the-movemnt:Italian airport staff stops Muslim woman from boarding plane: “You are not safe for us
the-movemnt: Italian airport staff stops Muslim woman from boarding plane: “You are not safe for us.” Video footage of Italian airport security staff berating a Muslim woman for refusing to remove her headscarf is circulating the internet. Aghnia Adzkia was going through the security checkpoint Sunday at Ciampino - G.B. Pastine International Airport in Rome when staff told her she had to remove her hijab in order to board her flight to London. According to her Facebook post, Adzkia wanted the staff to provide legal proof that would require her to remove her hijab. “I wasn’t prepared to trust them unless they could cite me a law or provide me with a legal document that saying they were authorized to have to check what is underneath of my hijab,” Adzkia wrote. “It is a matter of human dignity and rights. For what reason were they asked me to take off my hijab?” At many international airports, according to several Muslim women Mic talked to, security officers often pat down the headscarf rather than remove it. Read more (4/18/17 4 PM) follow @the-movemnt -- source link