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Kentucky jail made a Muslim woman remove her hijab and televised her strip search in its lobby, lawsuit alleges

www.cnn.com A Kentucky jail made a Muslim woman remove her hijab and televised her strip search in its lobby, lawsuit alleges | CNN

A Muslim mother of two, who was detained at a Kentucky jail earlier this year, says she was forced to remove her hijab and underwent “an unnecessary full body strip search,” which was “filmed and projected” on a TV screen for men and women in the jail’s lobby to see, according to a lawsuit she has f...

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The government should respect its people's belief by letting them practice whatever they want to practice in their private life as long as it doesn't put other people in danger, the moment people interact with the State their religion has fuck all to do with the law and shouldn't be a factor to change the way they're treated and you would agree with that if it was a situation where people were arrested just for wearing a hijab that we were talking about. Neutrality doesn't care if it's sometimes in your favor and sometimes not.
Someone that wears a DNC/RNC hat at all times when they're out of the house wouldn't be allowed to keep it for a booking picture would they? Why? Their freedom to express their political opinion is just as important as other people's freedom to practice their religion.
- I believe the state should be concerned with people's rights, safety and wellbeing and then their confort and convenience. If that means making religious (or otherwise) exceptions then I don't see the problem with that. As long as whatever needs to be done gets done the idea of no religious exceptions is just counterproductive. Again, Sikhs getting to take their knives to school and court is a good example; as long as no hard is done there's no need to blindly stick to the rules since the point of the rules is to improve people's lives.
  Separation of church and state doesn't mean the state's rejection of religious belief; it means religious institutions don't get to participate in lawmaking.
  
  The second you start making exceptions it means your need to draw a line somewhere and you're then discriminating.
  
  Not really? Just make exceptions whenever they don't cause harm.
  
  Or you know, just don't make any exceptions so you can't be accused of favoritism or discrimination?
  What if one officer thinks that one thing is ok but another officer thinks it's not?
  Do you really want more subjectivity in the prison system? Really?
  
  What if one officer thinks that one thing is ok but another officer thinks it’s not?
  Have a clear line that can't be crossed. For example in booking pictures that could be the face, or otherwise enough that you can recognize the person when you see them. Make exceptions in the fluff, so to speak.
  "Everyone has it bad" is worse than "some people have it bad".

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