Berlin: In an apparent hate crime incident, a Muslim woman was thrown out of a restaurant in Bielefeld, western Germany for allegedly 'refusing to remove her veil'.
According to a report in the Independent, the woman was sitting in the busy beer garden of a Seekrug restaurant when Christian Schulz, the manager, approached her and asked her to remove the face veil.
However, the woman refused to do so, following which the manager asked her to leave the place.
Soon after the incident, the manager was criticised on the restaurant's Facebook page for his behavior. The page, has however, been deleted.
Although Schulz was criticised by many, some of the users supported him. "One man wrote, Right decision. You don't know who's under the hood. Woman? Man? Gunman?"
Another one commented, "At home, people can do what they want. But when you're in a different country you have to inform yourself about how things are and stick to it."
"It's very simple. Germany has its rules here as do other countries," wrote another.
Schulz also made himself clear that he had asked the woman to leave because the fear of full veil made other guests uncomfortable.
German laws do not restrict a person from wearing a full face veil or any particular dress code, but the states claim that they have the power to change laws locally.
