Muslim PC sues after workmates 'laughed at his beard'

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 03/09/09 | Andrew Levy

[TornadoAlley3]

PC Javid Iqbal: 'My beard is an important part of my identity'

A Muslim police officer claims he was forced out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a 'f***ing Paki'.

PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly discussed in front of him how they were ' better' than their ethnic-minority colleagues.

The married father of two also claims officers pulled faces at each other if told they had to go out on patrol with him and forced him to walk home from a job instead of picking him up.

Mr Iqbal says he was sacked after fellow-officers in Luton launched a 'smear and witch-hunt campaign' during which they lodged a string of complaints about his performance.

He is taking the Bedfordshire force to an employment tribunal claiming he is the victim of racial and religious discrimination and unfair dismissal.

The claims will add to concern about institutional racism in police forces.

An employment tribunal in London recently heard evidence that an 'apartheid culture' was operated at Belgravia police station, with separate vans for white and black staff.

[muawiyah]

Guy's beard looks weird.

[LeoWindhorse]

does this beard clip on behind the ears?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

It looks like one of those fake beards in “Life of Brian”. Take me to court, I’ll laugh at it there!

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Must be the elastic band holding it on that made them laugh.

[ml/nj]

A Muslim police officer claims he was forced out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a 'f***ing Paki'.

Yeah, so? Isn't the truth a defense in the UK?

ML/NJ

[Roger_Wildcat]

It does look funny!

[metmom]

His co-workers have a point.....

[Semper Mark]

He’d have to take that silly thing off before
I’d go on patrol with him.

[max americana]

> PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly discussed in front of him how they were ‘ better’ than their ethnic-minority colleagues.

I thought the whites were the ethic-MINORITY in the UK?

[Balding_Eagle]

Look at the picture! LOL!

[eyedigress]

He’s a “parts his hair in the middle” dope smoker.

[vox_freedom]

He combs his arm hair? What is funny about that?

[dighton]

Stoning

[Political Junkie Too]

It's like how everyone in Iraq had Saddam-mustaches.

-PJ

[OCC]

It does look funny, no matter what his ethnicity.

[denydenydeny]

It’s like a Monty Python sketch come to life.

[OCC]

He should have been Amish.

[Dallas59]

Over the top at calling him a “f***ing Paki”.

[AGreatPer]

Looks like a poor photoshop.

Just imagine what the general public said about this guy.