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A woman who is suing a Wayne County judge for telling her to remove her Islamic head scarf says she was terrified and humiliated by the June 16 incident.
"I was hurt, the way he treated me," Raneen Albaghdady said today at a news conference at the Michigan offices of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Southfield. "I was really, really scared and terrified."
Albaghdady and the council today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Detroit against Wayne Circuit Judge J. William Callahan and Wayne County. The suit alleges violation of her rights to freedom of religion and access to the courts and seeks a federal court order barring Michigan judges from telling women to remove their Islamic head scarves, called hijabs.