PC Javid Iqbal: 'My beard is an important part of my identity' Posted on 03/08/2009 6:52:01 PM PDT by 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.
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He took off the Groucho nose and glasses for the photo.
It's a fake with two hooks that go over the ears, right?
What kind of cop wants to give perps something to rip off?
Anyway, his co-workers are rude, if what he says is true.
Or Hasidic.
Maybe there is hope for England.
I have to side with the people who laughed. He made himself look goofy.
Ha ha! Funny beard ...
Even Islamic Rage Boy would say "Dude, razor."
ohmigosh, I like a nice beard but that thing is a RUG!
If they did.....
I detect a set up....
FWIW, Belgravia is London's most expensive neighborhood. Not sure if that's relevant, but...
Damn! I can’t believe that thing’s real!
It almost looks photoshopped or something. LOL!!!
If I said what it looked like I would get banned, but...yeah, it looks like he ordered it from a discount theatre supply catalog.
I think he overrates his ethnicity as a source of criticism. Besides, Pakis are, technically speaking, pretty doggone "white" ~ so was he complaining about UK "naaaaiiitives" or "other Pakis"?
Guy has a strange looking fake beard on and he's upset that people laugh at it.
That looks like that little toy you used the magnet to slide the tiny slivers of lead around the man’s face.
And I laughed too. Sue me.
That’s a beard ? I thought it was a beehive stuck under his face.
He could have done several things to make it look less odd.
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