Posted on 10/30/2009 2:36:44 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Cambridge University will allow female Muslim students to wear burkas at graduation ceremonies, it emerged yesterday.
By tradition, students are required to wear dark suits and white shirts under their graduation gowns.
Cambridge has clamped down on breaches of the rules after officials complained students were increasingly wearing casual clothes to ceremonies.
They warned the code 'is strictly enforced at ceremonies, and if you do not observe it, you may not be permitted to graduate on a particular occasion'.
Yesterday it clarified that clothing linked to religious observance, such as burkas, would still be allowed.
Scottish students who want to wear kilts instead of the regulation dark suits and white bow-ties have already challenged the rules.
After an outcry, the university said the wearing of kilts, saris and kimonos would be allowed at the discretion of individual colleges.
Yesterday, it said burkas could also be worn under mortar boards to graduation ceremonies, as well as during tutorials and lectures.
Membership of Cambridge's Islamic Society suggests it has around 600 Muslim students.
A university spokesman said: 'Religious dress and cultural observations are allowed at graduation.
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That picture betrays everything a university is supposed to stand for.
WHO is making these wacky condescending decisions over there?
Is that ax they used on Charles I still sharpe?
I think its time to take it out.
These freaks are laughable.
If you don't want to sit and listen to the fodder on graduation day, hire a derelict to sit in for you with a burka
But what about concealing a morter under the burka?
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