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Justice Says 3-Week Vacation
By Jonathan Tobin
The overheated response to Rep. Peter King’s
hearings on the threat from Islamist extremism has
now officially gone over the top. In an
astonishing decision, the Justice Department has
decided to argue that a Muslim school teacher had
the right to demand a 3-week vacation in the
middle of a school year in order to make a
pilgrimage to Mecca. It’s difficult to figure the
reasoning behind the federal government’s move to
treat an individual’s decision to make the hadj a
constitutional right
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