(NL Times) Angela Kempeners, a 36-year-old Limburg woman who was removed from an Arriva bus in Stein on Monday because she was wearing a niqab, is shaken by the event, but will continue to take the bus to work. “I felt just like a black person in the United States. This really hit me,” she said to newspaper Trouw.
As far as is known, Angela is the first niqab-wearing woman to be put off public transport since the Netherlands implemented its partial ban on face-covering clothing, often referred to as the burka ban, on August 1st. On Monday afternoon a bus driver in Stein asked her to get off the bus. She refused and the bus driver called the police. Twenty minutes later, a police officer arrived and asked her to go. She did.
