A Muslim woman has accused a New Jersey shopping mall security guard of trying to force her to remove her head-covering garment.“He came into my face and made a hand gesture like he was going to lift my veil off,’ ” Wakeelah Salaam, 30, told The Post of her ordeal at the Bridgewater Commons Mall last Saturday. “I felt like he was going to do something. I didn’t feel safe in the mall.”The US-born Salaam said the confrontation happened about 10 minutes after she entered the mall with her two young sons.She was wearing a Muslim veil known as a niqab, which covered her entire head and face except for her eyes. Christopher Sadowski CULTURE CLASH: Wakeelah Salaam, at home in Elizabeth, NJ, yesterday says ... Continue reading →
The 14th Amendment, adopted in 1868, overturned the atrocious Dred Scott ruling and guaranteed full citizenship rights to black Americans in the wake of the Civil War. The amendment’s language mandating equal protection under the law provided the basis for the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that ended segregation in public schools.“Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,” NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said in a statement. That’s about as clear as you can get.Those tempted to see the NAACP’s stance as purely symbolic haven’t read the fine print. The resolution commits the organization to “oppose any national, state, local policy or legislative initiative that seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove ... Continue reading →