Tuesday, January 5, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Massachusetts College Bans Head Coverings that Block Face - '...The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services announced the policy weeks after Muslim alumnus Tarek Mehanna -- the son of a professor -- was charged in October with plotting terror strikes. It went into effect Friday. School spokesman Michael Ratty says it is unrelated to Mehanna's arrest and was part of an annual review. He says officials want everyone entering the school's Boston campus to be able to be identified. Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations wants a religious exemption. He says Muslims who believe they must cover their faces should be allowed to.'
