Mayor backs catering worker

The Mayor of London has condemned the sacking of a Heathrow catering worker for wearing a Hindu nose stud. Amrit Lalji, 40, of Stanmore, north-west London, said she wore the tiny piercing as a mark of her Hindu faith. She was asked to remove it by a manager but when she refused she was suspended and later sacked. Mr Livingstone said, "I unreservedly condemn the sacking of Mrs Amrit Lalji for wearing a Hindu nose stud.
"It is an attack on her right to freely express her religion and an attack on her right as a woman to dress as she wishes.
"Hundreds of millions of people follow the Hindu religion and it is difficult to imagine a worse way to welcome visitors from the Indian sub-continent to London than sacking a woman for wearing a Hindu nose stud."
The nose stud has been worn by Hindu women for thousands of years as a sign of chastity.
18/09/07 Asian Image, UK

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