Hear we go again.
CALIFORNIA, Md., March 10 (UPI) -- Officials at a Maryland credit union say a Muslim woman was pulled out of line and served in a backroom because her headscarf violated bank policy banning hats.
Kenza Shelby, who says she wears the headscarf for religious reasons, told The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) she was asked to get out of line Saturday and told she could be helped in a backroom at Navy Federal Credit Union in California, Md., a suburb of Washington.
Shelby, who said she has been a customer at Navy Federal for more than 10 years, said she was first pulled out of line last month, and when it happened again Saturday she told credit union employees: "No. I want to be served like everybody else."
Shelby, who operates a daycare center in her home, said she left the credit union and contacted the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told the Post CAIR is concerned Shelby's experience "may be the tip of the iceberg."
"There's got to be a way to work it out so that this security concern does not lead to violations of constitutional rights," Cooper said.
Navy Federal Senior Vice President for Security Tom Lyons told the Post he could not discuss the specific case but he said the institution's ban on hats, hoods and sunglasses, implemented in December, is a response to an increase in robberies in 2008.
"We want to be able to clearly identify who you are and make sure the transaction is safe," Lyons said. "This is a policy that applies to everybody in the branch. She wasn't singled out. … We tried to accommodate her and help her with her transaction and move on."
Note to bank robbers: Wear the headscarf, skip Navy Federal Credit Union, for now. Something tells me the policy will change.
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CAIR is making international hay with this nonsense:
Pankki hääti huivia käyttäneen musliminaisen jonosta USA:ssa
Helsingin Sanomat - Helsinki,Uusimaa,Finland
"Tämä saattaa olla jäävuoren huippu", sanoi Ibrahim Hooper, joka on Council on American-Islamic Relations -järjestön tiedottaja. "On oltava tapa hoitaa tämä ...
Bank limits woman's service in main room because of head scarf
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA
"There's got to be a way to work it out so that this security concern does not lead to violations of constitutional rights," said Ibrahim Hooper, ...
Woman in headscarf pulled out of line
MarketWatch (press release) - USA
Spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told the Post CAIR is concerned Shelby's experience "may be the tip of the iceberg." "There's got to be a way to work it out so ...
Muslim Woman Asked to Leave Line at Bank
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
"This may be the tip of the iceberg," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. ...
You know what would be a great protest?
We should all start wearing headscarfs when we go to the bank, men, women, and children.
I can just hear the muslims complaining that we are "mocking" them.
This woman should be happy that they were kind enough to serve her. As she said herself, this was not happening until recently. So it wasn't about her.
The scarf wearing woman had been pulled out of line before--
SHE knew the security rules...
The second time was a 'test' either perpetrated by CAIR or advised by CAIR...Testing-testing-testing----
Kind of like the 6 Inmans on that plane-the airline was sued by the followers of Islam AWA some of the pssengers--suites were later dropped against passengers
TESTING TESTING TESTING!!!
Well the policy also calls for removing sunglasses, what do they do about that?
If they don't enforce their written policy across the board, they are in deep doo doo.
What's more in MD they get bad winter weather .. hats? Hoods? Scarfs over the head?
If they enforce across the board then they WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY, if not, it's discrimination.
Apparently CAIR spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper thinks this issue has global appeal since this issue is in it's second day of contrived global grievance saturation (note the title change @ al arabiya ) :
Za chustę wyproszona z kolejki
Nasz Dziennik - Warszawa,Poland
To jest czubek góry lodowej - uważa Ibrahim Hooper, rzecznik waszyngtońskiej Rady Stosunków Amerykańsko-Islamskich. W jego opinii, istnieje jednak droga ...
Bank Cites Headscarf for Asking Muslim Woman to Leave
Women on the Web - New York,NY,USA
So all these people apparently are going to be singled out for this policy," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told wOw this morning. ...
Local Bank Refuses to Serve Muslim Woman in Head Scarf
Bay Net - Lexington Park,MD,USA
And, according to Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesperson for Council on American-Islamic Relations who told the Washington Post that Shelley’s treatment was “just ...
Al-Arabiya
US credit union seeks to curb identify theft
Al-Arabiya - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
"This may be the tip of the iceberg," Ibrahim Hooper, a CAIR spokesman, told the Washington Post. "There's got to be a way to work it out so that this ...
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