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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That’s right. It’s hard to know who is hidden under that garb.
Yes, exactly!
> How can anyone know who is truly underneath the dressings?
It could be Michael Jackson for all anyone knows. Or a pervert trying to molester little kids. Or even a muslim terrorist sneaking around up to no good...
(do I get a prize for “most redundancy in one post”?)
I support the school...
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