06 July 2011

Women 'forced to cover up' at summer fete

FEMALE visitors to a community event were ordered to cover their shoulders by the Muslim organisers.

Staff at the Noor Ul Islam Summer Fete, which took place at Leyton Cricket Ground at the weekend, are said to have told some women showing their shoulders they could only enter the site if they wore specially provided t-shirts.

Nilgin Aslan, 51, who is herself a Muslim, said she was “disgusted” to be told her two daughters were not allowed on to the public land unless they covered up. [Waltham Forest Guardian] Read more [via The Iconoclast]