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UK: Muslim mother takes legal action against school over face veil ban

Jul 23, 2017 10:39 am By Robert Spencer

Britain is going to have to decide whether it is going to defend its own values or surrender to Islamic values. British officials keep pretending that there is no incompatibility between the two and hence no decision to make, but this position will, ultimately, become impossible to sustain.

“Muslim mother takes legal action against school over face veil ban,” by Diane Taylor, Guardian, July 20, 2017:

A Muslim mother has launched legal action against her daughter’s school, after being told she could not wear a face veil on its premises.

Rachida Serroukh, 37, a single mother of three daughters, has begun a discrimination test case against the prestigious Holland Park school, dubbed the “socialist Eton”, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea after she was told she would not be allowed to wear a face veil at the school.

Serroukh, a devout Muslim who has worn a face veil for the past 14 years, was delighted when her 11-year-old daughter was offered a place at the school. Not only was it across the road from where they lived, Serroukh – who was born in Ladbroke Grove – had studied there, achieving good grades….

“Education is very important to me and I want to ensure that all my children get a good education,” she said. “My daughter, who will be starting at Holland Park after the school holidays, did really well in her year 6 Sats and was the top girl in her class.”

But when she attended an evening for parents of new pupils at the school on 13 June, she was shocked to be challenged over her decision to wear a face veil.

After a talk by the head teacher, Serroukh – a qualified childcare assistant who plans to return to work when her daughter is settled in school – was approached by a member of staff who asked to speak to her. She was taken into a room and told it was the school’s policy not to allow face veils on school premises.

“I was already feeling uncomfortable because I had to leave my daughter standing on her own,” said Serroukh. “As the teacher was female, I lifted my veil when we were talking together in the room.” She had already been surprised, she added, that at the welcome event for about 200 parents – including five or six who were identifiably Muslim – the head teacher said in his speech that the school was secular and did not offer prayer rooms “although it showed video footage of the school choir singing in a church”.

At first Serroukh thought that the teacher who raised the veil issue had misunderstood and thought her daughter would be attending school in a face veil. “I explained clearly that my daughter wears a headscarf and would not be coming to school in a face veil. Then I realised she was talking about me not my daughter.”

Serroukh asked several times to see the school policy banning visitors from wearing a face veil, as she was aware that a friend who also wore a similar veil had been attending school events for five years without encountering any problems.

“I had had no problem from security at the school gate when I entered the school and nobody there had mentioned a policy. I always lift my veil and show my photo ID when required to do so for security purposes,” she said. “I didn’t want to challenge the teacher until I had seen the policy.”
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Serroukh said the teacher then asked her to leave the school through the back exit, but she refused, explaining she needed to collect her daughter and would be leaving through the same door she had arrived – the school’s front entrance.

“I was very shaken and was in a state of shock about what had happened,” she said. “I had never experienced anything like this before. I have experienced name calling in the street from strangers about my veil but nothing like this had ever happened before. When I got home, I just broke down.”…

The school has not yet responded to repeated requests to comment; Kensington and Chelsea referred enquiries to the school. But in Wilson’s 13 July email, he referred to Serroukh’s account of the meeting with the teacher during the parents’ welcome evening, saying “we believe [it] to be factually inaccurate”.

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  1. abad says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 10:44 am

    I thought Muslim women who wore face veils were forbidden to attend school??

    • Lucia Bartoli says

      Jul 23, 2017 at 2:09 pm

      ??

  2. TopDrifter says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 10:53 am

    It’s only going to get worse and frankly, I think Briton have reached the saturation point and are now a full blown Muslim country and Sharia Law is only a step away from the Brits. It’s been good knowing you Briton. I hope you fare well with your new captors…

    • Lucia Bartoli says

      Jul 23, 2017 at 2:09 pm

      Amen

    • Dave Catleugh says

      Jul 23, 2017 at 2:24 pm

      You won’t be far behind if you drop your guard like we did.

      • moeped says

        Jul 23, 2017 at 8:28 pm

        +1000

    • BC says

      Jul 24, 2017 at 6:05 am

      You are ridiculous. The population of UK is close to 66 millions, the number of Muslims is less than 3 million so the infidels outnumber the Muslims by roughly 22 to one.

      • Don Foss says

        Jul 24, 2017 at 10:55 am

        One devout Muslim is stronger than 22 “progressives.” No contest. You’re history…already. Congratulations.

  3. gravenimage says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 11:03 am

    UK: Muslim mother takes legal action against school over face veil ban
    ………………..

    Muslims will use our laws until the very moment they replace them with Shari’ah–if we let them.

  4. moeped says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 11:15 am

    Single mother my ass. Absentee Jihadi husband much more plausible.

    • faraway says

      Jul 24, 2017 at 12:00 am

      The husband lives with another of his wives and collects benefits on this one.

      • moeped says

        Jul 24, 2017 at 1:56 am

        +1
        We know their game, why don’t our “fearless leaders”?

        Oh yeah, it’s tough to see what’s happening on the ground from an ivory tower.

  5. James Pierce says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 11:53 am

    “I was already feeling uncomfortable because I had to leave my daughter standing on her own,”
    Yes, that’s what you do when you bring your child to school.

    • somehistory says

      Jul 23, 2017 at 4:23 pm

      Quite so. Guess in her case, she intends to do her “assisting” for which she is “qualified” in her daughter’s classroom.

  6. IQ al Rassooli says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 11:54 am

    At any time such cases come to a British court the lawyer of the defendant (usually unsuspecting British) should ask this so called Muslima in court two very simple questions:

    Please show the court where in your Quran can one find the words HIJAB and Niqab denoting the covering of a Muslim woman in any way shape or form?

    Since these are not in the Quran then on what basis are you contesting the ruling of the school?

    Case closed

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • moeped says

      Jul 23, 2017 at 12:35 pm

      IQ,

      I love your work and found you a couple of years ago. You helped educate me, thank you.

      Isn’t it sad that we must defend our culture against…Religion. This is just part of the process that islamists know very well. How sad that our own laws and institutions are used against us by those who wish to destroy our society.

      How sad that our lawyers and judges must inform themselves on religion in order to defend ourselves.

      We MUST get your message to the Crown and help them defend our society.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jul 23, 2017 at 1:53 pm

        Alas, judges do not seem to think that they need to inform themselves about Islam: they think they know enough already. Lee Rigby’s killer had done his research well. He had a list of Koran verses that justified the killing, saying “We are forced by the Koran, in Sura At Tawba….”. Judge Sweeney assured him this was “a betrayal of Islam”.

        “Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK’s top judge”, Daily Mail headline from 2008

        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031611/Sharia-law-SHOULD-used-Britain-says-UKs-judge.html#ixzz4ng7vgtcA

      • IQ al Rassooli says

        Jul 23, 2017 at 6:17 pm

        Dear moeped

        Thank you for your kind remarks

        I forgot to ADD that the lawyer for the school should also say:

        I fully respect your adherence to Allah’s Sharia BUT according to your Quran this makes you the Eternal and Mortal ENEMY of every British citizen who is NOT a Muslim as well as FORBIDS you from ever obeying our KUFFAR laws

        Please prove me wrong!

        IQ al Rassooli
        Kafir & Proud!

        • moeped says

          Jul 24, 2017 at 1:58 am

          + infinity.

        • IQ al Rassooli says

          Jul 24, 2017 at 7:39 am

          Dear JW readers

          I have just e mailed the school, the following~

          To whom it may concern

          To be certain that what I am telling you is perfectly correct, just Google ‘alrassooli’ to find out

          What she is trying to do is called LAWFARE in the USA meaning INTIMIDATING people or institution to submit to Islamic norms because Muslims know that very few non Muslims/ Kuffar bother to read let alone study their scripture

          Your lawyer should ask her in a court of law the following:

          Will you please show the court where in your Quran can anyone find the words HIJAB and or NIQAB denoting the covering of a woman in any way shape or form?

          Considering the FACT that such words with this meaning do not exist in the Quran then WHY is she claiming religious discrimination?

          Furthermore, your lawyer should also point out the following facts by saying:

          I have enormous respect for you as a Sharia compliant Muslima BUT Sharia forbids you from ever being a loyal citizen in any non Muslim country hence why are you in the land of the infidels/kuffar instead of your Sharia paradise country?

          Case is rested based entirely on her belief system

          Sincerely

          IQ al Rassooli

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    Jihad by “taking legal action,” indeed. They (Mohammedans) know EXACTLY how to play that “game.” I am sure that her legal team is well pay by Saudis and Qataris sources and she (personally) do not have to pay a penny from her own pocket to engage in that “game” (jihad).

  8. Jayell says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 12:43 pm

    1. Face coverings are already banned in UK banks and any other building (e.g., petrol stations) where the proprietors feel that concealing one’s identity is inappropriate. So people generally do as they’re asked out of basic courtesy. Likewise, Holland Park School’ all perfectly reasonable and in order.

    2. Quotes – “I was already feeling uncomfortable (after being asked to remove covering/leave) because I had to leave my daughter standing on her own,” said Serroukh…. So SHE was making OTHER people feel uncomfortable, but other people don’t matter? “

    “(The school) showed video footage of the school choir singing in a church”….Probably because the church was being used as a concert hall, because of its size and facilities, no doubt? My local church is used by the local (non-faith) school for this reason, as are thousands of other churches up and down the UK. Local parish churches have always been a multi-use ‘local facility or meeting place since at least the middle ages – they even used to hold village markets in them at one time! By trying to use this as an argument to back up her pathetic Islamic whinge just reveals her ridiculous ignorance,

  9. Lucia Bartoli says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 2:15 pm

    Defender the cultist islamists but not allow Brit parents to take their baby out of Britain? (Charlie Gard) What a mess! I’ll pray to St Thomas More for the gov’t to set itself aright

  10. Lucia Bartoli says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 2:16 pm

    Alice in Wondetland features the Queen of Hearts saying “Off with their heads.” That story was all about politics of the day. BUT whoever thought “off with their heads” would a real scenario carried out by a savage cult?! Get them OUT – Ban that cult for its inciting of anarchy and violation of law

  11. shosh7154 says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    Islam is about to be “humbled” by the G-d of Israel. Allah will be stripped naked and paraded before the entire world population for all to see that this dead rat’s party is over.

    allah hu akhbar is also Hebrew and it literally means …. the curse is a rat

    • Jayell says

      Jul 23, 2017 at 3:20 pm

      Well, our Friends of the Prophet are certainly spreading a plague of crime and depravity in the UK.

    • somehistory says

      Jul 23, 2017 at 4:33 pm

      I, personally, will be applauding when The True God, God of Israel and of Christians, strips islum.

  12. Mary Fran says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 2:41 pm

    She should go back to her own native land where NOBODY will object to her wearing her face veil. She will be required to wear one. But, they will CERTAINLY object to her being out on her own with no male relative accompanying her. Let her try THAT and see how uncomfortable she is in her own native land. If she survives.

  13. somehistory says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 4:28 pm

    They always demand, they sue, they threaten legal action…and yet, they are so easily “shaken” and “shocked” and “upset” and *break down* from the experience.

    If she so freely takes off the face covering when asked to by security, then why not readily comply when told that she must not wear it on school grounds?

    How does she get away with being a moslum and being a “single mother…of three”? Doesn’t evil islum require stoning and other punishment for doing what being a “single mother of three” clearly implies?

    This is a scheme to use the courts to get MONEY and to force compliance with islum’s evil code of misbehavior.

  14. Terry says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 5:38 pm

    As a relative of a number of people who are or were educators, I have THREE ( related) questions.

    1. HER DAUGHTER IS 11 YEARS OLD. IS THIS CORRECT?

    2. THE FAMILY LIVES ACROSS THE STREET FORM THE SCHOOL. IS THIS CORRECT?

    3. IF THE ABOVE TWO ANSWERS ARE YES ( AS INDICATED IN THE POST) WHY DOES THE MOTHER HAVE TO ESCORT HER TO SCHOOL?

    At 11, she should be able to cross a street by herself.

    And, note- she won a scholarship. So going to a socialist school for free.

  15. Tj says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    Islam will win.

    In Canada , your gun card picture can be with your face hidden.

    Enough said

  16. Manny says

    Jul 23, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    She’s shocked? Maybe she should go to her country where she won’t be shocked. I’m shocked Christians are killed in her country. What does her country do for Christians?

  17. Steven RSA says

    Jul 24, 2017 at 2:38 am

    If this “poor victim” wins her case and her spawn is allowed to cover her face in school, in order to point out the practical stupidity of the situation, all classmates should arrive with covered faces, as would be their right to do.

  18. george whyte says

    Jul 24, 2017 at 5:23 am

    I’m suing tour firm, says Muslim who was arrested by counter-terrorism police after reading a Syrian art book during flight to Turkey for her honeymoon

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4723506/Woman-arrested-Syrian-art-book-threatens-sue-firm.html#ixzz4nju7MIfk

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