Ticket writer wins right to his turban
The
NYPD improperly barred a traffic enforcement agent who practices the Sikh faith from wearing a turban on the job, according to a ruling yesterday.
Jasjit Singh Jaggi, who quit rather than violate tenets of his religion, should be put back to work - turban and all, Administrative Law Judge Donna Merris recommended. The
NYPD was guilty of religious discrimination against
Jaggi by trying to force him to wear a regulation white cap, she said. In an August 2002 resignation letter,
Jaggi explained, "It is very humiliating and depressing for me to work every day in this hybrid and insulting appearance of a 'cap' instead of a turban. "No one in the department has ever objected to my uncut beard, which is also against the regulations. "The chief reason practicing Sikhs wear turbans is to show love and obedience to the wishes of the faith's founders. Mills said the
NYPD failed to prove its chief argument that failure to wear the regulation white, eight-point cap would make
Jaggi unrecognizable as a traffic agent and might subject him to racist remarks and assaults.
article taken from
www.nydailynews.com
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seorang sikh mempertahankan pemakaian serbannya....apa yang terjadi pada umat islam di Malaysia?kerajaan negeri johor (kerajaan yang pemimpin dan majoriti menganut agama islam) sendiri melarang pemakaian serban dan jubah?kalau cam tu aku kerja kat gomen kat johor pakai serban then kene buang pastu gi suruhanjaya hak asasi manusia saman gomen johor leh dapat duit banyak2!! Perkara 11 perlembagaan Persekutuan menjamin hak dan kebebasan rakyat untuk menganut dan mengamalkan ajaran agama masing-masing??bulls**t! pastu kerajaan negeri lain pulak mengharamkan pemakaian kopiah putih kepada kakitangan kerajaan!what is this? this is the malaysian government today...how sad we as mulim today in muslim country cannot practice deen freely....
p/s seumur hidup aku tak pernah tengok polis trafik islam pakai serban masa jalankan tugas....hanya polis sikh sahaja.....