Rockland County, NY – The Rockland County jail will hire a Muslim imam and is providing ritually correct food to inmates as part of the response to allegations of discrimination following the jail chaplain’s distribution of anti-Islam tracts.
The imam would work one day per week, and additionally as needed for special cases. Those are the same terms governing the way a rabbi and a priest are currently contracted to work at the jail, Undersheriff Thomas Guthrie said.
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Teresa Darden Clapp, an ordained Christian minister and the jail’s chaplain, was suspended last month for passing out religious cartoon booklets that condemned Islam and contained derogatory depictions and descriptions of Muslims.
The county has ordered an independent investigation into Clapp’s actions. Jail officials ordered the tracts removed when the learned of the incident through an inmate’s complaints. [The Journal News]
Finally there is a IMAM, now i can go to jail peacfully.