Muslim dentist 'told patient to wear a headscarf or go elsewhere' [Excerpts]
A muslim dentist made a woman wear Islamic dress as the
price of accepting her as an NHS patient, it is alleged.
Omer Butt is said to have told the patient that unless she
wore a headscarf she would have to find another practice.
It is claimed that the 31-year-old dentist asked to speak
to the woman in private after she turned up for an
appointment at his clinic in Bury.
According to the charges, he questioned her on whether she
was a Muslim and told her that if he was to treat her she
would have to wear Islamic dress.
He is also said to have read out a number of religious
rules to her.
He then told his nurse to give the patient her own
headscarf to wear, the accusation says.
Mr Butt is the older brother of former Islamic extremist
Hassan Butt, who once declared he had 'no problem' with
terror attacks on Britain and who said that September 11
"served the pleasure of Allah".
He has since recanted and now calls for all Muslims to
abandon violence.
The dentist also featured in immigration hearings involving
an asylum seeker suspected of providing a safe house for
Kamel Bourgass, an Algerian terrorist jailed for life for
stabbing PC Stephen Oake to death in Manchester in 2003.
(Steve Doughty and Jaya Narain, Daily Mail, UK, Tuesday, September 18, 2007)
