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Hijab well done

TICKET TO RIDE:A woman in a head scarf (above) rides normally at Coney Island yesterday, in contrast to the arrests made at Rye Playland (above).

TICKET TO RIDE:A woman in a head scarf (above) rides normally at Coney Island yesterday, in contrast to the arrests made at Rye Playland (above). (Tara Abadir)

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Six Flags Great Adventure has the biggest, fastest roller coasters in the world, and even that park doesn’t have the religious head-scarf ban that sparked a massive brawl at Rye Playland between Muslim guests and local cops.

“We don’t allow hats like baseball caps, but we do allow headdresses,” said Kristen Siebeneicher, spokeswoman for the massive amusement park in Jackson, NJ.

They even allow them on the monster ride Kingda Ka — which is 456 feet high and goes 128 mph — but “we tell our guests . . . that they must have their headdresses very tightly fastened,” Siebeneicher said.

Fifteen people were busted during a wild fistfight at Rye Playland in Westchester County on Tuesday afternoon after some hijab-wearing women — part of a group of 3,000 Muslim parkgoers, mainly from Brooklyn — were denied access to more than half the adult rides.

County Parks Deputy Commissioner Peter Tartaglia, whose agency runs the park, said the brawl began when frustrated Muslim families lining up for refunds got into a shoving match with each other.

A security guard trying to break things up touched one of the garbed women and her husband got furious.

“All of a sudden, everyone started running to the entrance . . . I just saw flailing arms and punching,” said one parkgoer from Teaneck, NJ.

The woman said her three sons wear yarmulkes and that they had been asked to take them off for certain rides as well.

“What’s the issue?” she shrugged. “They did not ask in a negative or offensive way.”

Tartaglia insisted that the head-scarf ban was “a black-and-white safety issue.”

“We look at every individual ride,” he said.

“It’s just common sense,” he said, noting that some of the rides go up to 40 mph.

A rep for Coney Island’s amusement rides said he wasn’t clear on his park’s policy, although a hijab-wearing woman was spotted riding a roller coaster there yesterday. Water parks such as Splish Splash in Long Island don’t ban the headgear, a representative said.

New York personal-injury lawyer Jim Reed said Playland is within its rights to ban the scarves as long as “it would promote greater safety and . . . as long as consistency is applied” so as not to discriminate.

Ali Shibah of Yonkers, who was part of the Muslim group, said, “I understand the point that this could be a safety issue.”

“But they have to learn how to deal with certain groups,” he said of the park. “You can’t tell a woman who’s been wearing this their whole life to take it off suddenly. This is a sensitivity issue.

“What would they say if the Virgin Mary wanted to go a ride — to take off her hijab?”

kate.sheehy@nypost.com