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  • Theme park shuts its gates after mass brawl breaks out over Muslims banned from wearing hijabs

    08/31/2011 12:54:27 AM PDT · by Niuhuru · 44 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 7:34 AM on 31st August 2011 | By Mark Duell
    A theme park was forced to shut its gates to visitors yesterday when a mass brawl broke out after Muslim women were banned from rides unless they removed their headscarves. Two park rangers were hospitalised and 15 people were arrested in the scuffle at Rye Playland in New York. The theme park was crowded with around 6,000 visitors. Roughly 3,000 were in a Muslim tour group celebrating a holiday at the end of Ramadan.
  • Police arrest 15 at Playland in dispute over Muslim headwear

    08/30/2011 7:28:23 PM PDT · by Nachum · 39 replies
    New City Patch ^ | 8/30/11 | William Demarest, Zach Oliva, Nik Bonopartis, and Renea Henry
    Fifteen people were arrested and the entrance to Playland was closed Tuesday afternoon after a dispute at the park involving religious dress. Police from multiple departments from throughout Westchester County were called in for assistance. The dispute broke out at about 2:30 p.m. near the park's entrance between members of the Muslim American Society of New York, according to Peter Tartaglia, deputy commissioner of Westchester County Parks. Fighting began when they were told they would be denied access to certain rides if they wore religious garb, Tartaglia said. Two seasonal officers were injured while joining Westchester County Police who were...