Bolivia: Nurses forced to wear veil
Semanario Verdad Latinoamericana reports that nurses in a Bolivian hospital are forced to wear a hijab veil at their jobs.
The article, Bolivia: enfermeras son obligadas a llevar velo, says that state newspaper Cambio (link to their website here, but no link to their report on the hospital) reported that following a donation of $1.2 million USdollars by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit Wednesday last week, the nurses at a hospital in El Alto have to wear a veil due to conditions set by Iran.
The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean will be up later today.
Tags: Fausta's blog, Sharia law
November 30th, 2009 at 10:51 am
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November 30th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
[...] As Rick points out, Brazil’s attitude in this instance (not to mention Spain’s) has been particularly disheartening. Obama shoveled hundreds of millions of US dollars into Brazil’s offshore drilling projects–which, if I were an environmentalist, I would claim threatens biodiversity in a way that no US project could. Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad has been touring South America, celebrating connections with such Zelaya supporters as Hugo Chavez, and talking about exporting enriched uranium to some of their allies. What Ahmadinejad intends to do is to open an American front, Marxist, Jihadist, whatever, against the US to counter the US presence abutting Iran in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Taliban control of opium production mirrors the control of drug-lord militia/Marxists in Central and South America. Bolivia, having accepted aid from Ahmadinejad, has instructed nurses at the benefitting hospital that they must wear the hijab, as that was a condi… [...]
November 30th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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November 30th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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November 30th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
WTF? If this is true, its shocking! Why didn’t they tell that little pig Anmadinnerjacket to fuck off?
December 1st, 2009 at 9:43 am
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December 7th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Apparently it was only for the inauguration while Assmadinejad was there… still absolutely ridiculous.
http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/nacional/20091126/el-uso-de-velo-en-un-hospital-irani-causa-polemica-en-el_47179_81843.html