[ May 1, 2024 ]
This is a ridiculous lawsuit: he signed up for Ramadan, and now he is suing because the prison was “depriving [him] of necessary calories.” But as ridiculous as it is, it isn’t really a surprise. Islamic advocacy groups such as Hamas-CAIR have successfully pursued lawsuits that were almost as ridiculous, seeking massive payouts for a Muslima who defied uniform requirements to wear a hijab at Disney, and more. So Travaile Speller probably thinks that if they can do it, so can he. And there may just be a leftist judge out there who is so eager to accommodate Islamic supremacist demands that he or she will make Speller a rich man. It’s madness, but madness is pandemic today.
“A Mecklenburg inmate signed up for Ramadan fast. Now he’s suing because he got hungry.” By Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, July 5, 2018:
During a holy month when he was supposed to be fasting, a Muslim inmate in the Mecklenburg County Jail still wanted his lunch.
Story continues below advertisementSo Travaile Speller has sued, claiming that his jailers and the Mecklenburg Sheriff’s Office discriminated against his religious practice by forcing him to eat only two meals each day during Ramadan.
“That is clearly depriving me of necessary calories, as well as the recommend(ed) daily volume of nutrients that my body requires to function normally,” Speller says in his hand-written complaint. “They are intentionally eliminating one whole meal (lunch) which is cruel and unusual punishment directed towards all Muslims.”
There’s just one problem: During Ramadan (which took place this year from May 15 to June 15), practicing Muslims are limited to two meals each day. Those are known as suhoor, which can be eaten before dawn, and iftar, which is served after sunset.
The daylight hours are off limits for food, drink and sex, a month-long ban that would appear to cover Speller’s lost lunches.
Inmate Travaile Speller, who says he is a Muslim, has sued the Mecklenburg County Jail for religious discrimination after he was blocked from receiving lunch during the holy month of Ramadan.
“They withheld his lunch during Ramadan? They were supposed to withhold it during Ramadan,” said Jibril Hough, a spokesman for the Islamic Center of Charlotte and a member of Sheriff Erwin Carmichael’s faith advisory board.
“The jail was doing him a favor and actually respecting his faith.”
Both approved Ramadan meals were provided to any Mecklenburg inmate who registered in advance to observe the fast, according to the copy of the sign-up form included with Speller’s lawsuit. Speller added his name to the list on April 30, court documents show.
As written, the form serves as almost a step-by-step guide on how to adhere to the four weeks of fasting. Inmates would remain on the approved list of Ramadan observers as long as they accepted the suhoor meal, did not drink fluids or eat commissary items during the day, and did not join the lunch line, the sheriff’s office said….
Two weeks after the Ramadan fast ended, however, Speller filed his complaint. He says the loss of a month of midday meals violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
“My meals should not be diminished based on my religion, or because of my observance of my religious holiday,” he wrote….
Helping Muslim inmates abide by the rules of the holiday would have required some adjustments by the jail kitchen. Hough says the morning meal can be served as early as 4:30 a.m. while iftar would come well after the jail’s normal dinner schedule.
Islam traditionally has been a popular religion in prisons and jails. A 2016 New York Times article said 11 percent of the state’s prison population was Muslim. At the maximum-security Sing Sing Correctional Facility, 80 percent of the Muslim inmates had converted after entering prison, a prison Imam told the paper.
Jail records indicate Speller has been arrested at least 10 times over the last two years. He has been in custody since January, when he was charged with a series of burglary and larceny offenses….
For now, Speller appears fixed on more earthly rewards: His lawsuit calls for a jury trial, and $250,000 in damages.
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34 Comments
5 years ago
Lack of calories ? why allow prisoners to sue unless they have been beaten up unfairly?
And UN Supports Jihadi Invasion and Islamic Takeover of Non-Muslim Lands after rejecting Trump’s Nominee
https://tinyurl.com/yc88lljq
So why are we funding these scumbags ?
5 years ago
Ramadan, fasting between meals!!! Priceless!
5 years ago
When you have so much inbreeding, it results in this type of behavior. He should be given a “flashlight test” to see if his eyes light up when a flashlight is shined in either ear.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
If you look at his eyes you can see that nobody is home!! He should pass the test with flying colours.
5 years ago
Let me have him….ignorant Muslim cockroach…
Blowtorch to nuts…America is doomed if we patriots do not push back with force…
5 years ago
A couple of good meals of rat poison are in order here
5 years ago
Deport all muslims convicted of any crime. No matter where they are, muslims are a problem.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Creatures like the one above would be a good addition in the primate section of a Zoo as well.
5 years ago
Oh, he wants to play both sides of the fence, eh. No problem. Next time, the prison can give him his meals via the ‘other end.’
5 years ago
No wonder these muslims rape, they are one ugly men.
5 years ago
” forced ” to eat 2 meals a day????
5 years ago
It’s now clear that in America, like everywhere else it seems, there are too many people who believe this kind of person really is “supreme” because of his beliefs and ethnicity and that he really ought to be holding some high official or even be your president.
When we all witness the antics and attitudes of the hateful hard left what else are we supposed to think ?
I’m glad he’s inside and brassed off, his lawyers need to be taken “around the back” for a good “talking to”.
Twit.
Forced labour beckons, no work, no rations.
5 years ago
TO SOLVE AMERICAS PROBLEMS MAKE THIS CHOICE WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES, TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING,CORRUPT, TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT PARTY COME NOV 2018, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTIONS IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT
5 years ago
Reply to
Brenda Sinclair
We are plagued with mental retardation of lieberalism. The left does not know this that it affects them too. Not only their students.
Why this plague on mankind, I don’t know. It just IS.
It seems to affect mainly the party of Demoncraps. Perhaps there is a CLUE there that needs to be investigated. Medically, it might be called The Three Stooges Syndrome.
5 years ago
Ahhh…. Negro logic. We had one for 8 years. Please, no more Negroes. It’s driving me NUTZ!
I can’t even watch movies anymore. Got so much Negroes in ’em in unrealistic roles.
Perhaps Hollowood can give an “N” rating for people like me. Warning: Lots and lots of Negroes ROLE playing to reduce wastecism in America.
Look, I get your point already. We are to LOVE THE NEGRO!! I GET IT!!! But does every movie have to have the obligatory Negro, even when the roles don’t call for it???
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Not just that. So many commercials have their obligatory mixed race couple/family.
5 years ago
Reply to
selwap
I was looking at an AARP mag (not mine) and was thumbing through a recent issue and they said about what people should do or something to stay young, I think..
And it had comic type pictures next to a guide list that said have sex as one of them and the comic picture had what looked like a white man kissing a Negress. Interracial sex, in another words.
They even try to encourage this with comics. Something is seriously and devilishly WRONG at AARP. AARP run by DEMONS.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Only because they do. The MSM, ploticians, ‘elite, Hollowood all practice waycism and FORCE it on you. So I am FORCED to tell you about it too.
Yes, it’s all about Negroes. Not white man. We must bow before the Negro. All hail the Negro!
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
I agree that racial slurs should not be supported. However, I think not all blacks are as tolerant and inclusive as some people seem to think. I myself have been verbally abused by several black individuals in the past because of my background. And justifiably or not, some do seem to strongly dislike white people in general.
5 years ago
The man is an idiot, no surprise there only an idiot would embrace Islam voluntarily
5 years ago
Don’t help the Muslim give them the same as every one else gets.
5 years ago
They should have given him bacon and eggs .
5 years ago
What would happen to him if he were in Saudi Arabia and he stole repeatedly? This lawsuit is a mockery of the US. He would not dare to try such antics in a Muslim country. He is not following the edicts of his own religion, and in addition, he is placing it in an unfavorable light.
This disrespect for American laws has been decades in coming. Lax laws, rights of individuals, and foreigners, taking precedence over the rights of American citizens. Throwing a country into turmoil by using the red tape to bind it, using the castigatory methods of the left to fool the people into feeling culpable.
This has been happening since the sixties. See how little time it has taken to cause unrest of the most acute kind. So very sad. This is my opinion and how I feel about these matters. I hope people will vote wisely.
5 years ago
islam is very attractive to the weak and criminal minds. What other religion commands you to rob, rape, murder for their insane concept of a god. Multiple times a day moslims go to a mosque to be harangued by the imams to perform evil acts with the ultimate focus of islam ruling the world via sharia.
5 years ago
There’s just one problem: During Ramadan (which took place this year
from May 15 to June 15), practicing Muslims are limited to two meals
each day. Those are known as suhoor, which can be eaten before dawn, and
iftar, which is served after sunset.
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Not exactly. A Muslim can eat and drink all he wants during the hours of darkness.
5 years ago
Reply to
selwap
And I understand they do nothing but gorge constantly.
That’s one hell of a fast (farce), don’t you think?
5 years ago
Too dumb even to be a muzzy!
5 years ago
is this a bad joke. well let him starve.
5 years ago
5 years ago
Honestly, no one cares anymore.
