A WOMAN wearing a Muslim headscarf was told by a bus driver to take off her "mask" because it was against the law to wear it on board.
Australian-born mother of two Khadijah Ouararhni-Grech was wearing the pink floral headscarf known as a niqab when she tried to board the HillsBus vehicle at Merrylands Rd, Greystanes.
"As I was stepping on to the bus, the driver said: 'You can't get on the bus wearing your mask'," Ms Ouararhni-Grech told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.
After politely telling him that the niqab was not a mask, he insisted, saying: "Sorry, it is the law."
She said a number of passengers witnessed the incident.
"I told him it wasn't the law and he said 'You have to show me your face'," she said.
"There were others present, there was a lady with a baby who was also disgusted about the discrimination that was brought upon me.
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