[Howie66]

Well....no problem here, Abdul. Just take your scarves and go to Saudi. We really don't need your type here anyway.

[BenLurkin]

So don't drive.

Take a hint from the Amish: If you want to be unreasonably peculiar, then opt out completely.

[festus]

When I was growing up it was easy to tell the bandito's. They always wore masks to cover their identity.......

Guess thats all behind us now eh ?

[Lucky Dog]

A driver's license is a privilege not a right. As long the requirements for obtaining a license have some basis in logic and reality, there is no reason they should be changed. The only question to be answered is whether there is a logical reason to see a person's hair for the purpose of identification on a driver's license. It certainly seems logical... It will be interesting to see if a court also sees this requirement as logical. Fortunately, it isn't the Ninth Circuit that will be making the decision.

[rllngrk33]

Driving is a priviledge. If she wants a license to drive she must comply with the rules. Otherwise learn to walk, take the bus, a cab, or get someone else to drive her.

And if she don't like that then she can move elsewhere!

[The_Media_never_lie]

"I wear this for religious reasons. I'm not taking it off," La Tonya Floyd of Mobile said Thursday.

Sounds like a home grown fifth-columnist to me.

[Happy2BMe]

"Some Muslim women in Alabama are upset because state driver's license officials are requiring them to remove their head scarves if they want to get a license."

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[GulliverSwift]

Nowhere in the Koran does it say that women should wear those things. I've also noticed that many young Muslim women will wear the scarf while at the same time wearing very form-fitting clothing. I guess hypocrisy isn't a sin in Islam.

[CaptRon]

Dear La Tonya,

Driving is a privilege, not a right. If you want to drive you have to obey the rules.

Hope this helps.

CaptRon

[Guillermo]

Muslims will not stop until the US is part of a greater Islamic Caliphate.

[brazucausa]

"I wear this for religious reasons. I'm not taking it off," La Tonya Floyd of Mobile said Thursday.

Well good don't get driving license. And if you get pull off by police officer on duty don't complain ok. After all this is not Saudi Arabia

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Muslim women in Alabama are upset because state officials are requiring them to remove their head scarves if they want to get a license...(they)appealed to the state for an exemption for religious reasons, but were turned down...

I was quite upset on September 11, 2001 when seeing the results of similiar "religious reasons".

I suppose that would explain why I'm not terribly outraged on behalf of these women.

[southland]

bump!!!

[winker]

Dear MOOSELIMS, we live in a open society here in America. Nothing is hidden from view If you don't like it go back to where you came from and the sooner the better.

[11B3]

La Tonya Floyd

Any bets that she's not Arabic, but African-American? You know she's not blonde with blue eyes.

[Steel Wolf]

This is stupid, for two reasons.

1. This is not a matter of religious discrimination. No Islamic countries allow women to drive except for Egypt. In Saudi Arabia, they would be pulled from the driver seat and beaten severely for even getting behind the wheel. Even in Egypt, women are required to get their ID photo without their veils on.

2. This is not an Islamic country. If she wants a drivers license, she needs to meet the standards of the law. Given that there is a real need for the authorities to determine that the driver is eligible to drive, and the fact that there is no real privacy violation going on by asking for a photo ID to do so, this woman doesn't have a leg to stand on.

[VoiceOfBruck]

Floyd said she left a driver's license office in Mobile on Dec. 19 after being told state rules require her hair to be visible in her license photograph. She appealed to the state Department of Public Safety in Montgomery for an exemption for religious reasons, but was turned down, she said.

Freedom of religion is a right. Nobody's denying her that.

Freedom of speech is a right. Nobody's denying her that, either.

Driving is not a right. Those who issue driver's licenses get to make and enforce the rules. I think they're doing us a favor keeping people off the road who have a problem following rules.

[JoeFromSidney]

This problem arose when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Turkish law prohibits wearing headscarves (hijabs) on government property, including universities. Some of the university women wor them anyway (the law wasn't really enforced), and insisted that they looked that way, so the photos on their ID cards should include the hijabs. It resulted in a riot on another campus that led to two student deaths. The next day my campus was covered with cops in riot gear, and there was a tank parked at the main gate.

[Pappy Smear]

Muslims upset about removing scarves to get Alabama licenses

Americans upset about removing shoes to board airplanes.

[spodefly]