A Muslim woman wearing a headscarf felt discriminated against because she was not allowed to wear an Islamic headscarf in a clinic in Herne, which is run under the auspices of the Catholic St. Elisabeth Group. After successful bluster and with the active support of the student parliament and the mainstream media, the headscarf ban has now been overturned. What’s more, the Islam-devote clinic group will provide headscarves at its own expense.
A ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves is in force at the clinics in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The hospitals are run by the Catholic sponsor St. Elisabeth Group. However, 24-year-old Melda had taken it into her Islamic head to complete her occupational therapy training at the hospital in Herne wearing her Muslim headdress. After she refused to take off the emblem of Islam during her training, the hospital terminated it.
The 24-year-old Melda then did what countless of her co-religionists have already done: She loudly shouted: “Discrimination!”. This was readily picked up by the newspaper WAZ. In cronyism with the “student parliament” of the Ruhr University – the student parliament is the “highest decision-making electoral body (organ) of a constituted student body” and appoints the left-wing radical General Student Committee (AStA) – the St. Elisabeth group was then put under pressure. In a letter, the “student parliament” demanded an end to the headscarf ban from all head doctors. If the group did not desist from the ban, according to the islamophile tenor of the letter, then they could not continue to support the cooperation with the university hospital or academic teaching hospital group.
The management of the clinics now gave up. In future, Muslim women will be allowed to wear their Islamic headscarf in their Catholic hospitals as they please.
But that’s not all: the hospital group, which also includes the Marien Hospital in Herne as a university clinic of the Ruhr University, wants to have white headscarves with their own logo produced themselves at their own expense and make them available to the Muslim women at work.
According to the WAZ, Melda is highly satisfied with her victory. And the Muslim woman has already found a new, Islam-devoted internship. However, she will definitely not take a job at the now Islamised St. Elisabeth Group after her training. The headscarf fighter does not want to be employed there. The clinic group did not even manage to apologise for her expulsion.