What are you smoking? How does a store clerk know “in advance” the intent of someone who enters the store with their face covered over? When a judge decides that private businesses have the obligation to serve anyone with a face covering you are going to see a lot more robberies because now the crooks will dress like Muslims to gain entry to a business without being suspected of intending foul play. And the cameras will not be able to see their faces. And you will not be permitted to regard them with suspicion until it is too late. Should the store clerk have to wait until the person with the face covering pulls a weapon out before stating that the person will not be served? What this all amounts to is a constant erosion in private property rights. More and more businesses and individuals are being prosecuted for exercising their Constitutional rights to make their own decisions as to who or what they choose to associate with on their own property. Now the government and the law enforcement community under the guise of preventing discrimination (yeah we are human beings and are the only species on the planet that has the ability to discriminate and there is a reason for that) can barge into your home or business and make you act a certain way.
—How does a store clerk know “in advance” the intent of someone who enters the store with their face covered over?—
He doesn’t. I’m talking about the intent she demonstrated when she tried to hand the clerk the *cash* to buy gas. And worse, even when the police were there.
What she (the clerk) should have done is act like she thought a burglary was about to be committed when she saw the person walk up to the booth wearing a burka. IOW, pull out the shotgun.
Can you imagine a “multicultural” country where one culture believes in covering women from head to toe while another believes women should never wear more than sandals? Wonder if there would be much social friction. ;-)
Fact is, even religious freedom has its limits within a free society. It’s why a religious group cannot enjoy snorting coke as part of their ritual, and why, in a society where identification through facial features, one cannot simply walk around with their head completely covered up and expect to do business with strangers.
And burkas are not religious. They are cultural.