Missouri county jail to allow Muslim headscarves
8:03 p.m. CDT, April 23, 2012
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the policy emerged from a meeting Monday of jail officials and members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
In January, a jailer forcibly removed the headscarf of a 23-year-old Muslim woman arrested for an unpaid traffic ticket. The scarf, known as a hijab, protects women from exposing their heads or necks to men outside their immediate families.
The new policy will let a woman go to a private room to have the hijab searched, then resume wearing it while her arrest is processed. The jail is researching how to handle the issue with long-term inmates.
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Original post: Missouri county jail to allow Muslim headscarves

that is good, but the sad part is ….how many Muslim sisters are in their jail??
24 April 2012 at 1:14 pm