[BenLurkin]

Hijabs are offensive.

Anyone who wears one is being rude and insensitive.

[Shadow44]

I’m sure she was devastated not getting her dream job. /s

[Gaffer]

Apparently, the store chain didn’t have to “ask” her about her religion. She was WEARING it. I would not have hired her either.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I guess she was trying to make the move up from Kiosk worker to the Store Front. I thought I recognized her but then again all berka’s look alike.

[Star Traveler]

If a job you take requires you to wear a CLOWN SUIT as part of the job ... then you’re going to be wearing a clown suit. That’s just the way it goes on a job. You wear (or don’t wear) what is in compliance with the “look” that the job wants to present to the public.

[GeronL]

Companies have a right to hire and fire on whatever basis they want, IMO

[Hulka]

Didn't wear it during the interview but now says she MUST wear It “for religious reason's”. . .what?. . .is she arguing religion requires her to wear it while working but NOT when interviewing for a job? Wait. . .what? SET-UP!!! Trouble-maker!!

By the way, muslimes are always telling us the wearing of that rag/bag over their head is not required by islam, that it is a choice. . .ergo, NOT a religious requirement.

[OKSooner]

C'mon, we all know how this is going to turn out.

This chick is going to own that Abercrombie store.

[caligatrux]

I wish some Muslim baker somewhere would refuse to make the wedding cake of a gay couple on religious grounds. I would love to see the courts deal with that.

I mean, its clear that Muslims are afforded greater religious rights than Christians. I'd just like to see how the courts would fall over themselves and contort the law to avoid having to admit it.

[cuban leaf]

The Hajib is no more religious than an empty offering plate.

[caligatrux]

Reading deeper into the article, this makes less and less sense.

The article says that Abercrombie "had previously made accommodations — in fact, even for headscarves and yarmulkes" in the past.

So is the lawsuit really about forcing Abercrombie to let employees wear headscarves for religious reasons? I mean, it looks like they already do that.

And I don't think Abercrombie would fight this all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court just to make a point, especially if they have already made the exception for other employees. Its too expensive and too bad for PR to for Abercrombie not to just settle.

There must be some technical legal point that is really driving this. The issue of whether the employee has to affirmatively claim a religious exemption, perhaps. Or something the author just missed.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s almost over, though. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Wednesday and render a decision some time this summer on whether Elauf was a victim of religious discrimination.

No because there is no religious requirement to wear the hijab to work in a Western establishment.

It's a part of the modern Islamist revolution. Middle Eastern countries in the 1960s didn't even have it to mandatory degree of today.

[moehoward]

Only thing that would make this better is if the store was in the Mall of America...

[Roman_War_Criminal]

“outgoing and promotes diversity.”

Once again, the sick cancer of “diversity” rears it’s ugly head.

How many lawsuits? How many diversity classes (re-education)?How many rapes? How many murders until Americans realize they are being targeted directly by an onslaught of feral 3rd worlders who will eventually replace them and their children?

[falcon99]

Why is it that the government considers this possible religious discrimination because this person is following her religious beliefs and is not getting a job because of it. Yet, the government does not consider it religious discrimination when a baker follows her religious beliefs and the government wants to force her to provide a specific service for someone that violates her belief? That is the liberal world for you.

[Lady Heron]

Slave garb is not good advertisement for any retail store if they want women to shop there.

[bus man]

Kind of hard for me to pick sides on this one. On the one hand, I don’t particularly care for Muslims, and I think that having one as an employee is just asking for trouble. But on the other hand, if the girl had been wearing a cross and had been refused employment, I’d be furious at the blatant religious discrimination. But on still another hand, I do believe that companies should have the right to have their employees present themselves in whatever way the company deems proper for their business needs. And on yet another hand, I can’t stand Abercrombie & Fitch and I would laugh gleefully if their business were wrecked.

I think I’ll just toss my hands into the air on this one.

[Eaker]

Why the Sam Hell would anyone ever consider hiring a muslim under any circumstances?