New York state jail to hire Muslim chaplain
Decision follows furor over pastor who distributed anti-Islamic cartoons
NEW CITY, N.Y. - The county jail where a Christian minister handed out anti-Islamic cartoons announced it will hire an imam for its Muslim inmates.
The Rockland County Jail also said it will provide religiously appropriate food.
Rockland Undersheriff Thomas Guthrie said Tuesday that the imam will work one day a week, joining the jail’s priest and rabbi.
The Christian chaplain, the Rev. Teresa Darden Clapp, was suspended with pay last month after inmates complained she was passing out anti-Islam booklets.
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Here's a blog entry on the chaplain and the Chick tract:
http://yoelnatanbooks.blogspot.com/2007/04/allah-is-moon-god-and-demon-tracts-land.html
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