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March 18, 2007
The ACLU Finds Religion
Posted by Dave Blount at March 18, 2007 10:37 PM
The ACLU has gone to great lengths to suppress Christianity, but it isn't hostile to all religions. On September 11, Islam earned a sacred place in liberal hearts, winning the pack of jackals known as the ACLU to its side.
New York's Department of Correctional Services is being sued on behalf of a correction officer named Abdus Samad N. Haqq, who wants to wear a Muslim kufi to work. Uniformed officers aren't supposed to wear visible symbols of their faith on the job. The DOJ is behind the suit, but an initial suit was brought on Haqq's behalf by the ACLU, which complained that his religious rights were being violated. Maybe if Christians started flying planes into buildings, the ACLU's new concern for religious liberty would spread beyond Islam.
The Department of Correctional Services has already changed its policy, according to spokeswoman Linda Foglia, who says that exceptions to the ban on religious symbols will be considered "on a case by case basis." She wouldn't say what the process would be for determining which symbols would be allowed and which wouldn't. The unspoken rule may be something along the lines of: Islam permitted, Christianity forbidden.
By the way, the spread of violent Islam in our prisons is a ticking time bomb.
On a tip from Wiggins.
