Reality Check

`Prank’ gets teen lesson in tolerance Displacing a Muslim woman’s scarf leads to sensitivity training

David Huffman told police it was just a prank gone wrong: On April 22, at a McDonald’s in Tinley Park, he tapped a Muslim woman on the head, nearly pulling off her headscarf.

The woman, a young mother with her children, didn’t see it as harmless. She was scared and embarrassed; her faith had been attacked. She told police, and they called it battery.

But in a surprising twist, a Cook County circuit judge did not fine or jail Huffman, who pleaded guilty. He was instead ordered to undergo sensitivity training at the downtown Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization.

My notes now: CAIR is giving SENSITIVITY LESSONS? And Judges are ORDERING people to attend them? SCREW that, I wouldn’t go. I would stand in contempt of court.

I do not agree that this fella should have touched the lady at all, but he certainly shouldn’t have to undergo "training" by a PROPAGANDIST ORGANIZATION, and I would file a counter-law suit if I were him.