The Dentist and Great Britain

Submitted by Mark D (United States), Mar 16, 2014 at 23:47

Muslim dentist insists patients obey Islamic dress codes: Omer Butt, 32, is a dentist at the Unsworth Smile Clinic, in Bury, Lancashire, a clinic funded by taxpayers via the National Health Service, and also the brother of the notorious Hassan Butt, former spokesman of "Al-Muhajiroun." Butt posted put a sign in his waiting room informing women under his care – Muslim and non-Muslim alike – that they must wear a hijab or find another dentist, while men had to remove any gold jewelry. Tom Kelly in the Daily Mail notes that Butt insisted on these rules to the point of providing hijabs and abandoning at least two patients in pain when they refused his terms.

May I ask, Dr. Pipes, why it seems that many examples of problematic Islam in the West get manifested in Great Britain. They have some explaining to do.

As for the dentist, it was a habit so drilled into him that he couldn't shake it, that is practicing religion with medicine. Damndest thing.

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