Posted by Alex on 10/20/06

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When people talk about Asians in todays Britain, Muslims
Asians in particular, It is not indifferent to the black
people of the Unites States in the 1950/60's, because the
cases could be seen as very similar in terms of
law/government/people accept for the lifestyles of the
people in question.

In case you don't know, Rosa Parks was a black woman who
in the 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white person
when demanded to by the bus driver and was later arrested.
It was the law then for black people to give up their
seats to white people on demand on the bus, and she became
famous for it, and it was probably a HUGE step forward for
equal rights in the US, and this was years before Martin
Luther King was world famous.

Now, back to today...Aisha Azmi, a Muslim woman who
happens to be quite the traditionalist, wears a veil
religiously infront of adult men and also works in a
school in Leeds as a helper teacher. She was asked asked
to remove her veil by fellow teachers, and not so
politely, they were serious, they really wanted her to.
She didn't, like Rosa Parks she refused to give up a human
right, not in terms of law, but in terms of common sense.
Speaking of common sense, apparently, a person cannot make
a full contribution to society whilst wearing a veil,
despite the fact that Aisha Azmi was as mentioned a helper
teacher which appears to be nonsensical double standards.

She got in contact with her soliciters and tried to sue
the school for racialism, harrasment and victimization,
for what it's worth she only won the third one mentioned
but this is the law were talking about, and incase you
havent heard recently the government are trying to stamp
out the usage of traditional veils for Muslims, which is
possibly an important factor in this, the US government
did everything in their power to put black people to the
bottom of society many decades ago and the British
government don't seem to fond of Muslims nowadays either,
theirs your equivelant.

Perhaps in the future we will see a British Muslim
equivilent to Martin Luther King. All positive things need
to start somewhere if there is any chance of equal rights
and hopefully this is the beginning of exactly that.

Re: Aisha Azmi, 11/30/06, by Jesse.

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