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  • MP tells veil woman 'let it go'

    10/20/2006 3:00:40 AM PDT · by Mrs Ivan · 6 replies · 535+ views
    BBC ^ | Friday, 20 October 2006
    A Muslim teaching assistant suspended for wearing a full-face veil has been urged by her MP to give up her fight. Aishah Azmi lost her employment tribunal case for discrimination and harassment, but was awarded damages for victimisation by Kirklees Council. Her legal representative said they will take the case to "a higher court". But Dewsbury Labour MP Shahid Malik told the BBC: "I would appeal to Mrs Azmi now just to let this thing go. There is no real support for it." It comes as Conservative leader David Cameron warned politicians to consider the effects before "piling" into the...