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Muslim Women Sue in US Courts for Right to Wear Islamic Garb on the Job by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart December 18, 2014 Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. The Supreme Court has just agreed to hear a case concerning the rights of a woman to wear hijab, a headscarf, while working at Abercrombie and Fitch. This case began in 2008, in Tulsa, Oklahoma on behalf of then seventeen-year-old Samantha Elauf and is known asEqual Employment Opportunity Commission vs Abercrombie and Fitch Stores, Inc. France has banned the burqa (a head, face, and full body covering), as well as the hijab(headscarf); to do so in a religion-neutral way, they chose to ban all other religious insignia in public. In 2014, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the French ban. Other governments (Denmark, Germany, Turkey, Russia, China) have also banned the headscarf in school or in general. Yes, even Turkey– although, paradoxically, it has begun to force more children into religious schools where hijab is mandatory. In this case, it is our own federal government which has brought the suit against Abercrombie and Fitch, Inc. At least ten "friends of the court" briefs have been submitted by religious and civil rights organizations, including the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Commission, the American Jewish Committee, the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations aka the Muslim Brotherhood in America and the un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation lawsuit. » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Gender, Psychology & Law, Hijab & Burqa, Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid, The Islamic Veil
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