2002-06-28 � Sultaana and the DMV
had a drivers license issued to her in the state of Florida BEFORE a bunch of wacky Muslims stole planes and smacked them into buildings. In fact, this is the photo taken for the purposes of said issuance.
Then, some time AFTER a bunch of wacky Muslims stole some planes and smacked them into buildings, the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles sent Sultaana a letter which essentially demanded Sultaana sit for a reshoot. They said that Sultaana was a "danger to public safety" because large portions of her face were not visible through the veil she wears for religious reasons. They said that "criminals are often identified through pictures on their drivers licenses."
She has just survived a summary judgement motion in her suit against the state over this matter. Which for the non "law-geeks" means that Sultaana is headed for her day in court. There will be a trial in which she will be permitted to argue that she should be allowed to wear her veil in her license photo and a jury will decide whether they buy it or not.
Ahem.
I am no lover of the DMV. I have tilted many a windmill in my efforts against them. And it is certainly the case the all fifty DMVs are not fans of us, the car driving citizens. They are set up specifically to make you hate the individuals employed by the DMV and also the organization that socializes them toward their specific breed of bureaucratic nonsense. And with my recent car troubles, I'm even less likely to be sending my local agency a Christmas card.
I say this so that you will know the bias behind the following statement. I hope she hires Johnny fucking Cochran and nails their paper-pushing assholes to the fucking side of a sky scraper that is about to be hit full on by a passenger liner.
There is nothing about this that does not smack of religious intolerance and it should be put down like horse with a broken leg. Look at that thing again! It's BLACK, the color we all want to wear in the sun. And it covers her mouth and nose which means that the heat of every breath is bounced back on her face. And she lives in fucking 95 Degree FLORIDA!
Just try it for a while. Move to Florida and in the middle of summer put on a turtle neck and don't roll it down, or just wear your scarf wrapped around your head like bandages on the invisible man, and then take your dog for a walk. See how long it takes your head to burst into flames. If her God didn't tell her to wear it, she's the slowest learner EVER!
And as for criminal identification--while it makes sense that they would not allow white males to wear panty hose over their heads for their license photo, how many Muslim girls were involved in that hijacking business? How many chicas de Islam they got at Camp X-Ray? For that matter, how many acts of terrorism have EVER been performed by girls? How about devoutly religious girls?
Bond girls are excepted, of course. They're terrorists through and through, religion or no. But it doesn't really matter because Bond goes for the boobies hanging out kind, not the covered in a shapeless bedsheet kind, so it's unlikely Sultaana would catch his eye.
Now, if the department had instituted a policy that forbade scarves for future license photos, that would have been one thing, but demanding that the license be reissued before it expires because it has suddenly become more obvious that there is a radical sect of Islam which wishes us harm--that's shameful.
And take a look at that hologram over her face. It's not like the State of Florida doesn't already do enough to obscure the photos on it's licenses.
Posted at 1:41 a.m.
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