14 April 2010

Apology to young Muslim woman instructed to remove headscarf for driver's licence photo

Getting her driver's license should have been an exciting rite of passage for a Sussex County teenager, her mother said.

But when Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles workers told the 16-year-old girl to remove her Muslim headscarf – despite an agency policy allowing her to wear it in her license picture – the experience ended in tears and embarrassment. [Islamophobia Watch] Read more