School Bans Face Coverings, Muslims Complain - Updated


[Update] SCHOOL CAVES TO MUSLIMS! - Source



(Boston, Massachusetts) The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services (MCPHS) has adopted a policy which bans face coverings, a measure which has puckered the Muslim community. As a result, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that the policy has a "a disproportionate impact on the religious rights of Muslim employees.”

The school's revised "identification policy" reads that for "reasons of safety and security, all students must be readily identifiable while they are on campus and/or engaged in required off-campus activities. … Therefore, any head covering that obscures a student's face may not be worn, either on campus or at clinical sites, except when required for medical reasons."

The policy would effectively ban face veils, as well as burqas and niqabs, which either cloak the entire body or cover everything but the eyes.

Furthermore, MCPHS says the ban is for security reasons since Muslim students and employees can be easily identified and targeted by hate groups. It's claimed that the policy is unrelated to the arrest of MCPHS graduate and terror suspect Tarek Mehanna. Mehanna allegedly conspired to kill Americans.