{"id":799,"date":"2004-12-08T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=799"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:16:48","slug":"justice_departm_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/08\/justice_departm_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department distributes tutorials on head coverings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released a pair of posters aimed\nat assisting authorities with properly identifying and searching Muslims and\nSikhs.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>The posters come from the DOJ&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/crt\/nordwg.html\" target=\"new\">Initiative\nto Combat Post-9\/11 Discriminatory Backlash<\/a>, and offer detailed explanations\nof each religion&rsquo;s different head coverings. The posters also include seemingly\nobvious  instructions such as &#8220;show respect,&#8221; and &#8220;searches\nshould be done by members of the same sex.&#8221; (Can\none request searches from the opposite sex, or does that cost extra?)<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/crt\/legalinfo\/muslim_poster.pdf\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/dojMuslim100x188.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"188\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>For\nthe most part, the photos on the Sikh poster are effective in demonstrating a\npagri, patka and chunni. But on the Muslim poster, one of the images is sure\nto generate confusion in the field (photo on the right). We can only pray that\nformer Attorney General John Ashcroft doesn&rsquo;t completely lose it when graduation\nceremonies commence in May.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/crt\/legalinfo\/muslim_poster.pdf\" target=\"new\">Common\nMuslim American Head Coverings<\/a> (PDF, 1.5 MB)<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/crt\/legalinfo\/sikh_poster.pdf\" target=\"new\">Common Sikh American\nHead Coverings<\/a> (PDF, 1 MB)<\/p>\n\n<p>My good friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/superjagjit\/\" target=\"new\">Super Jagjit<\/a> was\nso impressed by the posters that he created one for the DOJ\nto offer South Asian shopkeepers in rural areas:<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airportboogie.com\/redneck_poster.pdf\" target=\"new\">Common\nRedneck Head Coverings<\/a> (PDF, 255 KB)<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Hindustan Times<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/181_1142464,00050001.htm\" target=\"new\">U.S. Justice Department issues poster on Sikhism<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released a pair of posters aimed at assisting authorities with properly identifying and searching Muslims and Sikhs. The posters come from the DOJ&rsquo;s Initiative to Combat Post-9\/11 Discriminatory Backlash, and offer detailed explanations &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/08\/justice_departm_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}