscarf for her booking photo after being told that the photo would never be released to the public. But months later, she found it on a third-party website that charges users to take down the photos.

After taking the photo, officers gave her a bedsheet to use as a hijab. Al-Kadi eventually was told to remove her abaya and change into a jail uniform, while two female officers watched her. Ramsey county policy says that misdemeanor inmates such as Al-Kadi “will not be viewed without clothing”, according to court records.

Under the settlement, the jail has put in place specific rules about how to accommodate inmates with religious headwear when taking booking photos. The county also agreed to destroy all hard copies and delete any electronic copies of Al-Kadi’s booking photo.

The settlement does not require the county to admit wrongdoing….

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  1. Krishna says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    Only in America Muslims become filthy rich for simple discriminations

    • nicu says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 2:27 pm

      In Germany they have extra rights plus they get more benefits than ourselves – they get new houses for free , DSL and phone – for free etc … !! They know how to abuse people – send them back to their shithole countries !

    • Jean Feuillet says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 2:40 pm

      Make no mistake, in Canada also. Americans, don’t be fooled. These 4 words Muruna, Taqiya, Tawriya and Kitman. explain what Islam is. More here https://www.islam-watch.org/139-authors/louis-palme/1095-knowing-four…ivilization-from-islamic-takeover.html?tmpl=component&print=1&page=

    • keith says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 6:52 pm

      Not a “discrimination” but for being forced to comply with the same rules and regulations as the rest of the population.

    • Dan Cox says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 7:13 pm

      But she wasn’t discriminated against.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 9:39 pm

      This has happened in Canada, as well.

    • Save Europe says

      Dec 22, 2019 at 12:55 am

      If she was wearing a crash helmet or hood, she would have been asked to remove it.

      Any head covering should be removed for all head shots 👍

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 22, 2019 at 10:38 pm

        +1

    • StacyGirl says

      Dec 22, 2019 at 2:11 pm

      There was no discrimination. Everyone who ever removed a head covering at a police booking has been discriminated against. She has been elevated.

    • toomanyhobbies says

      Dec 22, 2019 at 6:57 pm

      WTF this is liberal BS!

    • Jeff says

      Dec 26, 2019 at 3:53 am

      If they claim our constition as law, aren’t they denying sharia law at the same time. Or are they the only people who can contradict themselves and get away with it? They’re embarrassing our nation. They will take over our country if they are not stopped. They’re being elected into government for God sakes, they’re our sworn enemy. Why are we allowing this. Pelosi sides with them.

  2. Vivek says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:12 pm

    World has gone mad for accommodating Muslims.
    You can try everything, they will never be happy and will always claim to have been discriminated against.

    • Bob Javorcic says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 3:10 pm

      My hope is that, when one of these zombie women blows a bunch of innocents up with a bomb under he hijab, they are 100% democrats.

    • Lori says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 8:54 pm

      They play the victim card, whenever they please. The rest of the time, they claim to be “superior” to the rest of us. Very adept at using Our Own Laws against us, to further their agenda of Domination and the implementation of Sharia for everyone. search-The Muslim Brotherhoods 5 Steps to Domination.

      • Janet says

        Dec 23, 2019 at 12:57 am

        Nailed it Lori!

  3. Hugh Fitzerld says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:23 pm

    $120,000? These people are being awarded gigantic sums. Can common sense not prevail?

    • James Lincoln says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 3:57 pm

      Hugh,

      I think this is an example of “legal” Jihad…

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 21, 2019 at 9:46 pm

        “Lawfare”.

    • Infidel says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 9:31 pm

      More than that, can’t the city of Minneapolis or the county appeal the sentence – take it all the way to the Supreme Court if needed? Let CAIR be forced to fund a legal jihad all the way to the top

      • Keys says

        Dec 21, 2019 at 11:32 pm

        Absolutely !

        The more this kind of unfairness is challenged and exposed, the more citizens will despise lslam and CAIR.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 9:40 pm

      This is what my husband and I bought our house for.

    • Heidi says

      Dec 22, 2019 at 3:06 am

      Hugh, sense is not common. We see that every day.

  4. rubiconcrest says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:25 pm

    Muslims do not ‘have’ to wear any special clothing. Governments should never settle these cases.

    • lawrence estavan says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 2:25 pm

  5. Brian Hoff says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:33 pm

    The federal government need to shut down all wedsite that charge money to remove mudshorp picture as than criminal bussien.

    • James Lincoln says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 4:13 pm

      Brian Hoff,

      You are embarrassing yourself again. You posted one sentence and I found:

      Three spelling errors.

      Five grammatical errors.

      Do yourself a favor and take a course in English grammar – and use the spell / grammar check available in Microsoft Word.

      • Politicallyincorrectistruth says

        Dec 21, 2019 at 10:55 pm

        Not everyone on this planet that wants to type something here, is a perfect as your highness, so get off your high horse. Or maybe you think everyone has access to education and English is their first language?
        What he writes is true, those sites charging money to remove photos should be investigated and shut down. It’s probably a person that has access to the data system at the police department that is doing it for extra revenue.

        • Tom W Harris says

          Dec 22, 2019 at 1:55 am

          Last time I checked, this was the US of A. Those who don’t know our language should learn it or shaddup.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 22, 2019 at 2:03 am

          This is not just a bit of awkwardness as “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–learns English. There are many English learners who post here, and they are treated with respect. But “DefenderofIslam” has been posting his illiterate nonsense here for years.

          Besides, he claims he was born here in the US.

          Far worse than his mangling of the language are his threats to destroy the Constitution and replace it with the horrors of Shari’ah law–including forced veiling, sex slavery, and child marriage.

        • FYI says

          Dec 22, 2019 at 9:26 am

          The Politically incorrect truth is that Mr Hoff is a persistent defender of the indefensible:his cult.This is an increasingly difficult task for muslims given their koran is exposed as an error-saturated plagiarized hoax,its “prophet” muhammed{please be upon him}a self-confessed fraud{Al tabari 6:111,his failed “prophecies”,his hilarious death by Leg of Roast meat etc}and its god al LAH{“the BEST of deceivers”} a linguistically,theologically,logically and scientifically challenged two-right handed,one-legged idiot of an Arab god.

          I like spelig mistooks:it shows the writer isn’t a commputor.

        • Brian Hoff says

          Dec 22, 2019 at 7:05 pm

          When the doctor delery need the metal tong damage my speech center I was born in America in 1950. Having a mugshot isnot proof of you being than criminal. They need to have mugshot not public record.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 22, 2019 at 10:41 pm

          Good post, FYI. The main problem with “Brian Hoff” is not his semi-literacy, but his constant defense of Muslim savagery.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 9:44 pm

      What’s a “mudshorp picture”?

      And what, exactly, does this illiterate Mohammedan want shut down?

  6. Greg Zotta says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    Another example of Creeping Sharia. Now these Muslims are dictating prison procedures. Minnesota is becoming the Middle East of America.After 911 the refrain was NEVER FORGET. Unfortunately many people have forgotten.

    • paul 316 says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 2:08 pm

      Greg, you’re right. It’s only going to get worse because American’s continue to think appeasing muslims is a way of showing how tolerant and loving we are. The American leadership and justice system with it’s gluttony of lawyers will destroy our culture and freedoms through allowing the muslims to install sharia over the constitution. It is creeping sharia. It behooves ALL American’s to know NOW the evils of islam and sharia before they wake up with a black flag flying over Washington and all state buildings and begin to ask themselves, how’d this happen?

  7. Eric Rearden says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:45 pm

    Law enforcement bungled this one. Didn’t even make a female employee available when the woman disrobed. If it was just her head covering there wouldn’t be an award at all.

    • PRCS says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 6:57 pm

      Absolutely correct

      So many similar situations have occurred–throughout the country–over the last 15+ years that there’s NO excuse for any police department to NOT know the consequences (like the waste of taxpayer payouts) of their stupidity.

    • Politicallyincorrectistruth says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 10:39 pm

      Read it again. She disrobed with 2 female officers…not male.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 21, 2019 at 10:46 pm

        Quite true.

      • PRCS says

        Dec 21, 2019 at 11:18 pm

        Yes, she disrobed in the presence of females.

        But a MALE jailer was involved in removing ‘the veil’.

        A stupid, stupid move by the department which snowballed and unnecessarily cost the taxpayers $120,000.

  8. Tama says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:46 pm

    What, so do they have to destroy all photo records of others bookings at all, or cannot take a photo of booked handbags in future?:p Gucci and Nike have glamorous headbags

  9. Clifford Fodor says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    Next, the families of the 9/11 perpetrators are suing for compensation.

  10. Roland says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 2:02 pm

    Marni Hockenberg has further documented on YouTube credulous foolish Minnesota as it encounters Islam.

  11. Battle says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 2:03 pm

    Remember 9/11

  12. Battle says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 2:04 pm

    Remenber 9/11

  13. Battle says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    “Stench from the bench.” -Dr Michael Savage

  14. Battle says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 2:09 pm

    Bull you know what.

    • bob kelly says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 3:12 pm

      Your right Battle ,
      what one should be doing now is putting up the photos of the prosecutor and all other personal that were in on this decisions to reward this muslim ..

  15. bob kelly says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 3:02 pm

    Who was the prosecutor on this case? were they connected to George soros ???

  16. common sense says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 3:14 pm

    this happening in Muslim/Democrat Minnesota is certainly no surprise.

  17. common sense says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 3:15 pm

    it says my comment awaits MODERATION! my comment has no need to a group of who knows who to decide whether to censor or not. FREE SPEECH FOR ALL>

    • marc says

      Dec 22, 2019 at 9:23 am

      Both me and Robert Spencer decide, otherwise with get threats of violence and genocide added to the comments here by agent provocateurs.
      This is not a limit on free speech in any way, if we were to stop you having your own blog, that would be.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 22, 2019 at 10:43 pm

        Very true. I have had comments flagged for moderation when I forget and post more than two links. This is not crushing of freedom of speech.

  18. Ren says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 4:25 pm

    Pandering to the muslims is the worst thing that Westerners could do. Muslims should comply to the Western rules, not the other way around.

  19. abad says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    Deport Al-Kadi all the way back to Syria and ASAP she does not belong in this country.

    • PRCS says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 11:22 pm

      She was born here.

  20. observer says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 6:28 pm

    Brilliant !

    I’m going to convert, get myself a hijab and then I’m coming on over to the US of A.
    Then…
    I’ll get myself arrested for some reason or other.
    And when I’m forced to take off my precious hijab for the standard mugshot I’ll sue you Americans blind.
    This was something that had never occurred to me.
    What a way to make a living.

    Once I’ve fleeced the American system I’ll trot over to the next dumb Western country under an assumed name (…what’s a wee forgery between friends?) and repeat the procedure.

    I could tour the world doing this.

    Aren’t these dumb Westerners easy pickings 🌜🌙🌛

  21. tgusa says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    The average American citizen is not on board the pander express. A large majority of those with law degrees are. It is ironic that those who hold law degrees are very busy assassinating equal protection and the rule of law. If it all comes crashing down those holding degrees in law who are found to be complicit, well, I hope they have a deserted island with a deep cave in which to hide out. There will be a lot of angry people from all walks of life out there and hellbent on tracking down and bringing justice to the perpetrators. Not even the administrators of justice are above the law. At this time in the history of our republic they mistakenly think they are.

  22. gravenimage says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    Minnesota: Muslim woman awarded $120,000 for having to remove her hijab for jailhouse mugshot
    ……………..

    Grotesque. Criminals have to be identified, and part of that is being able to see their hair. Likewise, identifying marks are noted–including tattoos.

  23. ana says

    Dec 21, 2019 at 11:54 pm

    This is too stupid to contemplate.

  24. Tay says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 7:34 am

    I have a feeling that many more Muslim women will be arrested for traffic violations just so they can go through the same procedure as this woman did. Therefore being in the position to claim compensation should they be asked to remove their Hijabs

    Imagine working so hard each and every day just to survive on a shit salary. Only to read about your taxes being handed to woman like this.

    IF THIS DOESNT STOP SOON. THERE WILL BE CIVIL UNREST ACROSS AMERICA AND THE GLOBE

  25. WyoLyo says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 8:01 am

    Now a precedent has been set and every Muslima that needs grocery money will be going for it. Disgusting!

  26. No Muzzies Here says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 8:15 am

    Minnesota has become a state where Sharia is enforced, by the state’s court system. It can only get worse.

  27. Linda Rivera says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 10:13 am

    America, especially Minnesota, is a country that is very zealous about ENFORCING SHARIA.

    In America and other Western countries, Muslims are highly privileged. EQUALITY for all people is spat on.

    Muslims are NOT required to OBEY our rules and laws because Muslims are regarded by our governments as superior to all other people groups. The rights of non Muslims are regarded with contempt by NWO Globalist leftist ruling elites.

    One Law for despised, hated non Muslims. Another Law — SHARIA for ADORED Muslims.

    Muslim criminals are especially LOVED by political elites who are willing and filled with joy and delight to give Muslims whatever they demand of despised non Muslims, including LOTS of non Muslim TAX DOLLARS $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

    It produces BIG REWARDS to commit crimes if you’re a Muslim.

  28. mortimer says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 11:47 am

    American judges and lawyers are confused. There should be no confusion about matters of safety and security. Think about the weakest link in a chain. A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

    The purpose of the mug shot is so that the inmate is clearly photographed from front and side to help identification in the worst case scenario.

  29. Fred Reese says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 1:42 pm

    Why do we put up with this? TCOB!

  30. John Allan says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 2:35 pm

    Mr. Bumble was right: the law is truly ‘a ass’!

  31. OLD GUY says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 10:58 pm

    If that’s discrimination my mother is in trouble, she always made us take our hats off at the table. Only an idiot judge or jury could find discrimination in a jail house photo op. If we keep letting these people push their insane religious rules, kiss your dog good bye, anything christian, music pork, etc. They will sue for discrimination of anything they disagree with. They do not fit in our society and have no intention of becoming apart of the American society.
    Stop the immigration from muslim countries for non christians, or this crap will just continue until they impose shari law in the United States.

  32. Bikinis not Burkas says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 2:49 am

    This is the same as Cargill giving into the Muslims in the U.S. (large financial payout) for not allowing them to pray at work after I emailed them and told them that the Sharia declares it offensive to pray in a slaughterhouse!

    No checking to confirm, just give them money to shut them up!

    Where did the money go?

  33. kirk says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 10:57 am

    Ahhh cair the jihadis in suits, this is just another type of jihad used by Muslims, wake up America your land is being colonized by Muslims through political and population jihad

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