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Muslim Women Permitted To Have License Photos Retaken


Last Update: 7/12/2007 3:43 pm
Two Muslim women in Cincinnati were given permission to have their driver's license pictures retaken while wearing their Islamic headscarves, after first being told they had to remove them.

The Cincinnati office of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations Ohio chapter, said employees of the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles initially required the women to remove their headscarves, or hijab, for their license photographs, despite regulations requiring an exemption for religious head coverings.

As of Thursday, they were permitted to have a new photo taken with their headscarves on.

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