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| Veil teacher was obeying a fatwa |
| 2006-10-29 |
| The Muslim teacher who insisted on wearing a veil in class has been following a fatwa issued personally to her by a Islamic cleric belonging to a hardline sect. Aishah Azmi found herself in the middle of a national row about integration when she took her school to an employment tribunal after it suspended her for refusing to remove the veil in class. Tony Blair joined the debate about the wearing of veils — opened by Jack Straw, the Commons leader — and supported the school’s actions. Azmi, 24, has maintained that her decision to wear the veil was driven entirely by her personal beliefs, rather than the advice or instruction of a third party. But this weekend it emerged that she refused to take the veil off at school after receiving a fatwa, or religious ruling, from Mufti Yusuf Sacha, a Muslim cleric in West Yorkshire. Her legal team revealed that the advice Sacha issued to Azmi ruled that it was obligatory for women to wear the niqab (face-veil) in the presence of men who were not their blood relatives. Sacha is one of several hundred Islamic clerics in Britain with the status of mufti, entitling him to issue fatwas based on Islamic law. Although Muslims are expected to follow fatwas, they are not obliged to do so, particularly if they live in a non-Muslim state. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #12 I guess the other jihadis will kill her when they find out she brazenly displayed her womanly wilds in order to gain employment. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-10-29 14:14 |
| #11 I'll freely admit that I've been spotlighting how often these supposedly moderate Muslims suddenly turn out to bo not-so-moderate. One little question: With the Mainstream Media Screw this "moderate" bullshit. Let me know when radical reformers are stacking up dead jihadists like cordwood. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-29 12:36 |
| #10 ...she planned the controversy from the beginning. I doubt that she herself planned it, she doesn't come across as being smart enough. Most likely she is being used as a pawn by someone else. No doubt a large portion of her pay packet is liberated from her for higher uses. |
| Posted by: BoNeards 2006-10-29 11:35 |
| #9 Listening to her being interviewed, she sounds quite the silly cow. Burkha Sheehan, I expect the media to rally round and send her off on demos. Can't you just see the anguish in her eyes. Poor little muzzie. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-10-29 10:32 |
| #8 Purdy good scam. The Sin City judge gives her a 9.9. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-29 10:25 |
| #7 Neither. She was sent home on full pay (sweet deal) and given £1100 because the sister is a victim. Suicidal Socialist Schitz. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-10-29 10:18 |
| #6 I am not sure was she terminated or was she just told to unveil or leave? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-10-29 09:54 |
| #5 So she came up with a convenient post firing Fartwa. Funny she didn't mention that earlier. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-10-29 09:24 |
| #4 Perhaps the RB House Immam could throw down a counter-fatwa and catch them between wickets. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-10-29 09:08 |
| #3 Rubbish. She didn't wear the niqab while travelling to her job interview or at the job interview itself. Must have passed men on the way and interviewwed with a male offical at the school. Only after being hired did she show up with only her eyes visible. Taqiyaa all the time. Church of England school - she planned the controversy from the beginning. And her actions prove it's nothing more than a fashion choice she makes each morning. Else she would have interviewed veiled. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-10-29 07:18 |
| #2 Sacha follows the teachings of the Tablighi Jamaat, a hardline Muslim group, elements of which are suspected by western intelligence agencies of having links with terrorism. The majority of Tablighis are, however, regarded as moderate. Here we go again: "It's a fatwah, it's a dessert topping, it's an extremist, it's a floor wax, mmm ... tastes moderate and just look at that shine!" How much more extremist-in-moderate's-clothing runaround will be needed before nobody takes this moderate Muslim bullshit seriously anymore? I've already had enough of radical Muslims to last three thousand lifetimes. I'm pretty damn fed up with all this moderate Muslim taqqiya, as well. The only thing that will give me even the least sort of hope is Radical Reformist Muslims taking jihadists out back of the mosque and pumping some slugs into them. When I hear about radical reformers aggressively rehabilitating the morally bankrupt domatic political ideology called "Islam", only then will I have any hope. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-29 04:24 |
| #1 Total unadulterated horseshit. Must be getting a little hot locally to dream this farce up as CYA scheme. |
| Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-10-29 01:29 |