Muslim doctors and nurses issued disposable sleeves

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OP - April 23, 2010, 06:47 PM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article7094227.ece

...At the end of March it emerged that female Muslim doctors and nurses are indeed to have special treatment on National Health Service wards. Non-Muslim staff in direct contact with patients must keep their arms bare to the elbow for important hygiene reasons — to make sure their sleeves do not become contaminated and so they can wash their hands thoroughly on ward rounds.

Their Muslim female counterparts, however, have been given a special dispensation by the Department of Health. Because some Muslims consider nudity of the female forearm to be immodest, Muslim doctors and nurses are to be issued with disposable sleeves, elasticated at wrist and elbow, to cover up the erogenous zone that lies between. This is absurd, unfair, wasteful and yet another example, as Chaplin and her episcopal supporters (and I) all feel, of the bias in favour of a vociferous religious minority...
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Reply #1 - April 23, 2010, 06:55 PM

The NHS can be quite absurd at times. This is the problem when you have too many meddling, overpaid managers and not enough real medical staff.

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Reply #2 - April 23, 2010, 08:41 PM

When I was first studying Islam I was sure I came across a hadith, or it may have been a fatwa, stating that women who needed to work and whose jobs could not be performed with long sleeves were permitted to uncover their arms up to the elbow while working and while it was necessary. I later mentioned it to one of my Muslim friends and she said that was the most ridiculous thing she ever heard and that women are never allowed to uncover their arms. So I dropped it, and now I have absolutely no idea where I read it, but I distinctly remember it. Has anyone else heard of it?

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Reply #3 - April 23, 2010, 08:48 PM

Can't say I've heard that before, Luthiel.
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