The decision [at one university] includes the entire female academic staff, in addition to the medical staff and nurses who… teach classes and… lecture.
The decision was taken “based on a recent court ruling by Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court and following reports presented by managers of the university’s teaching hospitals and deans of faculties who claimed they frequently received complaints from students against having to deal with fully veiled female members of staff or workers at the university,” Ain Shams University President Mahmoud al-Metiny said in a statement.
He stressed that the decision was also made to ensure the rights of patients, and for the best interest of university work.
Let’s unswaddle that highlighted bit, okay? Frequent complaints from students about “having to deal with fully veiled…”
Naughty Islamophobes. Boo.
Okay, let’s move on and try to understand what possible objection people trying to learn things might have to invisible professors inside fanatics’ clothing. Or to doctors and nurses they can’t see. Hm… hm…