Posted on 06/29/2009 8:33:02 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A Muslim teacher was barred from a Roman Catholic college after refusing to remove her full-face veil so staff could identify her.
The woman, who works at an Islamic school, opted to leave instead and now the college could face a claim of religious discrimination.
The teacher was at an open day at the sixth-form college with two female pupils, all of them wearing niqabs showing only their eyes.
After they were asked to remove them to comply with college policy, the girls, thought to be aged 15, agreed but their teacher refused and left.
The incident in Justice Secretary Jack Straw's Blackburn constituency comes the week after French president Nicolas Sarkozy called for the all-enveloping burkha to be banned.
He called it a sign of 'subservience and debasement' rather than of religion. Yesterday, David Cameron joined the debate.
The Conservative leader said that while women should be free to wear burkhas and niqabs, schools were a different matter.
'You can't wear the full garb and be an effective teacher,' he said. In 2006, Mr Straw said that veils could make community relations harder as they were a 'visible statement of separation and difference'.
Earlier this year, another Catholic college in his constituency, Our Lady and St John, turned away a Muslim mother from a parents' evening as she was wearing a full-face veil.
The latest incident, at St Mary's College, is said to have left the visiting teacher 'shocked and upset'.
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No sympathy from me.
maybe one school ain’t totally lost it’s marbles........
How can anyone know who is truly underneath the dressings? Teaching kids, testifying in court, operating a motor vehicle, passing through customs, etc.
On the one hand, I wish institutions in the US had the guts to do things like this. On the other hand, I’m continually finding myself giggling at urban American Muslim women’s interpretation of hijab/niqab. Just last Friday, at the main train station in Philadelphia, I saw a woman with the black veil covering everything but her eyes. Everything from the neck up, that is. On the bottom were way-too-tight pants working their way up into the butt and crotch slits of this way-overweight woman. And this is by no means the first time I’ve seen something like this in the New York and Philly areas.
What the heck is up with this?
Muzzies trying to take on the Catholic Church now?
Why on earth would muzzies want to work at a Catholic school for anyway, if not to cause trouble like this?
Good news! Thanks for posting.
Anyone dressed like that ought to cover their face in shame.
Yeah. But still, it made me smile. Somehow it was a symbol of the futile uphill battle that Muslim extremists face in trying to convert Americans to their way of thinking.
It shows that they are rebelling as much as they can. That IS encouraging.
Actually I think in many cases, the head covering IS the rebellion — against the crass and vulgar black urban culture. The rest is just business as usual. This woman looked like she was probably working as a janitor or something, judging by the pants and shoes. And the pants were probably fine 20-30 pounds ago.
Catholic school bars.
The UK is way ahead of us.
She should apply for a professorship at Notre Dame.
I’m with the school...
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In the 1970s, Xavier University served (3.2%) "beer" in the cafeteria.
FWIW.
That, Ladies and Gents, is the crux of the matter.
Western Law dictates that the State cannot legally recognize you UNTIL it can verify your identity.
The constant clash between Muslims [and for that matter, illegals in the US] illustrates that point.
Illegals have no 'legal' identity......it's exactly what makes them ILLEGAL.
Exactly. Besides, a woman in a muslim country that demands her enshroudment, hardly needs an identity. She’s never anywhere without a male relative; no better than a pet, and the govt hasn’t gotten around to embedding a chip in the female human yet.
Anyway, this is a cultural thing, not a religious obligation, so the school can hardly be accused of religious discrimination. Not that there’s anything wrong with a parochial school practicing religious discrimination.
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