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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My pleasure.
I feel about as mature as a 4th grader now, but DAMN, that is a really BAD beard.
I wear a beard ... but I’m definitely ROFL at that ridiculous pile of unusually dark Spanish Moss hanging off his chin.
he looks perfectly stupid to me. whats the big deal
Apparently he's the only one who doesn't know.
Probably doesn’t own a mirror.
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