Discrimination? Discrimination happens all the time.
I cannot enter a supermarket in Vermont with Bare Feet because of health concerns of our State government. Yet it is part of my culture to go barefoot in the summer.Woe is me, I am discriminated against! ( Yech! I)
The question is whether discrimination is illegal.
Look, the fact is that we are too accomodating towards a culture that has proven that its basic tenants seek to destroy the very humanistic values you espouse, by using them against you.
That is idiocy, not understanding.
Go to Riyadh, and try to walk down the street in a halter top and see how much understanding you get.
Like we are : Oh the poor witch from the tale Sleeping Beauty, she wants to pick apples in our orchard! Even though we know many of her witch friends poison these apples she gives to them, we understand her culture and want her to change and be a nice person, besides, she is unlikely ever to poison an apple again, not all witches are the same. There are moderate witches too, most of them are you know.......blah, blah, blah. ( Yech! II)
When Muslims come to America they need to become Americans politically and culturally, that is the cost of the religious freedom we all enjoy. Enough of this psycho-social babble about accomodating the Islamic nation.
If they want to manifest the cultural preferences of purdah and sharia, they can do it at home like all other Americans do in equivalent circumstances.
First of all: "tenets." (I can't help myself. I'm a teacher.)
And second, if I preemptively abandon my "humanistic" values, I lose. But I choose not to lose. I choose not to abandon my "values." I choose to treat people --- yes, even Muslims --- as fairly as I can. It has something to do with the way I was raised. You can say "humanistic" if you want, but my choice of adjectives would run toward "Christian," "Western," "American."
If the Seattle Dept. of Parks and Recreation chooses to accommodate a couple of privacy-seeking mamas in lady-of-Fatima swimsuits, just as it accommodates the nudist groups (which it does) I don't see how that constitutes a threat to American National Security or Western Civilization.
This is not the imposition of Shari'a in Seattle. In fact, maybe the gals'll get enough physical strength and confidence out of the deal to look their husbands right in the eye and say, "Bermuda shorts, baby --- and I don't mean maybe."
I'm there to cheer 'em on.