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To: LindyBill who wrote (50455)	6/15/2004 12:52:11 PM
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This is not satire Symbols of Oppression LGF Even though an alternative uniform for Muslim schoolgirls is offered, a British Muslim asked the High Court to allow her to wear a jilbab—a full-length gown—to school. The High Court has turned her down, and the Islamovictim groups are already going into seethe mode: Schoolgirl loses Muslim gown case. (Hat tip: Colt.) A 15-year-old girl has lost her High Court battle to wear a style of Islamic dress to school. Shabina Begum has been out of her Luton school since September 2002 in a row over her wish to wear an ankle-length jilbab gown. She said her religious rights and education were being denied. But the High Court judge said the school’s uniform policy was aimed at the proper running of a multi-cultural, multi-faith secular school. Shabina’s lawyer Yvonne Spencer said her client was devastated and would not be returning to Denbigh school. “The family feels this decision doesn’t help integrate Muslims within our society,” she said. Front groups are also pushing hard to force the adoption of Islamic dress in US workplaces and schools; in Cleveland a Muslim woman is suing Cuyahoga county for being forced to remove her hijab in court: Muslim ordered to remove scarf sues county. (Hat tip: Moses Cleaveland.) Aisha Samad filed a lawsuit in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Monday arguing that her right to exercise her religious beliefs was ignored there two years ago. She is seeking $125,000 in damages and a judge’s order recognizing the right of female Muslims to cover their heads in court. Samad’s lawyer, Rufus Sims, announced the lawsuit on the steps of the Justice Center Monday afternoon, accompanied by Samad and supporters from the Muslim community. Samad, a 49-year-old nurse, stepped to a microphone wearing a head scarf called a hajib. “I ask all of you to take a stand and say my right to cover is equal to your right not to cover,” she said softly. ... Samad’s husband, Muhammad, on Monday likened removing his wife’s scarf to stripping the blouse from a non-Muslim woman. He said she suffered embarrassment and trauma. About a month after the hajib incident, Kenneth Kochevar, director of the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center, issued an apology that was printed in The Plain Dealer on July 29, 2002. Kochevar said he had been directed by Sheriff Gerald T. McFaul to create a policy whereby all Muslim inmates can cover their heads if they wish. “We apologized and adopted a policy that has been in place ever since,” he said Monday, adding that the jail now keeps extra hajibs in its property room. Sims said he did not know how the policy was being carried out and that his client is still entitled to damages. littlegreenfootballs.com