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New York: Muslim prison guard wants $8,000,000 for her boss forcing her to take off her hijab

Dec 29, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Any number of things could be hidden under a hijab, but what does concern for security matter when there is victimhood cash out there for the taking?

“Male boss forced Muslim prison guard to remove her hijab: suit,” by Andrew Denney, New York Post, December 26, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A female corrections officer says she was forced to defy her Muslim beliefs when a lone male supervisor demanded she remove her hijab, a new $8 million lawsuit charges.

Maureen Billings, a corrections officer at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, claims her bosses retaliated against her after the 2017 incident by taking her off payroll for seven months, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in White Plains.

Billings claims her captain, Paul Artuz, made her take off her hijab during a meeting at the women’s prison to demonstrate that it could be quickly removed without it choking her, the suit reads.

The woman said she would be OK with taking off the hijab in front of Artuz as long as a fellow female officer was in the room.

The Islamic faith prohibits women from disrobing in front of men who are not of their immediate family, Billings alleges.

But Artuz refused to bring in a female officer, despite the fact that at least two other female captains were on duty that day, the papers charge.

Following the meeting, Billings injured her knee in what was deemed a stress injury.

But Billings said that her bosses retaliated against her over the hijab issue in May 2017 by taking her off the payroll and not allowing her to return to duty for seven months, despite the fact that she had a doctor’s note stating that she was cleared to work….

The woman is demanding at least $8 million in damages, her suit states….

“This is a case that demands immediate attention,” said Frederick Brewington, an attorney for Billings. “Religious accommodations of this sort cause no problems for an employer.”

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", claiming victim status, courtroom jihad, Featured, Jihad in prisons Tagged With: Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Maureen Billings, New York, Paul Artuz, Westchester County


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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    She can’t be alone with men without her hijab? Huh? What about being alone with men PERIOD? This Muslim woman should not be out in public at all without the protection of a male guardian. Why does she just pick and choose some of the rules to obey? She needs to remember that Muhammad said most of the people in Hell are women.

    • Ren says

      Dec 29, 2019 at 4:08 pm

      “Most of the people in Hell are women” with or without the hijab. Islam condemns women.

    • J D.S says

      Dec 30, 2019 at 10:32 am

      Female Muslim prison guard??? What kind of operation would hire a female muslims as a prison guard?????

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 30, 2019 at 9:48 pm

        This is a female prison. There are male Muslim prison guards as well at prisons for men. I don’t think they are apt to be any better.

      • 99pct says

        Dec 31, 2019 at 6:33 pm

        What kind of an operation would hire a Muslim. Just asking for the inevitable trouble. Let her wear her highjab. Death will soon follow. Inch alla.

  2. Battle says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 1:45 pm

    Maureen Billings cares only for herself. Non-Moslemophobia.

  3. observer says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 1:54 pm

    8 million dollars… !

    i’m putting my infidel status behind me.
    for $8M I’m converting, comin’ on over (on a bank loan) to seek a prison guard position, and be forced to remove my hijab so I can sue the USA and retire.

    would i not be crazy to not to give this opportunity my best shot… ?

  4. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 1:55 pm

    She wants $8,000,000? She was out for seven months. Lost income, Bur really, was she being paid more than $1,000,000 a month? What about her true lost income of, say $20,000?.

    Or even better, shouldn’t she be sued for her frivolous — $8,00,000 dollars -lawsuit?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 30, 2019 at 9:49 pm

      It’s all that “pain and suffering” Muslims undergo at the hands of mean ol’ “Islamophobes”, Hugh…

  5. abad says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 2:29 pm

    In a Moslem-majority country, no Muslima would be allowed to have a job as a prison guard where the prisoners are men.

    Let that sink in.

    • Robert Rossi says

      Dec 29, 2019 at 8:11 pm

      Maureen Billings don’t sound very islamic to me .

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 29, 2019 at 10:11 pm

        I wonder what her Muslim name is? She sounds like a convert to Islam. I wonder if she was hired before or after donning the slave rag?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 29, 2019 at 10:17 pm

      abad, she is a guard at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility–this is a prison for women. Generally all prison guards in the US go by gender, and prisons are gender specific (save for a few small prisons, and even these have men’s and women’s wings). Sometimes there are opposite sex teachers, but that’s about it.

  6. No Muzzies Here says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 2:35 pm

    Religious superstitions should not be allowed to go counter to public policy. You make a law, and it applies to everyone or to no one.

  7. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 2:47 pm

    An $8 million hijab. Wow. I write this wearing a hijab,thinking aboiut money. No make that a niqab. I’m gonna be rich, I ain’t afraid to sue, this is America, a land filled with ham sandwiches from sea to shining sea.

    I know what you’re thinking, that I’m a guy. Well, the college professors have that covered too. Just before I put on my niqab I self-identified as a woman.

  8. Tama says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    8 million ! I hardly got anything when I was hit by a car in high school, not even a hospital that could actually look me over instead of saying I only have a fracture fracture collarbone I’ll be fine in 6week. Still haven’t recovered my mobility or had anything really happen and I never did complain to people who might financially do something.

    And working at a jailhouse wanting to be “modestly covered ” if someone behind bars did grab her head bag how much more could she use for

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 29, 2019 at 10:12 pm

      Sorry this happened to you, Tama.

  9. Anna Yelena says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    Sounds like a convert trying to make some money off the American tax payers. POS!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 29, 2019 at 10:13 pm

      Jizya…

    • Scott Carlson says

      Dec 30, 2019 at 3:41 am

      Raise money for terrorism

  10. Shirley Ann says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 3:40 pm

    It sounds as if Ms.Billings has joined the ever growing number of “Religion of Peace” Followers, who are “Making a Living off of the Gullible Americans. She is enjoying every second of her Power OVER the Laws of the USA. I have seen no Photo of Ms. Billings, but it appears to be a Full-Scale Scam & The authorities are so Scared, that they just may Comply with her DEMANDS.
    Who would have thought that 20 years after 9/11, Americans would be ”Paying Tribute” to the Murderers of their Fellow Americans.

  11. Ren says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 4:00 pm

    How about deportation?

  12. PRCS says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    “The woman said she would be OK with taking off the hijab in front of Artuz as long as a fellow female officer was in the room.”

    The Islamic faith prohibits women from disrobing in front of men who are not of their immediate family, Billings alleges.”

    Nope!
    Wrong!

    Dear Maureen Billings: another uninformed, brain-dead, booger eating revert.

    That ain’t what Big Al said.

    But he/she/it did say that your slaves are permitted to see you without it.

    Qur’an 24:31
    Sahih International
    And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.

    And…”disrobing”?

  13. kirk says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 4:40 pm

    America is doomed look to Belgium Sweden UK Canada to see our country’s future, bright to you by the Globalist communist Democrats

  14. MicahStone says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 5:56 pm

    The REAL QUESTION: Is it worth $8,000,000 in taxpayer money for a New York politician to possibly get one additional muslim vote?

    If you think that is a difficult decision for a liberal-extremist d-cRAT politician, you DON’T KNOW SQUAT !

  15. Ashley says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 6:19 pm

    A glimpse into Maureen Billing’s attorney and his “expertise”:

    https://www.brewingtonlaw.com/

  16. Charlie says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 6:29 pm

    If her boss was Muslim, he would have had her beheaded, so she’s lucky:-)

  17. gravenimage says

    Dec 29, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    New York: Muslim prison guard wants $8,000,000 for her boss forcing her to take off her hijab

    Billings claims her captain, Paul Artuz, made her take off her hijab during a meeting at the women’s prison to demonstrate that it could be quickly removed without it choking her, the suit reads.
    ………………..

    In other words, her captain was trying to show that this guard wearing a Hijab would not interfere with her performing her duties–that he was not “Islamophobic”.

    We see what good *that* did him.

    One of my brothers has a good friend and former roommate who is a guard at Folsom prison in California. Every day both checking in and clocking out he is subject to a full body search. He said that far from considering it intrusive that given what could be smuggled in or out of this prison that he would not have it any other way.

    Note that Bedford Hills Correctional Facility is also a maximum security prison. How they would allow anyone to wear this kind of headgear and not require its removal at least twice a day shows just how far gone many parts of the West already are.

  18. Scott Carlson says

    Dec 30, 2019 at 3:36 am

    This is pure Islamic psychological terrorism in it’s rawest form. I bet it was all planned. #HateCrimeHoax and the money will go to terrorism if she wins. This is the second case I heard so far in just two weeks. The last one was a criminal that was arrested and sued and won $800, 000 for having to take of her hijab.

    These Muslims are even scamming money for their political campaign in Facebook. I saw 6 of them off just one page. His is why I don’t donate to any of those fake charities. They also have fake go fund me scams as well as other fake charities pretending to be real organizations. I looked up a few and found out they didn’t even exist and the others were copycats.

  19. Michael says

    Dec 30, 2019 at 5:48 am

    If I was inside and she came next to me I’d take that thing of her head and neck her with it.

  20. Lynn Moser says

    Dec 30, 2019 at 8:31 am

    Why did they even hire her? THAT’S the question…These moslems are looking for test cases…tests of consequences which Americans fail on a daily basis. We give in to their silly demands. New York Dems are making the state and citizens dhimmis.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 30, 2019 at 9:51 pm

      Given her very un-Islamic name, it is possible that she wasn’t Muslim when they hired her. They are idiots if she was.

  21. Lynn Miller says

    Dec 30, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    The supervisor was trying to determine if the guard was at risk of attack by the inmates because of her head scarf. He was concerned about her safety and that of other guards who might be called upon to engage the prisoner who had attacked her by strangling her with her hijab. No good deed goes unpunished.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 30, 2019 at 9:52 pm

      Spot on, Lynn.

  22. Linda Rivera says

    Dec 30, 2019 at 2:21 pm

    WARNING to all prospective employers of Muslims: Hire Muslims at your peril. Muslims may BANKRUPT your business unless you’re a very wealthy corporation.

    ALL Muslims are supremacists who believe they’re far superior to all non Muslims. And that non Muslims must OBEY Muslims. In Islam — Sharia, non Muslims are DEHUMANIZED and have NO rights.

    It’s shameful and evil to give Muslims special rights and privileges not given to any other people.

    Muslims OPPOSE non Muslim laws and rules.

    Muslims demand that their non Muslim employers OBEY their Muslim employees. If not, greedy, disloyal Muslim employees sue for HIGHLY COVETED money $$$$$$$$$$$$$
    $$$$$$$$$$$

    A Mafia type racket.

    • AleX says

      Dec 31, 2019 at 12:12 am

      @Linda Rivera
      There are hundreds of posting on barenakedislam on the topic ‘Reason # NOT to hire a muslim’.
      It is worth reading this particular part of said blog.
      Also, I appreciate you presence there too!
      My compliments, Linda!

  23. OLD GUY says

    Dec 30, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    Tell her to go to hell along with her islamic religion of hate.

  24. Ashley says

    Dec 31, 2019 at 2:49 pm

    Oh for goodness sakes:

    https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/31/muslim-fast-food-worker-says-boss-sent-home-turning-work-hijab-11983309/

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 31, 2019 at 11:21 pm

      More fake Muslim victimhood.

  25. John Allan says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 8:28 am

    Fu_king expensive face covering. And an ugly face, to boot.

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