Asmae Belfakir, a Moroccan-born Muslim trainee lawyer said she felt humiliated after a judge ejected her, last week, from an administrative court in northern Italy for refusing to remove her headscarf.

AA.com reports that tt a hearing in a regional administrative court in Bologna, Asmae Belfakir was asked by Judge Giancarlo Mozzarelli to either remove her headscarf or leave the courtroom.

“I entered the courtroom with all the other lawyers involved in that case. The judge started to say: ‘Can you remove?’ He didn’t even say ‘hijab’ and wasn’t looking at me. I thought he just wanted someone to remove their coat. I couldn’t have imagined he was talking to me. Then I looked him in the eyes and realised. I was upset and I said, finishing his sentence, ‘the hijab?’” Belfakir said.
“Immediately afterwards, he said: ‘Yes. If you want to stay in this courtroom, you must remove it.’”
“I replied, ‘I’m not going to remove it. I’m going out.’”

She said that while she was opening the door, he said to the audience: “Yes, that’s because of the respect of our culture and traditions.”
“Hearing a judge speaking of culture and tradition in that context made me feel really bad. I was just there to learn a job, to understand how the law should be applied. I wasn’t there to be humiliated because of my religion,” she said.
“I heard a lot of things about that judge; his modus operandi and his personal thoughts,” Belfakir said.

“I’m pretty sure that he would never have asked a nun to remove her veil, and I’m quite sure because a nun is not insulting his culture as I did by wearing the scarf.”

Belfakir said the judge should have known why she was wearing a scarf and that it was not affecting the judicial hearing or her skills as a trainee lawyer.

“In this case, the law should protect people and their freedom of religion – as it is not affecting in a negative way the others – no matter how difficult it gets,” she added.

http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/muslim-trainee-lawyer-ejected-court-hijab/

I will keep saying this, humanity before religion.

Cyynthialove:
foolish head slamming terrorist

i guess you belong to this group but fortunate to be on nairaland.

Italy na your mama land?

very good

Lets put bigotry aside.. the lady in question would not even be allowed to be a lawyer in the holy land of saudi or Afganistan but here she is fighting for her religious rights.. I hate stupidity called religion

Muric the bearded yoruba muslim MUMUrudeens should also write against Italy in defense of the terrorist hijabian.

Ok

And later we will blame Trump, you can't go to an Islamic country and not wear a hijab as a woman, you will be arrested or even killed, saying that you are disrespecting their religion and culture , but the same people don't want to respect the culture of others

NIGERIA NEWSPAPERS: Today's Thisday Newspaper Headlines [27 January, 2018].


Below are the headlines found on Thisday Online Newspaper for today, Saturday, 27 January , 2018.

Buhari: It's Disgraceful, None of Our Refineries is Working Optimally
Sat, 27 Jan 2018
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja lamented the sorry state of the country’s four refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna, saying it was disgraceful that not even one of them was working optimally.



The President, who was speaking while receiving a delegation from Eni, led by the Chief Upstream Officer, Mr. Antonio Vella, said no refinery was performing up to 50 per cent.

Buhari’s media aide, Femi Adesina, quoted the President to have said: “In my first coming, all our refineries were working. Port Harcourt used to refine 60,000 barrels per day, and it was later upgraded to 100,000 barrels. Kaduna and Warri were also working optimally, and we used to satisfy the demand of the local market. We equally exported 100,000 barrels of refined petrol. Now, no refinery is performing up to 50 per cent. It is a disgraceful thing.”

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/01/nigeria-newspapers-todays-thisday_26.html

if you go to Rome, behave like the romans do.

Tired of this hijab of a thing....

Removing it for 30mins and proceeding with your case won't kill you na. Am a Muslim too, but my wahala no reach all this level

Why didn’t say she won’t call the judge my lord because your religion said you should have no lord except Allah

skedman:
i guess you belong to this group but fortunate to be on nairaland.

I'm not a muslim, but the way some characters behind some monikers make comments makes me wonder if they are actually christians. Some of them are the real anti-christs, not the christains they will want to claim. What prompted that statement you just quoted is what I can't still understand. From their comments, you easily know what they are, but, I tell you, most of them are not christians.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Good, you want to religion into noble practice that stands for justice. I feel religion should be practiced as a personal thing and should be exclaimed in our work and businesses.

I can't waste my comment on topics like this

Ndi alakuba bu ndi Chukwu buru onu

Anyway, just read What is the Nigerian Dream?

Ok

Terrorists are everywhere


They must be purged out of the society

Your hatred for Islam will take you no where

skedman:
i guess you belong to this group but fortunate to be on nairaland.

Why are you showing us your relatives

They want to start another one!

Kalapizim:
I will keep saying this, humanity before religion.

You need to understand the word 'humanity'.Sir the word itself includes ways of living

Their culture and traditions must be respected. The court is not a religious room.

skedman:
i guess you belong to this group but fortunate to be on nairaland.

Abubakarsiddeeq:
Your hatred for Islam will take you no where

Law of the land supersedes all religious law
What about the traditional worshippers?
What if they decide to wear their own regalia
What kind of society will that be