Just doin’ our hijab, ma’am
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Here’s one from the Georgia homefront. A judge in Douglasville, GA put a woman in jail for trying to enter the courthouse wearing her hijab, or Muslim headscarf. The judge cited a rule about no headcoverings. This same judge previously had another woman removed from court for not removing her hijab.
As we discussed in 
We take a look at the (alleged) War on Christmas and the various over-reactions to it.
The American Freethought Podcast celebrates its first anniversary today. Whee! Yay! Yippee!!! Thirty-four episodes, a dozen interviews, one ill-considered rollerderby incident and innumerable libertarian rants later - and the public still hasn’t risen up with pitchforks and torches to give us our just desserts. We’ve performed live at a sci-fi convention, waged a War on Christmas, sacrificed Yellow Peeps at the Altar of PMS, and generally pissed off the Baptists. So it hasn’t been all bad.