The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Molars, Not Mullahs
“A Muslim dentist refused to treat patients unless they wore traditional Islamic dress, it was alleged,” London’s Daily Mail reports:
Omer Butt, 32, ordered women to put on head scarves or he would not register them or their families at his NHS-funded clinic, it was claimed. [NHS is the British National Health Service – government funded medical care.]
At least two patients were left in pain after they declined to follow his self-imposed rules, the General Dental Council heard.
It is the second time that the dentist–who is the brother of a former spokesman of the radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun–has appeared before the council’s disciplinary panel on similar allegations.
Two years ago he was reprimanded for telling an Asian mother-of-two he would not register her unless she wore the Muslim hijab.
This is certainly a disturbing story. On the other hand, it’s reassuring to know that they now have dentists in Britain.
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