{"id":4891,"date":"2021-04-07T21:02:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2021-04-07T21:02:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:02:02","slug":"the-many-ways-muslim-prisoners-are-denied-religious-rights-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4891","title":{"rendered":"The many ways Muslim prisoners are denied religious rights in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;a federal judge affirmed that Jake Angeli, the Capitol rioter known as \u201cQ Shaman,\u201d should be granted his request for organic food while being held in a Washington, DC, jail, citing his religious beliefs. It is puzzling that Angeli\u2019s accommodations were met,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/03\/politics\/q-anon-shaman-judge-organic-food\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">not only because the DC jail found no research to show that an organic diet was a tenet of Shamanism<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but also because it\u2019s deeply hypocritical given the treatment of so many Muslim prisoners in this country who are denied, among other things,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/harvardcrcl.org\/the-right-to-eat-halal-often-stops-at-the-prison-gate\/\" target=\"_blank\">halal food<\/a>. This demonstrates how so many white practitioners of faith are not just immune to discrimination, but are even awarded favors when it comes to treatment in prison.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/22280568\/prison-muslim-prisoners-quran-religious-freedom-jake-angeli-q-shaman\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/22280568\/prison-muslim-prisoners-quran-religious-freedom-jake-angeli-q-shaman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;a federal judge affirmed that Jake Angeli, the Capitol rioter known as \u201cQ Shaman,\u201d should be granted his request for organic food while being held in a Washington, DC, jail, citing his religious beliefs. It is puzzling that Angeli\u2019s accommodations were met, not only because the DC jail found no research to show that an organic diet was a tenet of Shamanism \u2014 but also because it\u2019s deeply hypocritical given the treatment of so many Muslim prisoners in this country who are denied, among other things, halal food. This demonstrates how so many white practitioners of faith are not just immune to discrimination, but are even awarded favors when it comes to treatment in prison.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,1047,84,284],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-islam","tag-muslims","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}