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Hijab-wearing defense lawyer wants female military prosecutors to dress like Muslims

Multiculturalism: Jihad by other means:  At Saturday’s arraignment for September 11 terror defendant Walid bin Attash, his counsel Cheryl Bormann – who is not herself a Muslim, but chose to wear a burqa out of “respect” for her client’s Muslim beliefs – complained to Judge James Pohl about the way the female prosecutors at the military tribunal are dressed, Lawfare blog reports:

I am not suggesting that all of the women wear what I am wearing, she concedes. But I am suggesting that the prosecution team should make decisions regarding the appropriateness of the dress of female members so that our clients are not afraid to look at prosecutors for fear of committing a sin under their faith.

My client understands that this commission is in the form of a westernized court system, she says, but he and I are asking that the prosecution use some discretion in wearing clothing appropriate for courtroom procedure.

None of the female prosecutors are wearing bikinis, but [prosecutor Mark Martins] does not respond directly to the suggestion that business suits and military uniforms are just too edgy for the delicate moral sensibilities of men accused of blowing up hundreds of people.

Instead, he simply notes that all members of the prosecution team are qualified under the rules of military commissions. All are sworn. And no member of the prosecution has acted in any manner that might tend to disqualify him or her in this proceeding.

Bormann tacitly admits that according to the tenets of “the religion of peace,” it’s not a sin to have the blood of thousands of innocents (AKA “infidels”) on your hands, only to be unable to control your nether regions if you see a bit of ankle or the nape of a woman’s neck. FOX News reports that Bormann made an issue of what other women in the courtroom were wearing because, “When you’re on trial for your life, you need to be focused”:

“If because of someone’s religious beliefs, they can’t focus when somebody in the courtroom is dressed in a particular way, I feel it is incumbent upon myself [sic] as a counsel to point that out and ask for some consideration from the prosecution,” she said. “Suffice to say it was distracting to members of the accused.”

In fact, so much consideration was given Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants that a proceeding that “should have taken a couple of hours at most … lasted almost 13 hours, including meal and prayer breaks, as the men appeared to make a concerted effort to stall Saturday’s hearing”:

The defendants’ behavior outraged 9/11 family members watching on closed-circuit video feeds around the United States at East Coast military bases. One viewer shouted, “C’mon, are you kidding me?” at the Fort Hamilton base in Brooklyn.

A handful of people who lost family members in the attacks and were selected by a lottery to attend the proceedings watched in the courtroom.

“They’re engaging in jihad in a courtroom,” said Debra Burlingame, whose brother, Charles, was the pilot of the plane that flew into the Pentagon. She watched the proceeding from Brooklyn.

Editorial Note: This Ain’t Hell live blogged Saturday’s hearing from a CCTV broadcast from Gitmo and will continually provide updates as the trial gets under way.

 

 

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