News 18-12-2008: Georgia judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf (AP)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_re_us/muslim_headscarf_arrest

ATLANTA – A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint said Wednesday that she felt her human and civil rights were violated. A judge ordered Lisa Valentine, 40, to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court, said police in Douglasville, a city of about 20,000 people on Atlanta's west suburban outskirts.

Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said after they arrested her Tuesday.

Kelley Jackson, a spokeswoman for Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, said state law doesn't permit or prohibit head scarfs.

"It's at the discretion of the judge and the sheriffs and is up to the security officers in the court house to enforce their decision," she said.

Valentine, who recently moved to Georgia from New Haven, Conn., said the incident reminded her of stories she'd heard of the civil rights-era South.

"I just felt stripped of my civil, my human rights," she said Wednesday from her home. She said she was unexpectedly released after the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations urged federal authorities to investigate the incident as well as others in Georgia.

The group cited a report that the same judge removed a woman and her 14-year-old daughter from the courtroom last week because they were wearing Muslim head scarves.

Jail officials declined to say why she was freed and municipal Court Judge Keith Rollins said that "it would not be appropriate" for him to comment on the case.

Last year, a judge in Valdosta in southern Georgia barred a Muslim woman from entering a courtroom because she would not remove her head scarf. There have been similar cases in other states, including Michigan, where a Muslim woman in Detroit filed a federal lawsuit in February 2007 after a judge dismissed her small-claims court case when she refused to remove a head and face veil.

Valentine's husband, Omar Hall, said his wife was accompanying her nephew to a traffic citation hearing when officials stopped her at the metal detector and told her she would not be allowed in the courtroom with the head scarf, known as a hijab.

Hall said Valentine, an insurance underwriter, told the bailiff that she had been in courtrooms before with the scarf on and that removing it would be a religious violation. When she turned to leave and uttered an expletive, Hall said a bailiff handcuffed her and took her before the judge.

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Associated Press writer Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this report.


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This is not right.
She's not wearing veil to cover all over her face. She just wore simple jilbab.

Hopefully we will hear less of such news after Obama is president.
Amin.

Dua...Coret

Alhamdulillah lagi...
Asisten satu lagi udah dateng.
Pembokat? Oh bukan...cuman kursi goyang anak alias bouncer :D
Namanya Fisher Price Infant-to-Toddler Portable Rocker.
Harapannya sih asisten yang ini bisa bantuin nenangin baby buat ditinggal-tinggal ngerjain yang lain.

Gue ngidam ini (waktu itu yang tipe non-portable) udah dari sejak hamil Dellynn kayaknya. Gara-gara racunan temen. Bisa dipake dari newborn sampe 18-20kg. Lah 18-20kg mah klo anak gue sampe 5-6th kali :D. Si Darris aja beratnya masi masuk tapi kakinya dah mulai kepanjangan...heheheh. Kata temen gue, dia belinya 350an tahun 2005.
Tapi waktu itu gue telponin babyshop se-Ambas pada kosong semua. Nemu-nemu di Kids Station harganya 1,150jt UDAH DISKON :P
Ogeng klo sejuta lebih mah, harga aslinya aja cuman $38 kok.

Pas brosing-brosing liat penampakan stroller di babyshop Semarang sini, gue sempet liat ada bouncer/rocker ini. Persis plek sama yg di Kids Station sejuta itu. Tapi sekarang harganya 1,699jt.
Set daaaaahhhhh...!! Nginyem doang dehh...

Eh, tau-tau nemu di MP Nelson ini ada yang versi portable alias bisa dilipet. Brosing harga aslinya, $50. Ya udah, mayan tipis selisih harganya ama harga Nelson. Lagian katakanlah beli sendiri onlen langsung dari US, palingan jatuhnya harga kurleb sama aja kena bea masuk ama ongkir. Jadi yah, samber aja dah. Masuk toko disini juga palingan lebih dari 1.7jt :D. Soalnya yg 1.7jt itu aja versi yang non-portable, yang $38. Sementara yang gue beli yang $50, versi portable, dan blon pernah liat di sini.

Bukti kesaktiannya bisa dilihat di foto :D

Babysitter

Semalem kontrol lagi ke Hermina.
Briefly, si baby mukanya antara Darris dan Dellynn :D
Kata dokter alhamdulillah semua normal. Plasenta juga walo posisi rada dibawah tapi kecil kemungkinan previa. Dan kemungkinan cowo makin bertambah soalnya kemaren ada yang kayak monasnya :D

Hubungannya sama judulnya apaaaaaaaaa??
Iya belon sampe situ :D

Gue...
Sama sekali ngga against babysitter ato asisten dalam bentuk apapun. Konteksnya disini dalam pengurusan bayi dan anak yah, bukan rumah tangga secara umum. Cuman gue selalu ngerasa miris dan tersayat di hati kalo ngeliat baby, terutama dibawah setahun yang meringkuk di gendongan si babysitter sambil kadang kalem ngedot. Lebay ga sih gue? Tapi gue bener-bener ngerasa kek sakit ati gituh ngeliatnya.

Seperti semalem di Hermina.
Gue liat ada sepasang suami istri, anaknya kira-kira 4 bulanan. Ngedot di gendongan babysitternya (pake seragam BS gitu). Gue ga liat ada anak lain yang mungkin kakak dari bayi itu. Gue liat si emak bawaannya kuitansi ama tas cangklong, si bapak gotong tas baby.
Jadi itu emak-bapak ga lagi repot ngasuh anak-anak lain dong yah?

Mbok yaaaaaaaa...babynya itu digendong salah satu ortu kenapa???
Klo si emak repot bebayaran, ya si bapak laaaahhh...
Emang itu anak si BS??
Si BS mah suruh gotong-gotong tas baby aja. Tas baby mana perlu bonding?
Kalo perlu si emak bapak itu duduk manis pangku baby sambil ngudang (apa sih bahasa Indonesianya ngudang? maksudnya ngajak main, interaksi, stimulasi, godain, gitu-gitu deh...) ke si baby, sementara si BS aja suruh kelilingan ngantri dan bebayaran.

BS jobdesc-nya bukannya asisten emak ngurusin anak yah? To assist, MEMBANTU. Bukan being the baby's primary caregiver (mbuh bahasa gue bener gak :P), pengasuh utama si bayi. Ya kalo emak bapaknya lagi ga ada, katakanlah dua-duanya kerja mah lain lagi critanya yak. Lha ini dua-duanya ada! Dan malah pada gembol barang-barang gak penting gitu loh. Gregetan gue! (gregetan apa sih indonya? gemes kali yah?)

Baby, apalagi dibawah setahun, lagi penting-pentingnya butuh bonding. Butuh dua orang tuanya. Ato etlis salah satu lah, biasanya si emak, dan paling gampang lewat jalur ngasih ASI. Bonding ini memenuhi kebutuhannya akan keamanan, kenyamanan, dan kesejahteraan terutama psikologis. Jaminan bahwa dia ngga ditelantarkan. Jaminan bahwa dia hidup di luar perut itu kondisinya tetep seperti di dalam perut. Penuh pelukan, hangat, selalu dekat jantung hati ibu, selalu dengar suara ibu, selalu jadi bagian dari ibu...
Kalo ibu capek, overwhelmed, emosi kacau, ya bagian bapaknya toh. Sekedar gendong, ayun-ayun, ngajak main, kelitikin, bahkan jadi breastfeeding father pun masi bisa.

Bear in mind, it's YOUR BABY! It's YOUR BLESSING!
Emak doang, ato bapak doang gak mungkin jadi jadi anak.
Emak sama bapak jadi tim aja blon tentu jadi kok klo ngga ada campur tangan yang Niupin Napas.
Syukurilah udah diberkahin anak...
Ga kurang diluar sana yang sampe nangis bertahun-tahun karena pengen diberkahin anak...
Ga kurang gue denger cerita temen yang tiap bulan nangis tiap dapet mens...

Semoga gue sendiri masi terus bisa berperan sebagai ibu, bukan sekedar seksi hamil dan melahirkan...
Semoga DJ masi terus bisa berperan sebagai ayah, bukan sekedar setor bibit...
Amiiinn...

keterangan foto: Darris Dellynn usia 3 bulan