{"id":1481,"date":"2015-06-02T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2015-06-02T01:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T01:10:14","slug":"hijab-as-religious-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2015\/06\/02\/hijab-as-religious-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijab as Religious Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on Monday that retailer Abercrombie &amp; Fitch may have violated workplace discrimination law when it turned down a Muslim job applicant because she wore a hijab, even though her religious beliefs never came up in the interview,&#8221; writes Dave Jamieson in <I>The Huffington Post<\/I>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Abercrombie &amp; Fitch requires that its sales team dress &#8220;preppy&#8221; (like their merchandise), &#8220;Samantha Elauf, the job seeker at the center of the case, applied for a sales position at an Abercrombie children&#8217;s store in Oklahoma in 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/06\/01\/supreme-court-abercrombie_n_7464534.html\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court Rules Against Abercrombie &amp; Fitch In Discrimination Case<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on Monday that retailer Abercrombie &amp; Fitch may have violated workplace discrimination law when it turned down a Muslim job applicant because she wore a hijab, even though her religious beliefs never came up in the interview,&#8221; writes Dave Jamieson in The Huffington Post. 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