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Jail Hiring Muslim Chaplain After Uproar



NEW CITY, N.Y. - The county jail where a Christian minister handed out
anti-Islamic cartoons announced it will hire an imam for its Muslim inmates.

The Rockland County Jail also said it will provide religiously appropriate
food.

Rockland Undersheriff Thomas Guthrie said Tuesday that the imam will work
one day a week, joining the jail's priest and rabbi.

The Christian chaplain, the Rev. Teresa Darden Clapp, was suspended with pay
last month after inmates complained she was passing out anti-Islam booklets.

In the cartoon panel stories, a tract titled "Men of Peace?" said Islamic
fundamentalists who commit terrorist acts are not "bad Muslims" but "very
good Muslims" who act in accordance with their religion. Another tract,
titled "Allah Has No Son," said Allah is not God, Muhammad was no prophet,
and the Quran is not the word of God. Both stories end with people being
convinced Islam is false. In one, a Muslim converts to Christianity.

Local Muslims have called for Clapp's dismissal, and the county requested an
independent investigation.

Clapp has not commented public about the controversy and has not responded
to messages seeking comment.

 



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