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Aishah Azmi, so we're told
Hey, if hurt feelings are this lucrative, I'm starting to feel a little bit picked-on myself. After all, I get death threats and assaults on my good name and character on a regular basis, just for speaking honestly about the nature of Islam and jihad. Isn't that worth a few pounds? (But of course, in reality the only feelings that are worthy of monetary soothing are those of Britain's poor put-upon Muslim community.) An update to this story from the Telegraph, with thanks to A Girl Scout:
The Muslim teaching assistant who sparked a political storm after she refused to remove her veil during lessons, has won her employment tribunal case for victimisation against the school which suspended her but lost her claims for discrimination and harassment. Ms Azmi was awarded £1,000 for "injury to feelings" after she succeeded in her claim of victimisation. But her claims of direct and indirect discrimination, and her claim of harassment, were dismissed.Kirklees Council suspended Aishah Azmi, 24, after she refused to remove her veil while teaching at Headfield Church of England Junior School in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
The school said face-to-face communication was essential for Ms Azmi's job as a bilingual support worker. The case fuelled an ongoing debate about the use of the veil and the way that the Muslim community integrates into British society.
In a statement Mrs Azmi said she was considering an appeal against the decision to dismiss three of her claims. "It is clear that discrimination against me has taken place and I am disappointed that the Employment Tribunal has not been able to uphold that part of my claim," she said.
"I am taking the advice of my legal team at Kirklees Law Centre and will be looking to appeal against that decision. However, I am pleased that the tribunal have recognised the victimising way in which the school and the local education authority have handled this matter and the distress that has caused me."
She criticised the political involvement in the issue: "Sadly the intervention of ministers in my case (against the ministerial code) makes me fearful of the consequences for Muslim women in this country who want to work."
Yeah, it's tough. You might actually have to deal with people face-to-face. But look on the bright side, Aishah. You've got a thousand pounds, and I hear that in some countries religious minorities have it even tougher than you do in Britain. That's right! Hard as it may be for you to believe, there are countries in the world today where religious minorities are actually threatened with death for something they had nothing to do with. Some are menaced by violent mobs for not conforming to the norms of the dominant religion. In some places, clergy of minority religions have been brutally murdered for no reason at all by murderers who get off lightly. All you've suffered is some hurt feelings, and now you have a lot of money to blow on new niqabs. All in all, you've come out ahead.
Posted by Robert at October 19, 2006 7:07 PM
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at October 19, 2006 7:32 PM
It is this type of Euroweenie appeasement that embolden muslims to be recalcitrant and demanding. The more extreme they exhibit, the more they expect others to give way.
Posted by: FreedomSeeker33 at October 19, 2006 7:43 PM
Lets look at the positives, now it's perfectly OK to sack veil wearing muslims (or any religion for that matter) ladies in positions where they deal with joe public in the UK. Victory for common sense.
She got £1000 because the council didn't follow their own procedures for disciplinary action. It's not pandering to the Muslims.
at October 19, 2006 7:54 PM
Why is she showing her eyes at me like that? The whore!
I have an idea. The next time you see a muslim woman on the street, rather than risk a hate crime by making a comment, you can play devil's advocate.
Here's how it works:
A muslim woman is wearing a headscarf. You berate her on the sidewalk for showing her face. She is insulting the prophet. Denounce her as a whore, send her packing back home to cover up.
Then yell, "Praise be to Allah. Don't come back looking like some cheap American whore! One day this will be a sharia-ruled country. You better get used to it!"
Posted by: August22 at October 19, 2006 7:54 PM
I would think the parents should get part of her money. After all , it was their children who were victimised by this woman. I grew up with the idea that people who cover their faces were criminals. I'm sure a lot of the children were injured in some way and unable to learn.
Pay up Azmi!
at October 19, 2006 7:58 PM
Spoiled Children
The spoiled child may rant
The spoiled child may scream
Spoiled men are underhand
And they will plot and scheme
The spoiled man must win
The spoiled man must rule
No matter how they sin
No matter they’re a fool
From ranting through to schemes
From screaming through to reigns
They’ll trample on your dreams
And get joy from your pains
They’re psychopaths within
And they were made that way
When parents just gave in
To have an easy day
When spoiled children rant
When spoiled children rage
It’s time to say "You can’t"
Don’t make them centre stage.
~ Trevor Morgan
Posted by: Malinois at October 19, 2006 8:11 PM
Probably one of those wild slutty womens that we hear about so much from Naseem.
Robert
Shame on you for peddling porn on J/W.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at October 19, 2006 8:11 PM
One more question - did she marry when she was 6? In that case, at 23, 1 child is way below what might be expected - what's her shor doing? Busy with the other houris?
Posted by: Infidel Pride at October 19, 2006 8:15 PM
This was actually a brilliant move on her part. She tested the system and won. Everyone will think twice before asking that she interact with others as an equal. She has surpassed “equal” and now has moved up to “role model” and “victim of prejudice”. This might be the birth of a muslim civil rights warrior.
Posted by: Ronin at October 19, 2006 8:42 PM
Behind the niqab she is laughing all the way to the bank to get a money order to send to CAIR, Hamas or some other equally neferious outfit. Allah Akbar!
Posted by: Shakey_Premise at October 19, 2006 8:47 PM
Not only is it outrageous that she fails to cover up her eyes -- the hussy! -- but any decent woman would not dare to appear without being inside an armored tank so that no one can see any suggestion of female bodily form. Furthermore, women should only be permitted to speak by using one of those voice machines that creates a robotic, completely asexual, voice.
Is woman the face of evil, or is it this woman's face covering -- and the sharia it represents -- that is evil?
Posted by: traeh at October 19, 2006 8:48 PM
Watch her eat spaghetti
http://www.prophetmohammed.co.uk/images/onlyinfidel/EatingSpaghetti.wmv
at October 19, 2006 8:49 PM
That's a broad? Hell, I thought that was a Black Septemberist from the 1972 Olympics!
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 19, 2006 9:38 PM
at October 19, 2006 9:52 PM
"Aishah Azmi, so we're told"
What a great idea, Robert.
"Sure, you can wear the niqab, but you know, we have credentialing issues, work policies, etc. So, well, we're going to have to have some way of identifying you, so that we can know it is really you showing up for work. So if you'll just submit to this retinal scan, and fingerprinting, and, oh, this swab, you can get back to work. But, er, you will have to do this every day, so you'll have to show up a bit early."
Also, I have to agree with the others who think she is a complete slut for showing her eyes.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen at October 19, 2006 10:01 PM
The problem is that the progressive establishment is largely unable to recognise the wearing of the Hijab as a political statement of intimidation.
So they disguise it in religious terms and accuse the dissenters of racism and intolerance towards islam.
It is little different to the wearing of Nazi uniforms in public and defending it in terms of political tolerance.
Again we see what islam is superb at achieving:
The Disguise and cloaking of political objectives under the guise of religion.
at October 19, 2006 10:02 PM
Jeez. This is ridiculous. Those tents are honestly the dumbest things I've ever seen. Pretty illogical, if you ask me. It's like, life is hard enough without a giant piece of clothing to step on.
Personally, I think it's this type of thing that makes people dumber. Like, everything men and women do is an attempt to attract a mate. If a woman is forced to be dumbed-down, subjagated and stuff, then the men don't have to be smart, they have an easy woman, probably guarunteed. Thus, they don't need to really be smart in order to reproduce, and so they have no actual need to be smart, and boom!, peoples IQ's drop like hell. Having a society with free thinking women is the biggest motivater to improve the self. This could probably be one of the reasons why the Middle East still hasn't progressed.
That and Islam.
Posted by: TheVoiceofTruth at October 19, 2006 10:26 PM
Now that the dingbat got some money she can run to the nearest branch of Bank of Jihad (i.e. a Muslim charity for those orphans) and make a deposit. After all, Allah has to get a share of the loot too.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 19, 2006 10:35 PM
The eyes are the windows of the soul. What more do you want?
Posted by: Hugh at October 19, 2006 10:47 PM
The eyes are the windows of the soul. What more do you want?
Posted by: Hugh
I want a soul.
-WH
at October 19, 2006 11:01 PM
What is she doing in Britain?
She belongs to some backward hamlet in Yemen.
Posted by: rocky at October 19, 2006 11:20 PM
Those tents are honestly the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Let me add an E to that so that tents become tenets. Either way, it is designed to smother the human spirit.
Posted by: August22 at October 19, 2006 11:40 PM
10-1 she's grinning with joy under the pox box outfit
But i guess we'll never know huh
Keep watching the British media folks, because next week i'm going to try to get a job as a primary school teacher whilst wearing a balaclava
"what do you mean i'm scaring the children, surely they can tell by my voice and eye's i'm just trying to teach them maths"
...............will be my defence in court, hopefully i'll gain a thousand pounds too
the picture of the thousand pound richer bint should now be circulated as the future 'face' for all british women given our current creeping islamification
20-1 she's growing a beard under that
at October 19, 2006 11:44 PM
its not surprizing how far into dimmitihood the english have gone to give something that we cant tell what sex it is under that black sack monney, then theres cab drivers that are leaving the blind and reusing to take them its time the west stood up and told theses muslims to intergrate or leave
Posted by: islamakapigeaters at October 20, 2006 12:12 AM
She got £1000 because the council didn't follow their own procedures for disciplinary action
BS. She was awarded £1000 for victimisation + 10% extra for Kirklees Council supposedly not following its own grievance procedure.
What I don't understand is that she can work from September to February before being suspended on full pay of £15.000 pa - yet there is a window during which she could be fired before job-protection laws cut in
Posted by: Voyager at October 20, 2006 1:28 AM
"Then yell, "Praise be to Allah. Don't come back looking like some cheap American whore! One day this will be a sharia-ruled country. You better get used to it!"
Great idea, but do you think they'll buy it when I try this dressed in my shorts and t-shirt?
Posted by: Lili at October 20, 2006 1:52 AM
THOSE APPEASING BRITISH ARE SO SENSITIVE AND FOOLISH
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FAR SMARTER OF THOSE TOUCHY FEELY BRITISH TO PAY ONE THOUSAND POUNDS TO THE SURVIVING VICTIMS FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE 7/7 TRAIN AND BUS TERRORIST ATTACKS.
MONEY BETTER SPENT TO PRESERVE BRITISH SOCIETY
Posted by: Johnathan at October 20, 2006 2:07 AM
I think the money needs to go to the poor kids who lost valuable education time because they couldn't understand her.
Ridiculous.
Posted by: GoldieLox at October 20, 2006 9:02 AM
'All in all, you've come out ahead.'
Oh, Robert, you sly punster! Very funny, subtle last line there. I almost fell off my chair laughing.
Posted by: Vee at October 20, 2006 9:27 AM
Do Islamic schools for the deaf bother with lip reading?
Posted by: MP at October 20, 2006 12:26 PM
This is going to run and run and run, the bottomfeeders see lots and lots of money and plenty of free advertising for there legal practices. The Human rights industy is out of control and it has to be checked otherwise it will bankrupt the country before the muslim leeches do. This is an abuse of the legal aid act which was passed by the first labour Government after the last war with all the good intentions of giving the working class the chance of getting retribution in the courts and worked well until “The Human Rights Industry” latched onto it and started milking it for all it was worth. This is what happens when it is abused. The complete legal system becomes a gross characature of itself. People lose faith in the institution and eventually in the Government itself. The only good it will do is to prove to the majority ie. The Aboriginal Population of the British Isles what stark starring raving loons the followers of the the Religion of peace actually are. Please read and enjoy.
A MUSLIM teaching assistant lost her fight to wear a veil in class yesterday. But she vowed to take her case to the European Court, landing the taxpayer with a £250,000 bill.Defiant Aishah Azmi refused to accept an employment tribunal’s decision that she was not harassed or discriminated against on religious grounds for wearing the controversial niqab.
Flanked by her lawyers after the ruling was announced, 24-year-old Mrs Azmi said she would exhaust the legal process in Britain before heading to the European Court to press her case.Her threat came after she was awarded £1,100 for "injury to feelings" by the tribunal which accepted her claim that she had been victimised. Mrs Azmi had been employed at the school since September last year as a bilingual support worker, but she was suspended in February by education bosses who said children needed to see her face to understand what she was saying.Specialist employment lawyers warned last night that the classroom rebel’s vow to go to Brussels would mean a taxpayer-funded bonanza for lawyers while the case took years to rumble through the legal system.Mrs Azmi, who is suspended on full pay from her £15,000-a-year job at Headfield Church of England Junior School in Dewsbury, West Yorks, will benefit from having her lawyers paid through legal aid.Earlier this year, her lawyers battled with counsel for her employer, Kirklees Council, in a five-day hearing. The total costs for legal bills so far could top £50,000.The next stage will be to take the argument to the employment appeals tribunal, where costs will be repeated and possibly increased. The stakes will be raised massively if Mrs Azmi, originally from Cardiff, fails to gain a decision at the appeals tribunal, when her lawyers will seek leave to take her case to the Court of Appeal.The lengthy hearings and appeals that would follow could easily cost £50,000, a bill that would be matched if she were to be granted permission to go to the House of Lords.Only when that remedy has been exhausted will she then take her case to Brussels, where the European Court of Justice will ensure another big pay day for a regiment of lawyers."If she goes all the way to the European Court then the total costs in this case could be very large, it would not be unreasonable to say £250,000," said employment lawyer Clive Howard.Another legal expert added: "It’s not unusual in these types of cases to find something to hang on a victimisation claim. It just opens the door to take a case like this even further."Yesterday’s award of £1,100 by the Leeds tribunal was made because of victimisation in the way her case was handled by education chiefs.Last night it emerged that senior staff at the school, backed by Kirklees Council, had monitored the negative impact of Mrs Azmi wearing a veil before suspending her. Her legal team last night warned Prime Minister Tony Blair to "keep his mouth shut" as they revealed they had applied for legal aid. Because the test case has already been confirmed as being "in the wider public interest" by legal aid chiefs Mrs Azmi’s lawyer Nick Whittingham said: "It is virtually certain that we will get it."The teaching assistant must now lodge her appeal while continuing to claim her salary despite having no intention of returning to school unless she can wear the veil in class. The case sparked immediate controversy and attracted comments from Mr Blair, who backed her suspension. He said the wearing of a veil was a "mark of separation" and made some "outside the community feel uncomfortable". Race Minister Phil Woolas demanded that Mrs Azmi be sacked, accusing her of "denying the right of children to a full education". That brought condemnation from Mrs Azmi and support from her lawyer Mr Whittingham, who said: "I support her view that ministers and the Prime Minister should not be commenting on matters like this."I hope ministers can learn from this and maybe kept their mouths shut in future and stick to broader issues and not focus on individual cases to the detriment of justice."During a press conference, in which only her eyes were visible, Mrs Azmi said: "Muslim women who wear the veil are not aliens, and politicians need to recognise that what they say can have a very dangerous impact on the lives of the minorities they treat as outcasts."Integration requires people like me to be in the workplace so that people can see that we are not to be feared or mistrusted. Sadly the intervention of ministers in my case, against the ministerial code, makes me fearful of the consequences for Muslim women in this country who want to work."I will continue to uphold my religious beliefs and urge Muslims to engage in dialogue with the wider community despite the attacks that are being made upon them."Kirklees Council’s cabinet member for education Jim Dodds, who last week vowed Mrs Azmi would not be allowed to return to school in the veil even if they lost the tribunal, said: "As an employer Kirklees Council actively promotes and encourages equality and diversity and respects the wishes of employees to express their religious and cultural beliefs."The education of the children is of paramount importance and it is disappointing that the school was unable to reach a compromise with Mrs Azmi in this case. However, the tribunal has agreed that the action taken was correct."Labour MP Shahid Malik, who represents Mrs Azmi’s home town of Dewsbury, said the ruling was "quite clearly a victory for common sense".He told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme: "One of the things that makes this country the greatest place in the world to live is that you can wear a veil, a miniskirt, an afro haircut and it’s fine. But her rights are subordinate to the rights of children and their need for the best possible education they can get."He urged her to drop her appeal.The tribunal dismissed Mrs Azmi's claims that the school directly discriminated against her on the grounds of her religious belief, indirectly discriminated against her by applying a practice that put her at a disadvantage due to her religious belief or that she was subjected to harassment due to her beliefs.The tribunal also found that the Kirklees Council had failed to comply with grievance procedures and awarded a 10 per cent increase on the £1,000 sum for injury to feelings. This is going to run and run and run, the bottomfeeders see lots and lots of money and plenty of free advertising for there legal practices. The Human rights industy is out of control and it has to be checked otherwise it will bankrupt the country before the muslim leeches do. This is an abuse of the legal aid act which was passed by the first labour Government after the last war with all the good intentions of giving the working class the chance of getting retribution in the courts and worked well until “The Human Rights Industry” latched onto it and started milking it for all it was worth. This is what happens when it is abused. The complete legal system becomes a gross characature of itself. People lose faith in the institution and eventually in the Government itself. The only good it will do is to prove to the majority ie. The Aboriginal Population of the British Isles what stark starring raving loons the followers of the the Religion of peace actually are. Please read and enjoy.
A MUSLIM teaching assistant lost her fight to wear a veil in class yesterday. But she vowed to take her case to the European Court, landing the taxpayer with a £250,000 bill.Defiant Aishah Azmi refused to accept an employment tribunal’s decision that she was not harassed or discriminated against on religious grounds for wearing the controversial niqab.
Flanked by her lawyers after the ruling was announced, 24-year-old Mrs Azmi said she would exhaust the legal process in Britain before heading to the European Court to press her case.Her threat came after she was awarded £1,100 for "injury to feelings" by the tribunal which accepted her claim that she had been victimised. Mrs Azmi had been employed at the school since September last year as a bilingual support worker, but she was suspended in February by education bosses who said children needed to see her face to understand what she was saying.Specialist employment lawyers warned last night that the classroom rebel’s vow to go to Brussels would mean a taxpayer-funded bonanza for lawyers while the case took years to rumble through the legal system.Mrs Azmi, who is suspended on full pay from her £15,000-a-year job at Headfield Church of England Junior School in Dewsbury, West Yorks, will benefit from having her lawyers paid through legal aid.Earlier this year, her lawyers battled with counsel for her employer, Kirklees Council, in a five-day hearing. The total costs for legal bills so far could top £50,000.The next stage will be to take the argument to the employment appeals tribunal, where costs will be repeated and possibly increased. The stakes will be raised massively if Mrs Azmi, originally from Cardiff, fails to gain a decision at the appeals tribunal, when her lawyers will seek leave to take her case to the Court of Appeal.The lengthy hearings and appeals that would follow could easily cost £50,000, a bill that would be matched if she were to be granted permission to go to the House of Lords.Only when that remedy has been exhausted will she then take her case to Brussels, where the European Court of Justice will ensure another big pay day for a regiment of lawyers."If she goes all the way to the European Court then the total costs in this case could be very large, it would not be unreasonable to say £250,000," said employment lawyer Clive Howard.Another legal expert added: "It’s not unusual in these types of cases to find something to hang on a victimisation claim. It just opens the door to take a case like this even further."Yesterday’s award of £1,100 by the Leeds tribunal was made because of victimisation in the way her case was handled by education chiefs.Last night it emerged that senior staff at the school, backed by Kirklees Council, had monitored the negative impact of Mrs Azmi wearing a veil before suspending her. Her legal team last night warned Prime Minister Tony Blair to "keep his mouth shut" as they revealed they had applied for legal aid. Because the test case has already been confirmed as being "in the wider public interest" by legal aid chiefs Mrs Azmi’s lawyer Nick Whittingham said: "It is virtually certain that we will get it."The teaching assistant must now lodge her appeal while continuing to claim her salary despite having no intention of returning to school unless she can wear the veil in class. The case sparked immediate controversy and attracted comments from Mr Blair, who backed her suspension. He said the wearing of a veil was a "mark of separation" and made some "outside the community feel uncomfortable". Race Minister Phil Woolas demanded that Mrs Azmi be sacked, accusing her of "denying the right of children to a full education". That brought condemnation from Mrs Azmi and support from her lawyer Mr Whittingham, who said: "I support her view that ministers and the Prime Minister should not be commenting on matters like this."I hope ministers can learn from this and maybe kept their mouths shut in future and stick to broader issues and not focus on individual cases to the detriment of justice."During a press conference, in which only her eyes were visible, Mrs Azmi said: "Muslim women who wear the veil are not aliens, and politicians need to recognise that what they say can have a very dangerous impact on the lives of the minorities they treat as outcasts."Integration requires people like me to be in the workplace so that people can see that we are not to be feared or mistrusted. Sadly the intervention of ministers in my case, against the ministerial code, makes me fearful of the consequences for Muslim women in this country who want to work."I will continue to uphold my religious beliefs and urge Muslims to engage in dialogue with the wider community despite the attacks that are being made upon them."Kirklees Council’s cabinet member for education Jim Dodds, who last week vowed Mrs Azmi would not be allowed to return to school in the veil even if they lost the tribunal, said: "As an employer Kirklees Council actively promotes and encourages equality and diversity and respects the wishes of employees to express their religious and cultural beliefs."The education of the children is of paramount importance and it is disappointing that the school was unable to reach a compromise with Mrs Azmi in this case. However, the tribunal has agreed that the action taken was correct."Labour MP Shahid Malik, who represents Mrs Azmi’s home town of Dewsbury, said the ruling was "quite clearly a victory for common sense".He told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme: "One of the things that makes this country the greatest place in the world to live is that you can wear a veil, a miniskirt, an afro haircut and it’s fine. But her rights are subordinate to the rights of children and their need for the best possible education they can get."He urged her to drop her appeal.The tribunal dismissed Mrs Azmi's claims that the school directly discriminated against her on the grounds of her religious belief, indirectly discriminated against her by applying a practice that put her at a disadvantage due to her religious belief or that she was subjected to harassment due to her beliefs.The tribunal also found that the Kirklees Council had failed to comply with grievance procedures and awarded a 10 per cent increase on the £1,000 sum for injury to feelings.
at October 21, 2006 9:53 AM
christian minority women in places like Egypt and Indonesia are raped killed and have their heads cut off ( see www.mychristianblood.com ) regularly but I guess their lives arent worth anything in front of some muslim whore (Im sorry you ARE a whore in sprit if not in body since you prostitute yourself by accepting money you do not deserve) who wants to teach kids while dressed all in black like the devil himself. *shudder*
RISE UP LOVERS OF FREEDOM THE ALLIES SHALL WIN! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
at October 21, 2006 2:03 PM
opps the site is www.mychristianblood.org not .com
featuring autrocities against non muslims (lots on women) from around the world. NOTE: has actual photos of young indonesian girls with their heads detached in the archives section on Indonesia please be forwarned. They are truly disgusting acts and if you are soft on Islam (even after reading Robert Spencers meticulous and excellent books) these photos should smarten you up out there).
at October 21, 2006 2:06 PM
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