Discussion: Justices Rule For Muslim Woman Denied Abercrombie & Fitch Job Over Headscarf

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I hate Abercrombie and pretty much everyone who wears their clothing, but I think they have a very good argument. A headscarf surely does not fit with the image of an obnoxious privileged preppy. If they want to make wearing Abercrombie clothing and only Abercrombie clothing a requirement for working there, I don’t see why they should be forced to make an exception for religious reasons.

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Abercrombie however insists it is still too dangerous for Muslim employees to possess unopened cans of soda.

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Justice Clarence Thomas [was the only Justice who] dissented.

Of course he was.

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So Antonin Scalia and John Roberts are imposing Sharia Law??? Somebody call Pamela Geller STAT!

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If she just would’ve followed the high jab with a left hook and quick kick to the corporate nuts, she’d have been fine,

@dumbsnark

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@leftflank: Abecrombie & Flinch?

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C’mon, this is America—Muslims have the same right to be obnoxious, privileged preppies as everybody else does.

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The court will back her up unless she wants equal pay or a medical plan that treats women as adults.

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Can’t be too good of an argument if only Thomas agrees with them :wink:

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I love this. The so called “religious right” is freaking out already and blaming this on the “left wing” Supreme Court.

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Good for her, but who the hell would actually want to work for Abercrombie & Fitch? That amount of douche over an extended period of time could turn even those with the strongest of will into a complete asshole.

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I find it odd that an American Muslim woman conservative enough to wear a full headscarf would want to work at a store like Abercrombie to begin with.

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“Preppy”? What was the last decade you were in Abercrombie? They dropped any hint of preppiness in their clothing at least twenty years ago.

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Abercrombie & Fitch could have won this case if they just said they had a sincerely held religious belief against headscarves. Silly them.

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Wait… Scalia wrote for the majority, and Clarence Thomas dissented?

Time to settle up your affairs, everyone. The end of the world is nigh.