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"Muslim student claims osteopathic school kicked her out unfairly
by Cheryl Caswell Daily Mail staff
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Muslim woman has filed a lawsuit against the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and its Board of Governors, saying she was kicked out unfairly.
Iram Qureshi of Dublin, Ohio, is asking for a restraining order against the Lewisburg medical school so she can attend classes that begin next week while she appeals the decision.
Qureshi said she graduated with honors from Ohio State University in 2005 and enrolled at the osteopathic school the following August.
In her complaint, she said she was treated badly at the school from the beginning. She requested for religious reasons that she be assigned to work only with females during a lab that required chest and pelvic manipulation.
That request was denied, even though the president of Islamic Medical Association of North America spoke to the osteopathic school's associate dean on her behalf.
The same request was granted to other female students, she said.
Qureshi said the school has been "extremely unyielding" towards her and she encountered harassment and discrimination from faculty, staff and students. She said other students were "bullish and threatening" towards her when she notified faculty that some of them violated rules by obtaining an exam from a previous year.
The school also erred when it allowed her grades to be posted publicly, she said.
On June 20, Qureshi received a letter from Olen Jones Jr., the school of medicine's president, notifying of her dismissal. In the letter, Jones said her dismissal was recommended because she had had to repeat her first year and had failed two "systems" in her second year.
Qureshi said in her lawsuit that the dismissal did not allow time for her to appeal that decision in time to enroll in the next classes that begin June 30. She is asking for a preliminary injunction.
The case was filed in Kanawha Circuit Court and will be heard by Judge Tod Kaufman.
Dr. Jones did not return a phone call asking for a comment on the lawsuit."
I am interested in hearing peoples' thoughts:
1. Do you think its fair for a Muslim student to request certain sex lab partners when OPP to sensitive areas is to be performed?
2. Do you think this will bring a lot of bad press to the school? Or did you think that the school had a right to deny her religious request? (I believe the school does grant such requests for other Muslim females, but why she was denied specifically is quite peculiar and does make a case for her claim they were unfair to her, translating to lots of money for her)
3. Can someone perform medicine adequatly with such restrictions based on their religion?
"Muslim student claims osteopathic school kicked her out unfairly
by Cheryl Caswell Daily Mail staff
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Muslim woman has filed a lawsuit against the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and its Board of Governors, saying she was kicked out unfairly.
Iram Qureshi of Dublin, Ohio, is asking for a restraining order against the Lewisburg medical school so she can attend classes that begin next week while she appeals the decision.
Qureshi said she graduated with honors from Ohio State University in 2005 and enrolled at the osteopathic school the following August.
In her complaint, she said she was treated badly at the school from the beginning. She requested for religious reasons that she be assigned to work only with females during a lab that required chest and pelvic manipulation.
That request was denied, even though the president of Islamic Medical Association of North America spoke to the osteopathic school's associate dean on her behalf.
The same request was granted to other female students, she said.
Qureshi said the school has been "extremely unyielding" towards her and she encountered harassment and discrimination from faculty, staff and students. She said other students were "bullish and threatening" towards her when she notified faculty that some of them violated rules by obtaining an exam from a previous year.
The school also erred when it allowed her grades to be posted publicly, she said.
On June 20, Qureshi received a letter from Olen Jones Jr., the school of medicine's president, notifying of her dismissal. In the letter, Jones said her dismissal was recommended because she had had to repeat her first year and had failed two "systems" in her second year.
Qureshi said in her lawsuit that the dismissal did not allow time for her to appeal that decision in time to enroll in the next classes that begin June 30. She is asking for a preliminary injunction.
The case was filed in Kanawha Circuit Court and will be heard by Judge Tod Kaufman.
Dr. Jones did not return a phone call asking for a comment on the lawsuit."
I am interested in hearing peoples' thoughts:
1. Do you think its fair for a Muslim student to request certain sex lab partners when OPP to sensitive areas is to be performed?
2. Do you think this will bring a lot of bad press to the school? Or did you think that the school had a right to deny her religious request? (I believe the school does grant such requests for other Muslim females, but why she was denied specifically is quite peculiar and does make a case for her claim they were unfair to her, translating to lots of money for her)
3. Can someone perform medicine adequatly with such restrictions based on their religion?