Indian restaurant shut down over banning entry to woman wearing hijab – Middle East Monitor

Authorities within the Bahraini capital, Manama, have shut down an Indian restaurant after it allegedly denied entry to a lady sporting the hijab.

The incident prompted outrage after video footage of restaurant workers stopping a veiled lady within the Muslim-majority nation went viral on social media.

On Friday, in a widely-shared video the good friend of the lady in query defined what occurred. “The restaurant, “Lanterns” is telling her you can’t enter since you are sporting a hijab. Are you able to think about?” the lady mentioned. “The eating places shouldn’t be making most of these selections, as a result of we’re in a Muslim nation.”

In keeping with Bahraini newspaper, the Each day Tribune, the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibition Authority (BTEA) has since launched an investigation into the matter.

BTEA has requested “all tourism shops to adjust to rules and keep away from implementing insurance policies that violate the legal guidelines of the Kingdom”, BTEA said, including that “We reject all actions that discriminate towards folks, particularly relating to their nationwide id.”

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The Lantern restaurant’s responsibility supervisor has additionally been taken into custody; the restaurant additionally confirmed that he was suspended. On Saturday, Lanterns responded to the social media backlash, by issuing an announcement on its Instagram web page explaining that “Everyone seems to be welcome to Lanterns, which is the way it has been for greater than 35 years that we have now been serving all nationalities within the lovely Kingdom of Bahrain”.

“Lanterns is a spot for everybody to return take pleasure in with their households and really feel at dwelling. On this occasion, a mistake has been made by a supervisor who’s now being suspended as this doesn’t signify who we’re,” the assertion mentioned, including that clients will have the ability to dine on the restaurant freed from cost, as a goodwill gesture.

The incident comes amid an Indian courtroom’s choice, earlier this month, to uphold a controversial ban on the hijab inside instructional establishments within the southern state of Karnataka, which is ruled by the Hindu hardliner BJP get together. The ban sparked indignant protests from Muslim girls and women.

Nonetheless, Mariam Naji the good friend of the lady barred from Lanterns disputed claims on social media that the supervisor was an Indian Hindu, however, fairly, a British man named “Lloyd” and urged others to not unfold misinformation.

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