MAIL Online: A dentist faces being struck off after refusing to treat Muslim patients unless they wore Islamic dress.
Dr Omer Butt ordered female patients to wear headscarves and forced men to take off gold jewellery before allowing them into the dentists' chair.
He even kept a box full of hijabs at his practice so he could lend them to women before checking their teeth.
Butt enforced his religious dress code despite previously being warned by the General Dental Council for the same offence.
The dentist ordered two women to wear head scarves before he would see them and their families, the professional conduct committee of the GDC found.
One woman was forced to leave the clinic in pain after refusing to cover her head while another wore the garment but was outraged after Butt asked her son if he prayed.
The panel concluded that Butt, of Prestwich, Greater Manchester, sought to impose a dress code on Muslim patients while working at the Unsworth Smile Clinic in Bury, Greater Manchester, between April 2005 and June 2007. Radical Muslim dentist refused to treat patients unless they wore traditional Islamic dress >>> | Thursday, July 02, 2009
