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» No Hijabs At Abercrombie
From the AP: "A Muslim civil rights group has filed a federal complaint on behalf of a Muslim teenager who alleges she was denied a job at Abercrombie & Fitch because she wears a hijab, or head scarf. The complaint, filed at the Oklahoma City office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claims that a district manager for the clothing store at Woodland Hills Mall told the girl in late June that the head covering, worn by observant Muslim women, didn't fit the chain's image. 'Employers have a clear legal duty to accommodate the religious practices of their workers,' said Razi Hashmi, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Oklahoma, which helped the girl file the complaint. 'To deny someone employment because of apparent religious bias goes against long-standing American traditions of tolerance and inclusion.'" |