THE TELEGRAPH: A Muslim woman has accused a Sydney bus driver of racism after he told her to take off her headscarf because it was against the law to wear it on board.
Khadijah Ouararhni-Grech was wearing a pink, floral niqab, which covers her hair and lower face, when she tried to board a bus in Greystanes, an outer suburb of the Astralian [sic] city.
"As I was stepping onto the bus the driver said 'You can't get on the bus wearing your mask'," she told the Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper.
When she explained it was religious dress, the woman said the driver responded: "Sorry, it's the law."
"I told him it wasn't the law and he said 'You have to show me your face,'" she said.
"I said to him, 'There's no difference between me and that lady sitting there who chooses to not wear what I'm wearing'." >>> Bonnie Malkin in Sydney | Friday, July 24, 2009
