JUST ADDED!Ban on Head Coverings that Obscure Face?
by sherry
The LA times is reporting
TON (AP) — The alma mater of a Massachusetts terror plot suspect has banned students from wearing clothing that obscures the face, including face veils and burqas.
The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services announced the policy weeks after Muslim alumnus Tarek Mehanna — the son of a professor — was charged in October with plotting terror strikes. It went into effect Friday.
School spokesman Michael Ratty says it is unrelated to Mehanna’s arrest and was part of an annual review. He says officials want everyone entering the school’s Boston campus to be able to be identified.
Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations wants a religious exemption. He says Muslims who believe they must cover their faces should be allowed to.
Source LA Times
Thank you for the updates on this seemingly growing trend. It is definitely an area to pray over. Seems hard to believe that in a country founded on religious freedom and so proud lately of “tolerance”, we would face such ignorant banning of religious observances.
It is an effrontery to our religions freedoms in this country to have these restrictions put upon us in the name of security or because of extremist actions.
Slowly but surely our freedoms of all kinds are being eroded away in the name of security and anti-terrorism.
Where will it end?
This is a sad imposition on Religious rights. It starts here and goes further. I respect their right to be private for sake of their faith.