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Detroit: Muslima with Hamas-linked CAIR lawyer sues for being made to remove hijab in booking photo

Oct 8, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 27 Comments

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) indefatigably pushes the notion that Muslims are victims of widespread harassment and discrimination in the U.S. This is in order to deflect attention away from jihad terror activity and to buttress the notion that counter-terror scrutiny of Muslim communities is simply more of this persecution. But actual “hate crimes” against Muslims are so thin on the ground that they have to be manufactured, as in this case. “MDOC says it is their policy is that all head coverings come off for photos.” That applies to everyone, not just to Muslim women, and is for security reasons, not due to “Islamophobia.” But last December in Minnesota, a Muslim woman was awarded $120,000 for having to remove her hijab for a jailhouse mugshot. These lawsuits are a cash cow for Hamas-linked CAIR and its clients.

“Muslim woman sues city of Detroit, MDOC for being made to remove headscarf in booking photo,” by Jessica Dupnack, Fox2 Detroit, October 6, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

DETROIT (FOX 2) – In 2018 Zainab Chaaban was arrested and lodged at the Detroit Detention Center. Like all inmates, a booking photo was taken. Per policy, they asked her to remove her headscarf.

“It would be akin to having someone completely (unclothe) and be naked and have a picture taken,” said Amy Doukoure. “Our client adamantly protested for a couple of hours that she was not going to remove her headscarf and she was threatened with disciplinary procedures.”

Chaaban’s attorney Amy Doukoure, with the Council of American Islamic Relations, says she eventually took it off, something her Muslim faith forbids in front of men that aren’t family.

“She was exposed without her headscarf on, to two men viewing her, and then she was later forced to put that photo on a wristband that she was forced to wear around the facility,” Doukoure said.

Chaaban is filing suit against the Michigan Department of Corrections and the city of Detroit. MDOC says it is their policy is that all head coverings come off for photos.

“A headscarf similar to what I’m wearing today is a lot less intrusive than somebody wearing, say, a full beard or mustache,” Doukoure said.

Chaaban was found not guilty of the domestic-related charges against her, but her booking photo without a headscarf lives on in the public record….

Detroit police and the city responded with a statement saying they are not responsible for taking booking photos for anybody entering the Detroit Detention Center – and are seeking to be dismissed from the lawsuit.

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", CAIR, claiming victim status, Featured, Islamic supremacism, Sharia Tagged With: detroit, michigan, Zainab Chaaban


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  1. Dude says

    Oct 8, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    Was she then raped by the photographer?
    Then no payoff, silly girl.
    We don’t do that – only the desert perverts can’t tolerate seeing a woman’s hair.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 8, 2020 at 8:57 pm

      And mostly female arrestees are processed by police women. The only exceptions are occasionally with *very* small police or sheriff’s departments, which clearly is not the case here. And even in these cases, they will often have a civilian woman present as a witness.

      Reply
      • Ray Jarman says

        Oct 8, 2020 at 11:46 pm

        Gravenimage & Dude,

        The article forgot to mention why she was being booked. I bet she was being booked for breaking a law (or maybe multiple) and in America if one does not wish to do the time, then do not commit the crime.

        Reply
        • gravenimage says

          Oct 10, 2020 at 1:30 am

          Yes–I was going to mention that, as well.

        • PRCS says

          Oct 10, 2020 at 1:56 pm

          “Chaaban said the incident happened in April 2019. She was arrested by Detroit police for her involvement in a domestic situation with her husband. The case went to trial and she was found not guilty, she said.

          “He kept pushing me, like slightly. I fell off the edge of the porch. I went, like, ‘Whoa.’ And I grabbed his arms. We both fell off the side of the porch. I hit my head and I hit my back,” she said. “I ended up being charged with domestic violence, felony assault, malicious destruction of building. We did a trial by jury and I was found not guilty.””

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 10, 2020 at 8:54 pm

          Thank you, PRCS.

    • Pecs says

      Oct 10, 2020 at 1:19 am

      In this news report it states that the Muslim women said by removing her head dress is like being naked.

      Removing head dress In home with family is permitted. Does this mean she is naked in front of family members and is permissible?

      Cool!

      Reply
  2. livingengine says

    Oct 8, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    This letter is in response to WJBK FOX2 October 6, 2020 broadcast filed by Jessica Dupnack titled “Muslim Woman Sues City Of Detroit For Being Made To Remove Headscarf In Booking Photo”

    I would like to draw the newsroom’s attention to the problems with giving favorable coverage to the Council on American Islamic Relations without providing some balance.

    CAIR is on TV hundreds of times in the course of a year. CAIR accomplishes this with stories that are about: calls for people’s termination, exploiting other people’s tragedy, inserting themselves into stories that have nothing to do with them, self-promotion, and hijabs.

    In this case, CAIR is telling us that a woman without her hijab is akin to being naked. They always say this, but it isn’t true. After all, if being without a hijab is the same as being naked, then what is naked?

    Furthermore, the vast majority of women who wear the hijab in America do it because they want to; not out of a sense of shame, or because someone is forcing them to. Additionally, you might be relieved to hear that, even in a world as depraved as ours, there is no genre of pornography involving women removing their hijab for men to look at. This just isn’t a thing anywhere in the world.

    Occasionally, CAIR trips up when trying to sexualize the hijab. Recently, Air Canada staff asked a young woman to remove her hijab at the airport. CAIR immediately went to their routine about men looking at her uncovered hair. The trouble for them here is she was showing men her passport photo that showed her without a hijab.

    A court case in Illinois further belies CAIR’s attempts at hijab hysteria. CAIR is suing the state to allow women to take off the hijab they were wearing in their driver’s license photo. The woman, on whose behalf CAIR is filing suit said that sometimes you just leave home without it.

    If people want to live their life thinking Americans have a prurient interest in their hair, this is their choice. And, we can do whatever we can to help them feel secure. But, it would be folly to enter into some neurosis in order to please CAIR.

    CAIR is using local newscasters to condition the public into accepting CAIR as legitimate, important, relevant, and a reliable source. We are to be as hysterical, irrational, and confused about Islam as they tell us to be. We are to take CAIR as an authority. They get to tell us what to do. Sometimes even on matters that have nothing to do with Islam.

    If CAIR is to be given this much access, and influence in our society, then there is a growing need for the media to pay attention to stories about CAIR trying to get a college instructor fired <a href="for teaching facts about Islam. Why was there no media coverage of CAIR settling out of court over a case of them <a href="defrauding clients and then trying to cover it up? The media should be more interested in the kind of textbooks CAIR wants to introduce into public school system [see <a href="page 16].

    CAIR is going to bring all the mistakes, the worst of Muslim culture to this country. A woman is not naked if she takes off her hijab. Only a man would say something like that, or a woman who works for a supremacist organization like the Council on American Islamic Relations.

    Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 8, 2020 at 8:11 pm

      livingengine,

      CAIR is one of many a “front” organizations of the muslim brotherhood – posing as a “civil rights” organization.

      And they usually get away with it – with very little effective pushback.

      This needs to stop…

      Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 8, 2020 at 8:59 pm

      Thank you, livingengine.

      Reply
    • rubiconcrest says

      Oct 8, 2020 at 9:30 pm

      Well reasoned letter.

      Reply
    • PRCS says

      Oct 8, 2020 at 9:50 pm

      Excellent letter.

      Particularly liked the following:

      “CAIR is on TV hundreds of times in the course of a year. CAIR accomplishes this with stories that are about: calls for people’s termination, exploiting other people’s tragedy, inserting themselves into stories that have nothing to do with them, self-promotion, and hijabs.”

      Reply
  3. GreekEmpress says

    Oct 8, 2020 at 5:40 pm

    Just more litigation jihad.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 8, 2020 at 8:59 pm

      Spot on, GreekEmpress.

      Reply
  4. Frank Anderson says

    Oct 8, 2020 at 6:09 pm

    I think if this claim were filed where I live in state court, the first thing the defense would do is send a Litigation Accountability Act letter and file a motion for extension of time to file an answer or other motions; allowing the letter to have the time required to impose sanctions on the attorney filing the suit. This is a groundless suit, which should result in sanctions against the attorney for all costs and expenses of the defendant. I wonder how the plaintiff’s attorney keeps a license to practice?

    I wonder what kind of reception such a suit would have in federal court?

    Reply
  5. katherine says

    Oct 8, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    Security and ID procedures are supposed to be applicable to ALL so why should Muslims be given special privileges ? They are exactly the group that require special attention considering their past record.

    Such litigation against Standard Procedures need to be made illegal unless the exceptions apply to everyone.
    This has been happening too often in the States – where are the lawmakers – what are they doing ?

    Since when did the US grant Muslims the privileges of Royalty and Emissaries. This happens normally in 3rd-world countries. Americans want to evolve into a giant s-hole perhaps.

    Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 9, 2020 at 10:19 am

      katherine says,

      “They are exactly the group that require special attention considering their past record.”

      Yes, but politically incorrect to note this truth….

      Reply
  6. gravenimage says

    Oct 8, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    Detroit: Muslima with Hamas-linked CAIR lawyer sues for being made to remove hijab in booking photo
    ……………..

    I’m so tired of this fake Muslim victimhood. This is not “discrimination”–everyone has to remove head coverings for booking photos.

    Reply
  7. roberta says

    Oct 8, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    These people are nothing but problems. There is no good reason to even have one in our country.

    Reply
    • ploome says

      Oct 9, 2020 at 2:07 am

      exactly

      Reply
  8. Ade Fegan says

    Oct 9, 2020 at 4:21 am

    Sue her and sue CAIR …… SERIOUSLY

    Reply
    • Frank Anderson says

      Oct 9, 2020 at 7:47 pm

      A.F. Please take a look at my earlier comment and consider the following excerpt from Rule 11 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure:

      (a) Signature. Every pleading, written motion, and other paper must be signed by at least one attorney of record in the attorney’s name—or by a party personally if the party is unrepresented. The paper must state the signer’s address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Unless a rule or statute specifically states otherwise, a pleading need not be verified or accompanied by an affidavit. The court must strike an unsigned paper unless the omission is promptly corrected after being called to the attorney’s or party’s attention.

      (b) Representations to the Court. By presenting to the court a pleading, written motion, or other paper—whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it—an attorney or unrepresented party certifies that to the best of the person’s knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances:

      (1) it is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of litigation;

      (2) the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law;

      (3) the factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery; and

      (4) the denials of factual contentions are warranted on the evidence or, if specifically so identified, are reasonably based on belief or a lack of information.

      (c) Sanctions.

      (1) In General. If, after notice and a reasonable opportunity to respond, the court determines that Rule 11(b) has been violated, the court may impose an appropriate sanction on any attorney, law firm, or party that violated the rule or is responsible for the violation. Absent exceptional circumstances, a law firm must be held jointly responsible for a violation committed by its partner, associate, or employee. . . .

      I would not file such a suit for a plaintiff under these facts.

      Reply
  9. Prince Eugene says

    Oct 9, 2020 at 7:32 am

    “It would be akin to having someone completely (unclothe) and be naked and have a picture taken,” said Amy Doukoure. “Our client adamantly protested for a couple of hours that she was not going to remove her headscarf and she was threatened with disciplinary procedures.”

    I call bullshit. No scarf is bare head. No clothes is bare ass. Difference. Welcome to jail Zainab. Next!

    Reply
  10. OLD GUY says

    Oct 9, 2020 at 10:40 am

    The answer to the hair problem for her is to shave her head. After all when you are arrested you do loose some of your civil rights. I wonder if I should sue if I’am arrested, I don’t want to remove may ball cap because my religion won’t let me show my bald head in public. Women go nuts when they see a bald headed man.

    If she doesn’t want to follow American law she can leave and go back to where she came from, or move to a country that supports her ideology.

    Reply
    • Lilith Wept says

      Oct 10, 2020 at 12:21 am

      It’s about suing and winning. This sets a presedent . Then the next time this situation comes up in a court, the lawyers and mused look for other similar cases…they look for the presedent ent to see how they should decide.
      This is ALL about for I g America to accept Sharia law…to get used to it.
      This is spreading Islam, creeping sharia . If we don’t stop it Islam and isoamic influence will continue to spread. It is a form of jihad.
      Moslems know they are too weak to just fight and comgaue America. So they do things like this, suing people in court, using our system, our laws and our political system against us, all to spread Islam . It’s progress toward their goal,of making America an Islamic country.

      And in the meantime More and more moslems are getting elected to political,office, to all kinds of positions of power,and influence .
      And those moslems encourage and enable even more moslems to get elected.
      All,the time their population is growing.
      When moslems in America are numerous enoug or feel they are strong enough, they will,try to take over. And this spreading of Islamic influence is doing part of the job for them.

      All the pandering, groveling and favoring Islam over other religions is just as the plan of The Muslim Brotherhood bragged, they will take over America with Civilization Jihad and with the help and “ by the hands of the unbelievers” America will submit to Islam.

      I pray that sometime, before it’s too late we will,wake up, just as we woke up against the Liberal Left, and we will ban Islam in America, as a threat to National,Secirity, based on its mainstream, core doctrine that teaches hatred, violence, killing , jihad and complete subjugation of all non moslem people and all non moslem countries…and its aggressive expansionism .

      Islam has never lived both equally and peacefully with ANY other religion. In all casss Islam pushes or fights to become at first dominant, then when iskam is dominant Islam become the only permitted religion….peesecuting and eventually eliminating all others.

      For proof, look at the countries that are now islamic…… These were once filled with Christians and Jews, this is where Christianity was first spread! Now there are no Jews and what few Christians left are daily persecuted, treated like slaves , in fear of their lives that some Moslem will,accuse them of blasphmey, or desecrating the Koran, or disrespecting Muhammed and they will either rot in prision, be executed by a biased court in an unfair trial or killed by a Moslem mob , enraged that they have been not been charged or been freed. …..or if they are able , and lucky, they may flee the country to,stay in hiding for the rest of their lives. As Asia Bibbi and her family did.

      If we don’t find a way to stop Islam dead in its tracks, this will be America and indeed, the whole West …..sooner than you think. Most of Europe is already well down this road……

      Reply
      • PRCS says

        Oct 10, 2020 at 2:38 pm

        “It’s about suing and winning.”

        In great measure CAIR has done most of the winning. and yes, if we don’t find a way to stop Islam dead in its tracks, this will be America.

        I suggest that more of us follow linngengine’s tactic (above) and send polite, factual notes about Islam to reporters (especially those at the local level).

        How many of those folks know that Qur’an 33:59 mandates hijab–in order to distinguish Muslim women from the filthy kuffar? Very few, I suspect.

        https://quran.com/33/59

        Reply
  11. notnolib says

    Oct 10, 2020 at 7:35 am

    The terrorist group CAIR is a terrorist group. Its officers, members, and supporters are terrorists, and should be treated as terrorists.

    Reply

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