Muslim woman sues for being forced to remove headscarf in US jail

Another bogus case of Islamic lawfare being waged against the West by another "offended" Muslim, supported by the American hating ACLU. A woman is suing because as part of her arrest and booking, she was forced to remove her Hijab, (head covering). It is normal for prisoners being processed to be strip searched to insure they have no weapons or contraband. If the woman doesn’t want to be arrested and processed, she shouldn’t try to cheat the transit system with an invalid ticket.
FROM IHT.COM:
International Herald Tribune
Muslim woman sues for being forced to remove headscarf in US jail
The Associated Press Thursday, December 6, 2007
LOS ANGELES: A Muslim woman arrested for riding a commuter train without a valid ticket has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States, claiming her religious freedom was violated when she was forced to remove her headscarf when she was taken to jail.
Jameelah Medina also said she was intimidated by a deputy who accused her of being a terrorist and called Islam an "evil" religion, according to the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
The suit names the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department and Deputy Craig Roberts of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
A message left with the San Bernardino sheriff's officials after business hours Wednesday was not returned.
Los Angeles sheriff's spokesman Deputy Bill Brauberger said he had not seen the suit and could not comment. Brauberger could not immediately say if Roberts was still part of the department. Attempts to find a home listing for Roberts were unsuccessful.
Medina, 29, a Ph. D student at Claremont Graduate University, was riding a commuter train from San Bernardino to the California State University, Los Angeles station on Dec. 7, 2005, when two officers asked to see her ticket, according to the suit.
"We don't dispute the basis of the arrest," said Medina's lawyer, Hector Villagra. "The issue is how she was treated. She wants to make sure no one else goes through what she went through."
After determining her ticket was invalid, the officers told her to get off at the next station, where a deputy would be waiting for her.
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