Saturday, April 17, 2010

Toronto Police Review Procedures Due To Religious Criticism - Oh Wait, Wasn't It Just MUSLIM Criticism?


Typical story that splashes across the pages of the internet every damn day now - a muslim makes a complaint to city officials and the entire city's governmental system grabs a prayer mat and bends over to appease the poor victimized islamist.

This is a case where a muslim woman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada complained that Toronto police removed her hijab to check her identity - you know, a TOTAL infringement of her rights just like some Christian young man last winter who had to take off his ski mask in order to prove his identity. So, after that complaint surfaced, the Toronto police have gone into full appeasement mode - I don't know...do they fear a bunch of cars being burnt like in Paris?

From the article at CBC News:


Donald Bevers, manager of corporate planning with Toronto police, is leading the policy review, which began with a meeting involving members of various religious communities in March.
The review includes how religious items such as prayer beads, hijabs and the Koran are handled in searches, and how officers conduct searches when the people involved are members of such religions as Islam, Sikhism and Buddhism.
The changes are expected to begin this fall.
"I think what we have to look at here is, not what has occurred in the past, but how do we move forward from that?" Bevers said. "And how do we also make ourselves better so that we don't get back into that?"

The article makes countless references to "religious communities" but yet every action noted in the article is concerning the muslims. So why even have a reference to "religious" to begin with? Call a spade a spade - this is all part of the soft jihad strategy that seeks SPECIAL rights for muslims in a society that is intended to have equal rights. If you're a muslim, you can hide your face from the law - no one else can. If you're a muslim, you can make threats on an airliner, but no one else can. If you're a muslim, you can insist on a foot bath be installed with tax payer dollars at your community college, but a Christian or Jew can't even pray in the building. It goes on and on. And it will continue to go on and on until the governments of Canada and America finally throw their hands up in the air and just allow the muslims to be ruled by their own Sharia law throughout the land.



Toronto police review handling of religions


The Toronto police service has started an internal review on how officers conduct searches and arrests when dealing with people from various religions, CBC News has learned.

The review was sparked by a human rights complaint in July 2008 after a police officer removed a Muslim woman's hijab, or head scarf.

The complaint eventually made its way to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, where it was settled out of court before a hearing could occur this past January.

Due to privacy rules, CBC News was not able to obtain a copy of the complaint or learn the identity of the Muslim woman.

Donald Bevers, manager of corporate planning with Toronto police, is leading the policy review, which began with a meeting involving members of various religious communities in March.

The review includes how religious items such as prayer beads, hijabs and the Koran are handled in searches, and how officers conduct searches when the people involved are members of such religions as Islam, Sikhism and Buddhism.

The changes are expected to begin this fall.

"I think what we have to look at here is, not what has occurred in the past, but how do we move forward from that?" Bevers said. "And how do we also make ourselves better so that we don't get back into that?"

Bevers said there aren't a lot of similar policies on the subject in other police services.

"We have a chance now to move forward to create a policy that hopefully other services may be able to take a look at," he said.

Police meet with Muslim community
Police are also working on new procedures and training for all police officers, college cadets, voluntary officers and prisoner transport officers, Bevers said.

Police have already met with members of Toronto's Muslim community to talk about the issues.

Rukhsana Syed has met with the police once a month for the past six years as part of the Muslim Consultative Committee. Syed said she welcomes the police's review.

She said it would be embarrassing and "very traumatic" for a Muslim woman to have her hijab taken off in a public place.

Instead, the best way to handle a woman who is wearing a hijab is to have the head covering taken off by a female police officer in a private setting when removal is necessary, Syed said.

"If there is a concern for the safety of the officer and the people around, [then] take [the woman] aside," Syed told CBC News.

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