Deputies force Muslim woman to remove hijab after arrest in Santa Clara County, group says
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This file photograph shows the exterior of the Santa Clara County Sheriff s Office on Thursday, March 8, 2018, in San Jose, Calif.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle
The Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says a Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputy forced a Muslim woman to remove her hijab after her arrest in February, and the woman wants the county to change its practices.
The woman whose name was not released by the council, citing privacy concerns called 911 after a domestic dispute in February, said Ammad Rafiqi, a civil rights and legal services coordinator at the council. The woman, who the council said is of Somali origin, was arrested on suspicion of a domestic-violence related charge and taken to the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas.
Council on American-Islamic Relations condemns threatening anti-Asian letters in Utah
Unified Police Department says it has received a report of a letter being sent to a business.
| April 1, 2021, 2:35 a.m.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim civil rights advocacy group, released a statement Wednesday condemning threatening letters apparently sent to people of Asian descent in Utah.
CAIR said in a news release that residents in Taylorsville have received letters celebrating the killings of Asian-Americans in Georgia, and said more will die.
“We condemn this disturbing attempt to intimidate and harass the Asian-American community in Utah and urge community leaders and elected officials across the political spectrum to denounce the growing bigotry targeting the Asian and Pacific Islander communities,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper in the news release. “Our nation’s leaders must speak out against the hate rhetoric ass
Hate speech cases are hard to win. So police, prosecutors use workarounds to jail white extremists Simone Weichselbaum and Joseph Neff
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Douglas Story’s white supremacist street cred was easy to find. He had a white pride tattoo and a neo-Nazi license plate. In extremist online forums he made ominous, N-word-filled posts about President Barack Obama, implying that the president should be shot. The Aryan Nations even booted Story from its website when he sought help for converting his AK-47 rifle into a fully automatic machine gun – a federal crime.
Douglas Story’s white supremacist street cred was easy to find. He had a white pride tattoo and a neo-Nazi license plate. In extremist online forums he made ominous, N-word-filled posts about President Obama: “If someone puts a 30.06 round into the base of his skull, huh ya think? The Aryan Nations even booted Story from its website when he sought help for converting his AK-47 rifle into a fully automatic machine gun a federal crime.
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But none of that factored into his 2012 sentencing after the FBI arrested him in Virginia for possession of that modified gun. A federal judge blocked prosecutors from discussing Story’s white supremacist views, because the First Amendment protects speech, no matter how offensive. Prosecutors could only focus on Story’s illegal weapon.
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