Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Minister says veil row teacher should be sacked (Reuters)

Visto il successo del caso n.1, quello della hostess con la croce, si 
replica con il caso n.2, quello della maestra con il velo integrale. 
Stavolta in UK c'e' anche una spaccatura nel governo.
Su, IPIani, risolvete voi la questione, che IMHO e' piu' di fondo, e 
lascia meno alternative allo *stato*
Da notare anche l'argomento della discriminazione sessuale contro i 
maschi. Ma qui ci stiamo posando su Marte per la prima volta <g>
Am.
Minister says veil row teacher should be sacked
 Sunday October 15, 06:31 PM 
 LONDON (Reuters) - The minister responsible for race and faith called 
on Sunday for a Muslim teaching assistant suspended for wearing a veil 
to be sacked, entering a growing row over integration.
 Minister for Local Government and Community Cohesion Phil Woolas told 
the Sunday Mirror that 24-year-old Aishah Azmi's decision to wear a veil 
while teaching made it impossible for her to perform her duties.
 "She should be sacked. She has put herself in a position where she 
can't do her job," he said.
 The issue of Muslim women wearing veils was thrust into the spotlight 
earlier this month when former foreign secretary Jack Straw said Muslim 
women who wore full veils made community relations difficult.
 He said he would prefer that women did not wear them because they acted 
as a "visible statement of separation and difference."
 The government has warned of increasing alienation and radicalisation 
among the country's 1.8 million Muslims. It is seeking to improve 
integration in the wake of last year's suicide bomb attacks by British 
Islamists which killed 52 in London.
 Woolas was not the only government minister to pronounce on faith 
issues on Sunday. Cabinet Minister Peter Hain rubbished a decision by 
British Airways to send home a worker for wearing a Christian cross.
 "Frankly I think British Airway's order for her not to wear her cross 
is loopy," the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland told the BBC.
 BA employee Nadia Eweida had refused to cover up her cross necklace 
under a scarf, which the airline said contravened its policy that 
jewellery and religious symbols on chains should not be on display.
 VEIL DISPUTE
 The dispute over Azmi's veil is currently before an employment tribunal 
which is set to rule within days.
 On Saturday Azmi told the BBC that the garment, which left just her 
eyes exposed, had never been a problem for pupils at the Headfield 
Church of England Junior School in Dewsbury.
 She said students had "never complained" and there had never been an 
issue about children having difficulty in understanding her talk through 
the garment.
 She added that although she was unveiled during an interview for the 
job and that a man was present, her faith meant she could not be 
unveiled in front of male colleagues while teaching.
 Woolas said Azmi's stance amounted to sex discrimination:
 "By insisting that she will wear the veil if men are there, she's 
saying; 'I'll work with women, not men'. That's sexual discrimination. 
No headteacher could agree to that."
-- 
 Gli islamici che sgozzano sono esecrabili (mettici l'aggettivo morale che 
 vuoi "infermali" va bene?), ma non sono fascisti; i "laici" che legiferano 
 contro UNA precisa minoranza religiosa sono invece fascisti [...]
-  Namib

 interviewed for the job by a male governor.
Quindi fa vedere la faccia da un maschio per ottenere il lavoro, ma
non la fa vedere agli alunni o ai colleghi maschi.
Due pesi e due misure.
Se si tratta di ottenere qualche cosa è in grado di togliersi il velo,
ma se si tratta di fare il suo lavoro, non ne è più in grado.
Se questa è la morale islamica...
Mirco
-- 
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unveiled in front of male colleagues while teaching.
Cioe' la fede esiste ... solo quando le fa comodo.
-Stefano