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September 9, 2005
MIM: Sultana Freeman's attempt to change Florida law by using religious freedom as an excuse to impose shar'ia failed when a Florida Appeals Court ruled against allowing her to be photographed in niqab on her driver's license photo. Freeman, a convert to Islam who runs the radical Islamist website muttaqun.org ,wrote that "wearing a niqab is a form a Jihad in a foreign land.
Freeman, who is based in Winterpark, Florida runs one of the only American websites which posts messages for Al Muhajiroun, Hizb ut Tahrir and Osama Bin Laden.
For more on the Freeman case and her website see:
Veiled license photo litigant Sultana Freeman aka Sandra Keller "wearing a niqab is a form of Jihad in an oppressive land"
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/174
From Sultana Freeman's website:
ACTION ITEMS FOR THE MUTTAQUN
"So, let's start learning how we can do the things that support the brothers on the front line in jihad, if this type of jihad beyond hajj is something, thru dua to Allah, swt, we believe we should be doing, and Allah the Majestic, the Most Great knows the conditions of all persons."
"Nobody said the path would be easy; wearing niqab alone can become jihad in an oppressive land."'
"Those who have the time and inclination, please join Muttaqun Foundation for opportunities of jihad, and this starts with spreading the daw'ah to the straying Muslims first, to build up the Muslim communities so we can best be prepared to bring in the new Muslims as they are coming in, and they surely are coming in, masha'Allah
SULTANA LAKIANA MYKE FREEMAN V. DEPT. OF HIGHWAY SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES Sept. 2, 2005 A Florida appeals court decision holding that a Muslim woman must remove her veil, contrary to her religious beliefs, in order to take a picture for her driver's license to show her full face. http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/religion/freemanf90205lopn.pdf |
Fla. appeals court upholds ban of veil in driver's license photo
Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/orl-bk-freeman090705,0,2758466.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A Muslim woman who, for religious reasons, wanted to wear a veil in her driver's license photo must follow a Florida law that requires a picture of her full face, a state appeals court ruled.
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