A region in Italy wants to ban veiled women from being treated at hospitals

[Heddi]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/08/a-region-in-italy-wants-to-ban-veiled-women-from-getting-treated-at-hospitals/?utm_term=.f7603207351e

But in the northern region of Liguria, local officials are considering a different strategy, right in time for International Women's Day: banning women in Islamic face veil from hospitals and other public institutions.

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"If a woman turns up to the emergency room wearing a burqa, what is the doctor meant to do?" Paita told the Local. "Tell her to go elsewhere?"
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The fight underscores a much bigger challenge in Italy -- figuring out how the country's 1.4 million Muslims fit into its broader culture. Islam is not recognized as an official religion (although as The Washington Post has pointed out, that may change soon). The result is a lot of little indignities: It's very hard to build mosques (there are only eight in the country), Islamic weddings have no legal value and Muslim workers aren’t entitled to take days off for religious holidays. At the same time, 69 percent of Italians say they hold negative views toward Islam, the highest of any European country.
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I wonder if veiled nuns will receive the same bigoted treatment?

[Warpy]

1. If there are nuns in Liguria

this one will go down amidst gales of laughter.