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Delaware: Hamas-linked CAIR sues state detention center over safety-related hijab prohibition

Aug 17, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed suit on behalf of these women. CAIR attorney Zanah Ghalawanji said: “No one should have to pick between their livelihood and their faith. By standing up for their rights and fighting back, Tia, Shakeya and Madinah hope that this agency will be prohibited from imposing this terrible predicament on other women in the future.”

However, the facility where the women worked say it was a safety issue, not one of discrimination against Muslims. “In a written statement at the time, officials in charge of the facility where the women worked said they were not trying to ‘stifle religious freedoms’ and that allowing exceptions to policy is complicated when the safety of staff and youth is impacted. ‘We must carefully balance our strong support of religious freedom with the need to keep youth and staff safe,’ the statement said. ‘In some instances, a person’s job may require them to do certain actions, such as the physical restraint of a youth, that makes wearing some religious clothing unsafe.'”

Safety concerns are of no interest to Hamas-linked CAIR. The idea behind all these suits is to establish and reinforce the principle that where Islamic law and American law conflict, it is American law that must give way. Also, many companies and institutions, wanting to avoid the hassle and negative publicity of a court battle, have settled for large sums just to make the thing go away. This kind of lawsuit is a reliable cash cow for Hamas-linked CAIR and its clients.

“Women sue state over workplace hijab prohibition; federal lawsuit claims discrimination,” by Xerxes Wilson, Delaware News Journal, August 14, 2020:

Three Muslim women who used to work at a state detention center for juveniles have filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against Delaware officials claiming they were barred from wearing religious head coverings at work.

The women, Tia Mays, Madinah Brown and Shakeya Thomas, claim nobody told them it was against policy to wear a hijab to work at the New Castle County Detention Center and Ferris School for adjudicated juveniles.

Once they began working for the state Department of Services of Children, Youth and their Families, which oversees the facilities, they were prohibited by supervisors from working at the center unless they removed their head coverings….

The lawsuit names the department as well as officials working in the department as defendants. A spokesperson for the department declined to comment on the litigation and said “we are dedicated to maintaining an inclusive environment for all.”

In Thomas’s case, she was told by a supervisor that she “had a few days to think about what she wanted to do — keep wearing her hijab or continue to be employed,” the lawsuit states. She was later told if  “she ever wanted to work for the State of Delaware in the future, it would be in her best interest to resign,” according to the complaint.

In Brown’s case, she continued to wear the hijab and was forced to clock out on some days. She continued to try to work, but was forced to go home on multiple occasions and ultimately was issued an ultimatum: stop wearing the head covering or resign.

One supervisor yelled, “Now you’re looking like a terrorist,” according to the her report filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination….

In a written statement at the time, officials in charge of the facility where the women worked said they were not trying to “stifle religious freedoms” and that allowing exceptions to policy is complicated when the safety of staff and youth is impacted.

“We must carefully balance our strong support of religious freedom with the need to keep youth and staff safe,” the statement said. “In some instances, a person’s job may require them to do certain actions, such as the physical restraint of a youth, that makes wearing some religious clothing unsafe.”…

They seek back pay, financial damages and a court to order the state to institute a religious accommodation for Muslim workers to wear religious head coverings.

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", CAIR, claiming victim status, Featured Tagged With: Department of Services of Children, Ferris School, Madinah Brown, New Castle County Detention Center, Shakeya Thomas, Tia Mays, Youth and their Families


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  1. Henry Schalk says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 2:27 pm

    Death by a thousand cuts. Hamas terror linked CAIR doing its utmost from within to bleed America dry. CAIR operatives are terrorists in suits who should all be locked up.

    • curious george says

      Aug 17, 2020 at 5:49 pm

      Henry Schalk says

      Death by a thousand cuts.
      ……………………………
      Exactly.

      +1

  2. Wellington says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    What a giant parasite and hypocrite the Islamic world is. It will use all kinds of legal freedoms in free nations to advance itself all the while denying all kinds of rights to non-Muslims in Muslim lands.

    Message to ALL Muslims: Your religion is disgusting.

    • Francis Weber says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 4:47 pm

      An Imam here in Australia once stated “We are using your laws against you”

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 18, 2020 at 10:20 pm

        Yes–this is what Muslims do.

  3. Keith O says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 5:14 pm

    I notice they claim, “nobody TOLD them they couldn’t have the head coverings”.
    Now, as this is a workplace safety matter, this will be covered by the appropriate workplace safety documents which covers things like the wearing of jewelry, perfume and approved clothing.
    This would include little things like wearing tight pants and low cut tops around horny, dangerous juveniles etc. which, in any sane world would be classed as good advise.
    These documents are required reading BEFORE starting employment. So for these women to claim that they weren’t TOLD is pure BS and a blatant dash for cash.

    • Robert Porter says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 7:26 am

      The question is, Why are Western countries so idiotic as to take in Muslims as immigrants. They, with their mentally deranged and retarded thinking cause endless trouble. Their leaders make sure this is endless. How stupid and visionless the West has become.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 18, 2020 at 10:20 pm

        Most are in denial over the threat of Islam.

    • Francis Weber says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 4:50 pm

      It should also include loose clothing that can be used to strangle you!
      Why aren’t they obeying the Quran, Sarah 33:33.

  4. GreekEmpress says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 5:17 pm

    More litigation jihad, aka extortion

    • Francis Weber says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 4:52 pm

      Halal certification is is also extortion wher you read Quran 5:5

  5. gravenimage says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    Delaware: Hamas-linked CAIR sues state detention center over safety-related hijab prohibition
    ………………

    More “lawfare”.

  6. PRCS says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 2:43 am

    An excellent opportunity to force CAIR and its army of lawyers to answer the bottom line question re hijab, though one very unlikely to be acted upon:

    Depending upon what exploitation can be achieved from a given situation, some Muslims (like the Iranian government) assert that ‘Allah’ mandates hijab. Others say ‘its a choice’.

    So, which is it, CAIR? Does ‘Allah’ mandate hijab or not?

    What does Qur’an actually say about hijab?

    https://quran.com/33/59
    Sahih International
    O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.

    **Muslim women will not be ‘abused’ by Muslim men: unbelieving women being fair game.

    **Now, why should ‘unbelieving’ co-workers have to tolerate–let alone respect– the supremacist message a Muslim woman’s hijab represents?

    • Al says

      Sep 20, 2020 at 2:27 pm

      I wish Tlaib would cover up ! Yuck !

  7. Mount Zion says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 8:01 am

    There are real issues at hand like the suffering of Yasidi women or the abduction of underage infidel girls by muslims ,recently in Pakistan a mother of a 14 year old girl suffered a stroke in court when the judge ordered the underage girl to go back to her abductor and here we are talking that a muslima’s religious rights are beeing disregarded . The sad thing is that she most probably will get her way , it’s sickening that all western countries bow infront of their demands.

  8. OLD GUY says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Islam the blood sucker of the world. There is absolutely nothing good that comes out of the muslim world except black oil. Without the oil corporations these islamic people would still be living in tents and caves riding camels and marrying their sisters and cousins.

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