Aisah Azmi refused to remove her niqab in front of male colleagues

A Muslim teaching assistant suspended by her school for refusing to remove her niqab in front of male colleagues has said she will appeal against an employment tribunal’s decision that the local authorities did not discriminate against her.

The tribunal today ruled that Kirklees council had not indirectly or directly discriminated against Aishah Azmi, nor had it harassed the English and maths classroom assistant.

However, Mrs Azmi was awarded £1,100 in damages for victimisation, which includes a ten per cent mark-up owing to the local education authority’s failure to comply with the correct procedure.

What procedure would that be. The law of political correctness? It seems as though this woman wants to behave as though she’s living under sharia law. But isn’t that their goal? They want everyone to behave that way.

She’s using the victim angle that a lot of muslims are picking up. She’s a young teaching assistant refuses to take off her veil, claiming victimhood because people aren’t accepting that. And according to the media, this is opening an untested ‘new area of law’.

Straw said he would prefer women not to wear veils because they acted as a “visible statement of separation and difference.”

Social Exclusion Minister Hilary Armstrong backed that view on Thursday evening when she told BBC’s Question Time: “I think it is very difficult to actually wear a veil and participate in everything in our society.”