Lindh, ACLU Challenge Prayer Restrictions
by The Federalist Society
Posted September 02, 2010, 11:16 AM
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports that the American Civil Liberties Union and John Walker Lindh, who is currently serving a twenty-year sentence in an Indiana federal penitentiary after being convicted for assisting the Taliban in Afghanistan, have filed suit to overturn the penitentiary's policy to allow Lindh and other Muslims to pray as a group only once a week, which they say violates their religious beliefs. Lindh and the ACLU allege that such a restriction on group prayer, and requiring Lindh to pray in his cell, violates his right to freedom of religious expression under the First Amendment.