Head covering keeps woman from getting ID photo taken(By CINDI BROWNFIELD, Daytona Beach News-Journal, 1/24/2002)
Najat Tamim-Muhammad considers herself a deeply religious woman. So devout, in fact, that it may keep her from getting a Florida driver's license.
Tamim-Muhammad, 41, a practicing Muslim, is battling the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles over the agency's requirement that she remove her head covering, a scarf called the "hijab," for her photograph on a state-issued identification card. State law, which also applies to driver's licenses, requires "a full-face photograph."
"To take it off would be the equivalent of some other woman being forced to remove her blouse," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic advocacy group.
Practicing Muslim women are required by their religion to keep all but their face and hands covered while in public...
I get really sick of this crappy analogy. It doesn't fly. For starters, I don't walk around in my bra in front of my dad, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, etc. And, I've seen Muslim women de-cloak in public ladies' rooms, with no thought to the fact that there were other women there. Most women don't walk in a public ladies' room and take off our blouses!