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Judge Throws Muslim Woman In Jail For Refusing To Remove Headscarf In Court
In the past eight days, a judge in Georgia has sparked controversy after barring two Muslim women wearing Islamic headscarves from entering his courtroom, and landing one of them behind bars. Now, he has prompted an inquiry from the civil rights officer at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Judge Keith Rollins of Douglasville, Georgia reportedly ordered 41-year-old Lisa Valentine to jail after she refused to remove her scarf before entering the courtroom. Judge Rollins pointed to rules that governed appropriate dress as listed by the state.
This is not the first time Rollins had made the controversial call. Last week, Sabreen Abdulrahmaan was forced to leave his court before her son’s probation hearing because she would not remove her scarf.
Valentine was handcuffed by security and sentenced to 10 days in jail when she declined to defend her actions at the security checkpoint, her husband Omar Hall reports.
“It’s an issue of religious freedom,” Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations old reports. “It’s an issue of access to the American legal system.”
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