When my brother taught math grad student 40 years ago, there were a lot of Jews in his classes, men and women He hadn't been in a place that had a lot of Jews before, and both the kippas and the scarves were a new thing for him to see.
You're absolutely right. That idiot Talisker hates scarves. He's more like a liberal than he realizes, with the symbolic deflection. Lots of women wear scarves, the Muslims didn't invent them. My sisters all wore scarves, back in the 1950s/1960s when putting rollers in their hair was popular, and to keep their hair-sprayed heads intact in the wind. This guy is probably a millennial born after that time and doesn't know any better.
As for my wife, it was heart-breaking to see her cry as her hair fell away after chemo and radiation treatments. Her doctor's waiting room was full of women wearing scarves, and none were Muslim. She was in better shape after selecting some scarves and being able to go out without embarrassment of being bald. She's in maintenance mode now, getting chemo every few months to prevent flare-ups of cancer, and her hair has grown back.
When my brother taught math grad student 40 years ago, there were a lot of Jews in his classes, men and women He hadn't been in a place that had a lot of Jews before, and both the kippas and the scarves were a new thing for him to see.