[veils] award to aishah for hurt feelings, poor lass

Aishah Azmi, 24, the bilingual support worker suspended for refusing to remove her veil during lessons and who subsequently lost her claim that she was discriminated against because of her religious beliefs, has now been awarded £1,100 for "injury to her feelings". The school itself was silly enough to consider that staring through a postbox-slit eyehole in a black garment might be a little off-putting in a face-to-face counselling situation. I’m still puzzled that she was teaching in a C of E school in the first place but it's heartening, I can tell you. You know, I think I'm now going to put on a dog collar and mitre, go down to the local mosque and ask for a counselling job. Hope you'll still see me posting later.