ce-chairman of governors at Feversham College, Britain’s first state-funded Muslim secondary school, said the case was an example of growing anti-Islamic sentiment in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.
But this puts the whole affair into better perspective:
Mr Justice Bennett suggested that Miss Begum may have been influenced by her older brother, Shuweb Rahman, who became her litigant-friend in court. “One wonders why it should have been her brother who articulated what the claimant was perfectly capable of saying herself,” he said.
During the trial Yasmin Bevan, the head teacher of the comprehensive, said that one of the reasons the school maintained its ban on the jilbab was to help children to resist the efforts of extremist Muslim groups to recruit them.
Meanwhile, from the girl’s lawyer: “The family feels this decision doesn’t help integrate Muslims within our society”. To which I can do no better than echo one of the comments at lgf:
Wrong, that’s exactly what it’s aimed at doing, and that’s why they don’t like the decision.
Suck it up, Mohammed, or go back to the dusty third world hellhole from whence you came.
Okay, literalists might complain that the dusty third world hellhole in this case is, um, Luton, but I can get behind the sentiment.
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