Muslim prisoner sues over meal

[kellymaureen]

http://www.bnd.com/336/story/146440.html

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. --A Muslim inmate is suing a southwest Missouri jail, claiming the facility's administrators violated his religious rights by feeding him sandwiches with a pork product concealed in them.

Odell M. Edwards, who as a Muslim is not allowed to eat pork, filed his lawsuit against the Greene County Justice Center this past week in U.S. District Court in Springfield. Jail officials maintain that the jelly is made with fruit pectin extracted from plants. Pectin is a natural substance that thickens jams and jellies.

The sandwiches in question were served to Edwards and other Muslim inmates during the holy month of Ramadan. Jail Director C.E. Wells said officials consulted with a Muslim spiritual adviser when planning the Ramadan menu, and the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were preapproved.

But Edwards said the jelly in the sandwiches contained gelatin, which is often extracted from pig tissue. He appears to be seeking $250,000 per day for the period in which he was served the jelly.

A quarter of a million dollars a day because he was served jelly....which he CHOSE as his meal.  Lets hope that the state does not cave to this, its prison not club med.  Oh...and he isnt allowed to eat pork, but selling drugs is just dandy, lovely "religion"

[Mstislav]

That S.O.B should be lucky he got food to eat. I would have pissed in his food and given it to him with some bacon wrapped in koran pages.

[kellymaureen]

I would have pissed in his food and given it to him with some bacon wrapped in koran pages.

I hear thats what they broke the fast with at gitmo

[Wayne Jude]

When we are sent to the camps that await us brothers and sisters.Will they give us a Bible and a prayer closet and only foods we approve of?I think not!

[kellymaureen]

You wont be sent to a camp by them, they will just kill us, take some of the women as slaves...no camps

[Wayne Jude]

Sounds like fun them coming for me.I would be honored!But It ain't over yet!

[kellymaureen]

No its not over, not by a longshot, but we as a collective non muslim community need to get our acts together and work together, we CAN defeat them, its just a matter of co-operation and the will to survive.

[Merkava]

Why is he being fed ? 

[mosquewatch]

Let the bum starve.

[Wayne Jude]

Kelly,you are right!Politics and survival makes  strange bed fellows.

[Vito]

Uff, if I had power in this country...

[Wayne Jude]

You got my vote VITO!

[kellymaureen]

He will have my vote as well

[MarZutra]

Amazing...