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| School sacks woman after veil row | School sacks woman after veil row |
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| A Muslim classroom assistant suspended by a school for wearing a veil in lessons has been sacked. | A Muslim classroom assistant suspended by a school for wearing a veil in lessons has been sacked. |
| Aishah Azmi, 23, was asked to remove the veil after the Church of England school in Dewsbury, West Yorks, said pupils found it hard to understand her. | Aishah Azmi, 23, was asked to remove the veil after the Church of England school in Dewsbury, West Yorks, said pupils found it hard to understand her. |
| Last month, an employment tribunal ruled Mrs Azmi had not been discriminated against but awarded her £1,100 for "injury to feelings". | |
| Kirklees Council confirmed the teaching assistant had been dismissed. | Kirklees Council confirmed the teaching assistant had been dismissed. |
| Mrs Azmi's lawyer Nick Whittingham, of the Kirklees Law Centre, said the local education authority were involved in a disciplinary process against her but he was not aware any decision had been reached. | |
| In October, a tribunal dismissed Ms Azmi's claims of religious discrimination and harassment on religious grounds. | |
| At the time, the married mother-of-one, said she would appeal against the decision to dismiss her religious discrimination claims. | |
| She criticised ministers who had intervened in the case and said it made her "fearful of the consequences for Muslim women in this country who want to work". |