Muslims and Jews working together helped change a policy that prevented employees of Illinois' Cook County Sheriff's Department from wearing religious garb while on duty. (Good News).Muslims and Jews working together helped change a policy that prevented employees of Illinois' Cook County Sheriffs Department from wearing religious garb while on duty. The Council on American-Islamic Relations The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is an advocacy group for Muslims in North America; its professed goals are to "enhanc[e] understanding of Islam, promot[e] justice and empower American Muslims. (CAIR CAIR Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR Clean Air Interstate Rule (EPA) CAIR Center for AIDS Intervention Research CAIR Changing Attitudes in Recovery CAIR California Association for Institutional Research ) joined Jewish civil rights groups in condemning a decision that barred a Jewish deputy from wearing his yarmulke or religious skullcap skull·cap n. See calvaria. skullcap, n Latin names: Scutellaria laterifolia, Scutellaria baicalensis; . CAIR also was fighting the policy that prohibited a Muslim deputy from wearing her religious headscarf. "Will the department now bar Catholic deputies from putting ashes on their foreheads during Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday, in the Western Church, the first day of Lent, being the seventh Wednesday before Easter. On this day ashes are placed on the foreheads of the faithful to remind them of death, of the sorrow they should feel for their sins, and of the necessity of ?" asked CAIR spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper. Both deputies are now allowed to wear their religious headdresses but only as long as they wear a department-issued hat over them, reports the Chicago Tribune, |
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