Seventeen-year-old Omaima Razzag, a student at a local tourism college, had planned to spend three weeks working at the hotel reception in the town of Cattolica, in the coastal province of Rimini, Tgcom24 reported on Monday. But the hotel staff said that in order to complete her internship, Razzag would have to take off her veil.
“They had decided that the work experience students must behave and dress in a certain way. They would only accept me if I took the veil off. I said I absolutely wouldn’t,” she told local journalist Brahim Maarad.
Defending the decision, the hotel manager said: “In the same vein we don’t accept people wearing piercings, large earrings, unusual hairstyles. Our rules are clear, religion doesn’t play a part.”
[A COMMENT] I totally agree with the hotel. This is not discrimination it is a business rule of private company in the hospitality industry in a country that is not an islamic republic. [The Local] Read more
