Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 23-11-2016
A woman from Johannesburg has been left traumatised after a local doctor allegedly verbally abused her and snatched her niqaab (face veil) off her face and threw it to the ground.
Faheema Ismail, a student at the University of Johannesburg told Radio Islam the incident happened yesterday when she took her female cousins to the doctor as one of them was not feeling well.
Ismail says she was drawn to the niqaab since she was just 12-years-old as it’s a perfect example of modesty.
Because she is soft spoken, Ismail says she lifted her niqaab so she could communicate with the doctor who knows her family very well to tell him the symptoms her cousin was experiencing.
“I lifted my niqaab and I explained okay this is her address, this is what needs to be on that form. And he looked at me and when he realised its me he turned around and is like ‘oh F*@#k its you’, and he asked me do I want to be assaulted.”
Ismail says she asked the doctor if he was against niqaabi’s to which he told her that niqaabi’s are hypocritical.
She says the doctor than proceeded to examine her cousin when he allegedly pulled off her niqaab and threw it to the ground.
“When I leaned to pick it up I couldn’t find it so I looked to my cousin on my right and she asked me ‘must I pick it up for you and she said hold on I’ll pick it up. And she bent to pick it up he came out of his consultation area and he asked her do you want me to fist you.’? She tried to take it lightheartedly but she was really disgusted and she just backed away and he picked up my niqaab and he threw it in the bin.”
Ismail says after taking out her niqaab from the bin, the doctor opened a copy of the Quran and lectured her about how the veil had no reference in the holy book and that she should be inclined to rather fulfilling a more academically rewarding life.
According to Ismail, the doctor also allegedly remarked that she was dressed very ‘blingy’ referring to her as a funeral undertaker in a black zozo and accused her of not doing enough for the community.
Ismail says she is seeking legal action against the doctor.
The doctor was not immediately available for comment at the time of publishing this story.
Listen to the interview with Faheema Ismail below.
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