Muslim Wins Veil Lawsuit

[michael_ital]

Oct. 19, 2006. 02:00 PM
ASSOCIATED PRESS


LONDON — A Muslim teaching assistant, suspended after she refused to remove a veil during lessons, won a victimization suit against her school today.

But Aishah Azmi, 24, who had insisted on wearing a niqab — covering all but a small part of her face — during lessons, lost two key claims of discrimination and harassment against the employer.

Her case had become the centre of a wide-ranging debate over the decision of some Muslim women to wear full veils and wider issues of the participation of religious groups in British society. Reacting to the case, Prime Minister Tony Blair called the religious dress a ``mark of separation."

Blair said he backed the local education authority's decision to suspend Azmi from her job teaching 11-year-old children at Headfield Church of England Junior School, in Dewsbury, northern England.

Azmi acknowledged that she had not worn her veil during an interview for the role, assisting children who speak English as a second language.

An employment tribunal awarded her the equivalent of $2,125 Canadian for injury to her feelings following her victimization at the school. However the tribunal panel rejected allegations she had been subjected to direct and indirect discrimination and harassment.

Azmi, wearing a black niqab, told a news conference in Leeds, northern England, she would appeal against the decision to reject her claims of discrimination and harassment.

"Muslim women who wear the veil are not aliens, and politicians need to recognize that what they say can have a very dangerous impact on the lives of the minorities they treat as outcasts," Azmi said.

"Integration requires people like me to be in the workplace so that people can see that we are not to be feared or mistrusted."

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[Steeler [Crawler2]]

"Muslim women who wear the veil are not aliens, and politicians need to recognize that what they say can have a very dangerous impact on the lives of the minorities they treat as outcasts," Azmi said.

Maybe she is not an alien, but she looks like one wearing that shit.

[BLUE RUSH]

^^^ YouÂ’re a puppet and white men are pulling your strings..!!

Mashallah wat good news, she should of gotten more money if u ask me.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Blue
You ought to see her. She looks focking ridiculous.

When I was in Yemen, a lot of these b!tches were running around with Niqab and a metal retainer that framed the eyes. Looked like something out of the middle ages, which it probably was.

If Niqab was so important to this woman, then why did she not wear it during the interview for the job.

Now, let's put this on the other foot. If an American woman in Saudi Arabia showed up to her job interview wearing Hijab with Bui Bui, and got hired because she had some special expertise, but then came to work wearing a mini-skirt a cut blouse showing cleavage, would she continue to work as a teacher at that school? Niqab is a way for Muslims to say "fock you" to western society. I don't want my kid being taught by someone who rejects my values so obviously.

[BLUE RUSH]

listen the woman looks beautiful and modest

You really think the white people care about you. You think that you fit in their western ideology when really you haven’t a clue. Remember you’re not a western man you a African Somali please remember that whenever you talk about ‘’the western culture’’ when you come from the most uncivilised country in the world.

I honestly pity you.

[Grant]

So she collected some damages for "injury to her feelings", but was not reinstated? Sounds like a mixed result to me. Hard to call it a win since she didn't get her job back.

[muslim-man]

[quote="Grant"]So she collected some damages for "injury to her feelings", but was not reinstated? Sounds like a mixed result to me. Hard to call it a win since she didn't get her job back.[/quote]

She was on a temprary basis there according some paper i read. it's win win for her and a lose lose for the school