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Wed Aug 31, 2016, 07:48 AM Aug 2016

Norman man objects to hijab-wearing woman's image on Pioneer Library vehicle



by Carla Hinton
Published: August 29, 2016
Updated: 1 day ago

NORMAN — An image used as part of a Pioneer Library System promotional campaign has come under fire from a Norman man who says it promotes the religion of Islam.

Chad Grensky said he recently voiced his concerns to a leader with the Norman-based library system after seeing an image of a woman wearing a hijab emblazoned on the side of a library system vehicle. Many Muslim women wear hijabs or head scarfs as a sign of their Islamic faith.

Grensky said he told Ann Masters, Pioneer Library System executive director, that the image was a violation of First Amendment 'separation of Church and state' because the library system is a taxpayer funded entity. He said he saw the vehicle sporting the image parked outside a Norman post office about a week and a half ago, and he thought it appeared to promote one religion.

Grensky said he is a Coast Guard veteran who worked alongside devout Muslims with the Bangladesh army during a peacekeeping mission to Haiti, and he has no ill will toward people of the Islamic faith.

http://newsok.com/article/5516006

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Norman man objects to hijab-wearing woman's image on Pioneer Library vehicle (Original Post) rug Aug 2016 OP
Does he have that same concern wit a picture with person with a cross on a chain around their neck? Loki Aug 2016 #1
I LOVE this image on so many levels... TygrBright Aug 2016 #2
it's beautiful mwrguy Sep 2016 #4
We have a large community of murielm99 Aug 2016 #3

Loki

(3,825 posts)
1. Does he have that same concern wit a picture with person with a cross on a chain around their neck?
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 08:26 AM
Aug 2016

Didn't think so Mr. Grensky. Heard an absolute slam in a recent movie called
"Hell or High Water" spoken by the character Jeff Bridges played. They were watching one of those phony televanglicals on TV in Oklahoma and he said "Turn that shit off, he wouldn't recognize God if he crawled up his leg and bit him on his dick". How true.

TygrBright

(20,733 posts)
2. I LOVE this image on so many levels...
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 11:59 AM
Aug 2016

WHERE it is: The side of a LIBRARY van! WHO it is: A woman wearing what she chooses to wear! WHAT she's doing: Holding an open book- an image of learning, expanding, opening to new information! HOW that might play out: She could learn things that might change what she thinks, how she acts, the choices she makes... who knows? Libraries open doors to change in so many ways...

The possibilities are *endless*.

It's a totally, totally COOL image and my hat goes off to the Normal library system.

appreciatively,
Bright

murielm99

(30,657 posts)
3. We have a large community of
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:36 PM
Aug 2016

Old Order Mennonites in my area. They have changed a few things in the nearly sixty years that I have been aware of them. They drive plain blue vans now. The women work outside the home as LPNs, and train for this work at our local community college. They work in schools as teachers aides, too. They still dress in their plain attire, and they live on family farms.

Also, some of the ladies work in the library as aides. I have seen pictures of them in the newspaper, and would welcome seeing pictures of them on the side of a van. It would be great publicity. Well, maybe not. Someone might make a stink about it, and say that this is promoting one religion.

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