Attorney in hijab defends call for other women at 9/11 hearing to wear 'appropriate'

[WillowTree]

Is she right or is she wrong.



I say it's inappropriate for a lawyer to dictate what women wear.. who in the hell does she think she is.






Attorney in hijab defends call for other women at 9/11 hearing to wear 'appropriate' clothing | Fox News

 

[Steelplate]

No...in fact, I think they should show up in thong bikinis.

 

[bitterlyclingin]

[Can you imagine all of this going on in NYC with the mobs of Marxist Occupy loons in the background? As far as cultural sensitivity is concerned, they showed no sensitivity to the flight attendants on the four planes they commandeered, nor to Daniel Pearl Death by firing squad is the traditional method of dealing with military. Death by hanging is reserved for criminals. Finish the trials. Shave their beards so as to not interfere with the rope. Have them shower in pork blood].

"Clueless"

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"No Joke: Lawyer For 9/11 Plotter Demands Women In Gitmo Courtroom Wear Hijabs, Show “Cultural Sensitivity” To Defendants…

Take these mass-murderers out back and put two slugs in the back of their heads. Case closed.


(Reuters) — Five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks refused to answer a U.S. military judge’s questions on Saturday in a chaotic court hearing in which defense lawyers sought to cast the war crimes tribunal as unfair. [...]

An attorney for bin Attash, Cheryl Borman, who wore a black hijab and long black robe, told the court that mistreatment of her client at Guantanamo had interfered with his ability to take part in the proceedings. She asked that female paralegals and FBI agents sitting with the prosecution team dress with cultural sensitivity so that the defendants would not be forced to look away as their religion requires."

Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » No Joke: Lawyer For 9/11 Plotter Demands Women In Gitmo Courtroom Wear Hijabs, Show “Cultural Sensitivity” To Defendants…

 

[bitterlyclingin]

Obama, if he loses this November, Narcissist that he is, will probably commute their death sentences and pardon the entire lot, from Khaleid Sheikh Mohammed on down. They'll be back waging jihad in less than a month.

 

[Dick Tuck]

So FOX is now worried about who Coulter called a bunch of "Harpies" feel?

 

[Katzndogz]

Obama, if he loses this November, Narcissist that he is, will probably commute their death sentences and pardon the entire lot, from Khaleid Sheikh Mohammed on down. They'll be back waging jihad in less than a month.

You aren't the first to say something like that. I've heard fears that when obama loses, it will be scorched earth between election day and inauguration day.

 

[bripat9643]

Obama, if he loses this November, Narcissist that he is, will probably commute their death sentences and pardon the entire lot, from Khaleid Sheikh Mohammed on down. They'll be back waging jihad in less than a month.

You aren't the first to say something like that. I've heard fears that when obama loses, it will be scorched earth between election day and inauguration day.

I certainly hope so. We'll never elect some Marxist just because he's black ever again.

 

[waltky]

To hijab or not to hijab, that is the question...

US Muslim Women Debate Safety of Wearing Hijab Amid Backlash
December 10, 2015 — On the night of the California shootings, Asifa Quraishi-Landes sat on her couch, her face in her hands, and thought about what was ahead for her and other Muslim women who wear a scarf or veil in public.

The covering, or hijab, often draws unwanted attention even in the best of times. But after the one-two punch of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks by Islamic militants, and amid an anti-Muslim furor stoked by comments of Donald Trump, Quraishi-Landes, an Islamic law specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wanted to send a message. "To all my Muslim sisters who wear hijab," she wrote on her Facebook page. "If you feel your life or safety is threatened in any way because of your dress, you have an Islamic allowance (darura/necessity) to adjust your clothing accordingly. Your life is more important than your dress." Amid a reported spike in harassment, threats and vandalism directed at American Muslims and at mosques, Muslim women are intensely debating the duty and risks related to wearing their head-coverings as usual.

Sites for Muslim women have posted guidance on how to stay safe. Hosai Mojaddidi, co-founder of the educational group MentalHealth4Muslims, drew nearly 4,000 likes for her Facebook post advising women to "pull out those hooded sweatshirts, beanies, hats and wraps for a while until the dust settles." Muslimgirl.net posted a "Crisis Safety Manual for Muslim Women," with tips such as wearing a turban instead of a longer more obviously religious scarf and carrying a rape whistle. Muslim women in several cities are organizing or taking self-defense classes. The ad for one such class in New York features a drawing of a covered woman in a karate stance. "We're getting so many calls," said Rana Abdelhamid, 22, founder of the Women's Initiative for Self-Empowerment, which offers self-defense and empowerment classes in several cities for young Muslim and Jewish women who face harassment.

Suehaila Amen, coordinator of International Admissions and Recruitment at the University of Michigan Dearborn, is seen on campus, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 in Dearborn, Mich. Amid the high level of harassment, threats and vandalism directed at American Muslims and at mosques, Muslim women are intensely debating the duty and risks related to wearing their head-coverings as usual.​

Abdelhamid, a New York native attending the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, said she had studied karate since childhood and started offering self-defense classes for women after a man tried to pull off her headscarf when she was 16 years old. "Even now when I think about that moment — I have a lot of anxiety moving through the streets to this day — especially with all of the hateful rhetoric because, I don't know, is it going to happen again?" she said. The question of whether to wear the hijab is already deeply sensitive for Muslim women. Scholars have debated for years whether women have a religious obligation to dress a particular way. And Muslims disagree over whether the hijab is a symbol of piety or oppression.

Women who wear a scarf or veil say they have many motivations for doing so, including demonstrating devotion to their faith and showing pride in their religious heritage. Their decision makes them among the most visible representatives of Islam, in a way that men with beards aren't. Well before the latest uproar, it was common for American Muslim women wearing the hijab to be stared or cursed at, or have strangers tug at their scarves. Now, many Muslim women say this is the exact moment when they need to make their presence known by wearing the hijab without any modification as an act of defiance.

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