Re: Aisha Azmi

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I would very much like to see Muslims in M.E. countries
demand the same equal rights for Christians there, as the
Muslims are demadning in the West. I just dont see it
happening, and it is more Islamic hypocricy.

On 10/20/06, Alex wrote:
> 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.