Religion and Politics

Muslim Cabbie Sues St. Louis, Taxicab Commission Over Clothing Rules

St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s Denise Hollinshed reports on a St. Louis cabdriver, Raja Awais Naeem, who is suing the city of St. Louis, the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission, and a private security company because he has been harassed for wearing traditional religious clothing. “Wearing my religious attire is not a fashion preference, it is part of my identity and a necessary part of my religious belief,” Naeem said in the affidavit he gave to the taxicab commission. 

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