VA Police Delete Photographs Taken by Muslim-American Journalism Student

[marmar]

from The Progressive:


VA Police Delete Photographs Taken by Muslim-American Journalism Student
September 17, 2007 By Matthew Rothschild


Mariam Jukaku is a 24-year-old graduate student in journalism at Syracuse University.

After her photography class on September 6, she started to do her homework, which was to take pictures around campus. She’s a Muslim American, and was wearing brown pants, long sleeves, and a brown scarf.

As she walked on the sidewalk toward her car, she passed the VA hospital, so she tried out her camera, taking pictures of the VA entrance and the flags hanging above it.

“I was there for about five or ten minutes,” says Jukaku, “and I was turning away to leave and a woman in a blue uniform came up to me really fast, and said, ‘You can’t take pictures here,’ in an authoritative, demanding voice. Before I could even get another word in, she said, ‘Give me your camera.’

“I must have said something like, ‘What?’ Because I didn’t even process it, and she said, ‘Give me your camera now!’

“So I gave her my camera, and she was kind of looking at it, and she didn’t know how to work it, and so she said, ‘Set this up so I can look at it.’

“I showed her the playback camera, it’s a digital, and I showed her how to scroll them. She looked at all of them, and then said, ‘Delete these in front of me right now.’

“They were the pictures of the flags and the entrance. At that point, I didn’t think it was a big deal, so I deleted them.

“Then she was asking me why I was taking pictures, and I told her I was taking photographs for my class. So she asked me for my student ID, which I gave to her.”

At that point, says Jukaku, another VA police officer arrived, this one a male. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc091707

[babylonsister]

1. It's "ILLEGAL" to photograph federal property? Since when?

Very worrisome. Any Muslim American must be furious and/or scared of any attention their looks or wardrobe inspire.

[xchrom]

2. the whole fuckin country is just losing their mind.

that was outrageous for them to make her delete those photos. -- outrageous.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Damn that evil John Kerry!

He should have stopped this.

[Greyskye]

4. OMG. The comments are right out of FR!

I should have realized this would show up on your website eventually.
Islamic radicals are trying to kill us, and yet you fixate on something like this.
You say "......The Syracuse Post-Standard saw things differently...."
Of course they did, it is a liberal bias newspaper.
Please, don't anybody post in and even think about trying to tell me I am wrong about that. Don't bother.




I agree. This article is depressing. Not that it was reported, but that it happened. It doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but it certainly isn't right.
As you know, schermak, Islamofacists have been (and will be) trying to kill us for quite some time. That doesn't make these stories less worthy of being reported. It seems to make them less relevant and interesting to you. That's fine.






I wonder if this incident would have occurred if the American Muslim population had denounced Islamic terrorists? I wonder if the Muslim population would not be suspect, if they bothered to denounce terrorists supporting front groups, such as CAIR? I wonder if the Muslim population would not be suspect if Islamic Clerics in the U.S. had not openly stated that the goal was to change the American Constitution to Shira Law?
I wonder if the Muslim population would be suspect if the Jihad handbook did not contain instructions on gathering information through photos, for potential strike areas. I wonder when the American Muslim population is going to stand-up, confront and denounce the Islamofascists who are slaughtering people across the globe?






I wonder if she was casing out the place.
http://www.ocala.com/article/20070901/NEWS/209010342/1002/NEWS&source=RSS

[american_typeculture]

5. You do not have to allow cops to search your property without a warrant.

Period.

[LanternWaste]

6. or just cause...

or just cause...

[B3Nut]

7. She needs to carry this:

http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm

God damned fascistic shit-for-brains assclowns! :grr: :grr: :grr:

Dammit this kind of thing pisses me off!

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[Gabi Hayes]

8. deserves a thread of its own, but presenting it won't keep one from getting arrested, I'll bet,

if one refuses to come across

[niyad]

9. welcome to the fascist states of america.

remember that idiot pol in new york who tried to have a law passed that one had to ask permission to photograph buildings, couldn't be in groups of more than two, and couldn't stand anywhere for more than 5 or 10 minutes.

WHEN are these fools going to understand exactly what is involved in the freedoms for which the unknown THEY supposedly hate us?