A judge says a Muslim man serving a life sentence for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing must continue to get meals conforming to his religious beliefs.
But U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson in his order Friday did not require prison officials to make extra efforts to provide Ahmad Ajaj access to an imam.
Ajaj started getting halal meals on the eve of his trial last month after he was transferred prison in Colorado to Terre Haute, Indiana.
He objected to attending classes with the Indiana prison’s imam because he believes the cleric is an adherent of Sufism, Islam’s mystical strain.
Jackson said it doesn’t violate Ajaj’s religious rights to meet with someone with different views and that he still could have phone or email contact with another imam.
(AP)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
6 Responses
and if it were a religious Jew in the same circumstances would he get kosher food and a rabbi to talk with?
THEY SHOULD FEED HIM PORK COOKED IN WINE
Luckshun should he be getting food at all? He’s a rodef.
and if it were a religious Jew in the same circumstances would he get kosher food and a rabbi to talk with?
Yes, of course he would. This is black letter law. It’s shocking that he had to sue for it.
Jews get kosher food and prayer services in prison, just look at Otisville. Prisons and jails make religious accommodations all the time, it’s settled case law.
Vegan without salt.