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Catholic school bars Muslim teacher who refused to remove face veil so staff could identify her
Daily Mail ^ | 30th June 2009 | James Tozer

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: burkha; muslimwomen
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1 posted on 06/29/2009 8:33:03 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

No sympathy from me.


2 posted on 06/29/2009 8:34:02 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: naturalman1975

maybe one school ain’t totally lost it’s marbles........


3 posted on 06/29/2009 8:36:08 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: naturalman1975

How can anyone know who is truly underneath the dressings? Teaching kids, testifying in court, operating a motor vehicle, passing through customs, etc.


4 posted on 06/29/2009 8:37:54 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: naturalman1975

On the one hand, I wish institutions in the US had the guts to do things like this. On the other hand, I’m continually finding myself giggling at urban American Muslim women’s interpretation of hijab/niqab. Just last Friday, at the main train station in Philadelphia, I saw a woman with the black veil covering everything but her eyes. Everything from the neck up, that is. On the bottom were way-too-tight pants working their way up into the butt and crotch slits of this way-overweight woman. And this is by no means the first time I’ve seen something like this in the New York and Philly areas.


6 posted on 06/29/2009 8:48:42 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: NYer; Salvation

What the heck is up with this?

Muzzies trying to take on the Catholic Church now?

Why on earth would muzzies want to work at a Catholic school for anyway, if not to cause trouble like this?


7 posted on 06/29/2009 8:52:49 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: naturalman1975

Good news! Thanks for posting.


8 posted on 06/29/2009 8:53:41 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Everything from the neck up, that is. On the bottom were way-too-tight pants working their way up into the butt and crotch slits of this way-overweight woman. And this is by no means the first time I’ve seen something like this in the New York and Philly areas.

Anyone dressed like that ought to cover their face in shame.

9 posted on 06/29/2009 8:54:34 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Yeah. But still, it made me smile. Somehow it was a symbol of the futile uphill battle that Muslim extremists face in trying to convert Americans to their way of thinking.


10 posted on 06/29/2009 9:19:36 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

It shows that they are rebelling as much as they can. That IS encouraging.


11 posted on 06/29/2009 9:23:35 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Actually I think in many cases, the head covering IS the rebellion — against the crass and vulgar black urban culture. The rest is just business as usual. This woman looked like she was probably working as a janitor or something, judging by the pants and shoes. And the pants were probably fine 20-30 pounds ago.


12 posted on 06/29/2009 9:36:19 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: naturalman1975

Catholic school bars.

The UK is way ahead of us.


13 posted on 06/29/2009 10:18:51 PM PDT by NoLibZone (North Korea? The only buildings in Hawaii at risk of destruction are those housing ObamaÂ’s records!)
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To: naturalman1975
Here are the teachers in question.


14 posted on 06/29/2009 11:07:19 PM PDT by jws3sticks (u)
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To: naturalman1975

She should apply for a professorship at Notre Dame.


15 posted on 06/30/2009 12:09:59 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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To: naturalman1975

I’m with the school...


16 posted on 06/30/2009 4:04:23 AM PDT by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
What was she doing at a Catholic school in the first place?

Catholic Ping
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17 posted on 06/30/2009 5:50:33 AM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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To: NoLibZone
Catholic school bars.

In the 1970s, Xavier University served (3.2%) "beer" in the cafeteria.

FWIW.

18 posted on 06/30/2009 5:54:32 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: naturalman1975
Catholic school bars Muslim teacher who refused to remove face veil so staff could identify her

That, Ladies and Gents, is the crux of the matter.

Western Law dictates that the State cannot legally recognize you UNTIL it can verify your identity.

The constant clash between Muslims [and for that matter, illegals in the US] illustrates that point.

Illegals have no 'legal' identity......it's exactly what makes them ILLEGAL.

19 posted on 06/30/2009 5:55:17 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am NOT an administrative, corporate, collective, legal, political or public entity or ~person~)
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To: MamaTexan

Exactly. Besides, a woman in a muslim country that demands her enshroudment, hardly needs an identity. She’s never anywhere without a male relative; no better than a pet, and the govt hasn’t gotten around to embedding a chip in the female human yet.

Anyway, this is a cultural thing, not a religious obligation, so the school can hardly be accused of religious discrimination. Not that there’s anything wrong with a parochial school practicing religious discrimination.


20 posted on 06/30/2009 6:37:36 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Rent this space.)
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