GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

No veils in court, please...

Let's hope for a sensible ruling...
A senior judge has been asked to decide whether female Muslim advocates may wear the veil in court.

The question was referred to Mr Justice Hodge, president of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, by an immigration judge at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, who had difficulty in hearing a veiled legal executive.

Shabnam Mughal was dressed completely in black with a full-face veil leaving only her eyes visible.

The judge, George Glossop, asked Miss Mughal on Monday if she would "kindly remove her veil to assist with communication". He told her: "It will allow me to see your face and I cannot hear you as well as I would like."

She declined to do so and Immigration Judge Glossop briefly adjourned the case. Later in the day, he asked her a second time. When Miss Mughal again refused to remove her veil, the judge adjourned the case until next Monday, pending consultations with Mr Justice Hodge.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The simple solution would be for Great Britain to convert all Courts to Sharia Courts now, why delay the inevitable?

Womyn won't have to worry about appearing in Court in the Islamic Republic of Britain...

12:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let her wear the veil, and if it interferes with her job (as it apparently does) then let her lose her cases.

10:26 AM  
Blogger John M Reynolds said...

Can she not just use her outside voice? Send her to Drama class, so she can learn to project her voice.

10:57 PM  

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