http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/georgia-city-adopts-sharia-compliant-court-screening-policy/…after an expletive-uttering hijabi waged legal jihad on the state. Will it take a bomb or smuggling of some other contraband for common sense to return? via Muslim woman, Douglasville settle lawsuit over her hijab | ajc.com.
Douglasville has settled a federal lawsuit brought by a woman who was jailed over her Muslim headscarf.
“We think it’s a significant victory for religious freedom,” Azadeh Shahshahani, one of the attorneys representing Lisa Valentine in the case, told the AJC in a phone interview Friday.
“Obviously the manner in which Ms. Valentine was treated was inexcusable and unconstitutional,” said Shahshahani, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. “We hope that through this settlement, no other people will be subject to this same humiliating treatment Ms. Valentine had to suffer.”
Douglasville agreed to adopt a new court screening policy that allows people with religious head coverings the option of being screened in a private area by a person of the same gender, the ACLU said in a news release. Persons with religious headgear will not be forced to remove them in public and can wear the coverings in court.
That policy mirrors a nonbinding recommendation to local courts made in July 2009 by the Georgia Judicial Council after widespread news reports of the Valentine incident.
Police were already subjected to Islamic dawah training over this case.
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